Young boy killed by car in Auburn

A SHATTERED young mother watched helplessly as her 17-month-old son’s life ebbed away in a traffic tragedy despite the valiant efforts of emergency crews and a gallant student nurse first at the scene.Little Shreyan Thapa was just a few hundred metres from his Auburn home when he was struck by a car on Marion St Thursday morning in a collision which left him with fatal head injuries.The toddler was walking on the footpath with his great-grandmother as Shreyan’s mother Rojita studied for an English exam.