The boy, reportedly killed two weeks ahead of his bar mitvah, was one of six people in the car when it crashed on the way to France.
The boy was in a car which veered off the E40 highway in Belgium A 12-year-old British boy has died in a car crash in Belgium just two weeks before he was due to celebrate his bar mitzvah with his twin brother, reports have said. The youngster was one of six people travelling in a UK-registered BMW X5 as it lost control travelling towards the French border at around 1am on Wednesday.
Several ambulances and firefighters accompanied the emergency response. It’s believed paramedics managed to resuscitate the boy before taking him to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. The other passengers in the car were said to be his parents and three siblings. One reportedly suffered severe but non-life threatening injuries, while the other all sustained lighter injuries.
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