Lithgow crash: Tragedy as 13-year-old boy dies in horrific collision on the Great Western Highway

A 13-year-old boy has died in a horror smash on the Great Western Highway, as his family remember him as a ‘sweet, funny kid’.

Korbin Reid, 13, was with a 24-year-old man when they were both struck by a vehicle in Bowenfels, approximately 3km south of Lithgow, in NSW’s Central Tablelands at 6pm on Friday.

Bystanders performed CPR on the boy until paramedics arrived and rushed him to Lithgow Hospital in a critical condition.

He was airlifted to Westmead Children’s Hospital where he later died, NSW Police said. 

Tributes flowed for the teenager on social media, with his heartbroken mother saying she ‘missed her baby boy’.

‘Mum and dad love you as well as your sisters and brothers,’ she wrote.

Another family remembered him as ‘such a sweet, funny kid’. 

Bystanders performed CPR on the boy until paramedics arrived and rushed him to Lithgow Hospital in a critical condition

‘Rest in peace, forever young Korbin,’ wrote another.

The 24-year-old man was treated at the scene for minor injuries.

‘The driver – a 45-year-old man – was uninjured,’ a spokesperson for NSW Police said. 

‘He was taken to Lithgow Hospital for mandatory testing.’

A GoFundMe page, which was set up by family members to ‘ease costs for a beautiful service’, has so far raised over $4,000.