Four-year-old boy hit and killed by a car in North St Marys is identified

A four-year-old who died after being hit by a car has been remembered as the ‘sweetest, most kind hearted boy’.

Ace was hit by a Ford sedan on Glossop Street at North St Marys, in western Sydney, at about 12.05pm on Monday. 

NSW Ambulance paramedics treated him at the scene, but he died on the way to hospital.

The male driver was taken to Nepean Hospital for mandatory testing and a crime scene was established.

A friend of Ace’s family launched a GoFundMe hours after the incident to help his heartbroken parents and older sister cover funeral costs.

‘Ace was the sweetest, most kind hearted boy, who loved to play with his cars and dinosaurs and spend time with the people who he loved,’ the fundraising page reads.

‘His bright light will not be forgotten and the world seems a darker without him.’

She added Ace will be the first thing his family ‘think of when they wake up and the last they remember before falling to sleep’.

NSW Ambulance paramedics treated him at the scene, but he died on the way to hospital

Ace’s aunt posted an image to social media of the young boy smiling and playing in a ball pit just before midnight on Monday.

She said the family are ‘absolutely heartbroken … and our world has been shattered’ in the post tributing the four-year-old.

‘Aunty loves you soo much little man, fly high buddy forever in our hearts,’ she wrote.

An investigation has been launched into the incident.

Video of the scene showed detectives at a blond brick property on the street.

The crash happened moments before a separate incident where a 12-year-old boy was run over by a car in a driveway on Greenacre Road at Greenacre at 12.30pm.

He sustained leg injuries and blood loss and was rushed to Westmead Children’s Hospital in a stable condition.

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