‘Jake said: Mammy, I don’t want to die’

A mother who lost her six-year-old son after he was hit by a car told how her little boy said, in the moments after the accident: "Mammy, I don’t want to die."

‘Jake said: Mammy, I don’t want to die’

Jake Brennan lost his life on Thursday night after being struck by a car while he was playing outside his house in a cul de sac in the Lintown Hall estate on the edge of Kilkenny City.

His mother, Roseann, said yesterday that Jake had been conscious for a few seconds after he was hit by the car at about 6.30pm, but had suffered catastrophic internal injuries, and was pronounced dead in St Luke’s Hospital.

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