the wrong turningWas delivering eggs today to Balmoral Castle in the works van and got the the gate where the coppers checked my ID etc. Seeing as id never been in the grounds I...
"A 10-year-old boy who died after being hit on a zebra crossing had only just returned from holiday in America, it has emerged.
Austin Curtis Meshke from Cadoxton in Barry, was with another boy at the crossing when he was hit by a Ford Transit van on Wednesday evening.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident on Barry Road.
more power to their elbowIt looks like it's down to the kids to enforce the rules when ignorant car drivers flout the rules and endanger people. Shouldn't all residential back streets be designated as "play streets" where children...
Hours earlier the youngster had returned with his mother and brother from the US, where his father lives.
Austin lived with his mother, Bronwen, and 14-year-old brother Warren. The family had spent the school holidays with the boys' father, Ted.
Mrs Meshke said: "Austin was a happy-go-lucky child and the whole family is absolutely devastated by what has happened.
"He was loved by all his family and friends and will be badly missed by everyone. We are just completely shocked.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the crash
"Austin was just like any other child who loved his Gameboy and playing football with his friends.
"We would ask anyone who has any information to come forward and tell the police."
Police said Austin, a pupil Ysgol Gymraeg Gwaun Y Nant, in the Vale of Glamorgan, died after being struck by a white Ford Transit van at around 1925 BST.
Boy's trainers
Austin and the other 10 year old had waited on the side of the road to use the crossing, in Barry Road near its junction with East Walk and Buttrills Road.
The other boy crossed the road, but Austin waited and waved forward a vehicle, which police have yet to identify, so it could go past him.
Austin then walked on to the crossing but was hit by the van.
Officers want to speak to the driver of the vehicle which Austin summoned over the crossing - it had been travelling in the opposite direction to the van, police have now said.
They also want to speak to a person who retrieved a pair of trainers from the scene and handed them to staff at a nearby Spar shop. "
