Tributes to ‘beloved’ boy, 11, tragically killed in Boxing Day motorway crash
Alfie Mario Aiello-Da Cruz was killed and the 61-year-old driver was seriously injuried when their car hit a slip road barrier on the M3.
An 11-year-old boy killed in a car crash on Boxing Day gave his loved ones ‘joy, love and happiness’, his family have said.
Alfie Mario Aiello-Da Cruz, from Fair Oak, Hampshire, was killed when the Nissan Qashqai he was travelling in hit a slip road barrier near Winchester on the M3.
The driver, a 61-year-old man, was left with potentially life-changing injuries.
Two other passengers, a 48-year-old woman and a girl aged nine, were treated for minor injuries.
Alfie’s mother and father, Anna and Marcos, and sister, Chloe, said: ‘Our beloved Alfie. We were so lucky to have you in our lives, giving us brightness, joy, love and happiness.
‘Now that you have been taken away from us so suddenly and at such a young age, just 11 years old, we are going to miss you forever.
‘We will carry in our hearts your love for all of our lives, until our last breath, and we hope that one day we will meet in God’s heaven to give you the last hug that we wished to have given to you before you left.
‘We love you and always will.’
Detective Sergeant Mark Furse, of Hampshire Constabulary’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit, said: ‘This is a tragic incident, in which an 11-year-old boy has sadly and so suddenly lost his life.
‘We are working hard to understand the exact circumstances, and I want to appeal to anyone with information, particularly anyone with dash cam footage of the vehicle, to make contact with us, and allow us to piece together this young boy’s final moments.
‘Anyone with information which may assist us should call 101, quoting the reference 44210516070.’
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