British boy, 12, dies after car veers off motorway and flips over 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.
He was a pupil at an independent Orthodox Jewish school in north London and was due to celebrate his bar mitzvah in two weeks, according to The Jewish Chronicle.
There were no witnesses to the late-night crash, which police were only alerted to due to the car’s automated emergency system.
The car is said to have veered off the E40 highway and landed on its roof on a grass verge.
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.
Local police reportedly believe poor weather conditions and ‘unadjusted speed’ could have been responsible.
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