A new video has emerged of a seven-year-old boy being mowed down by a speeding car in Kraaifontein last weekend.
Little Noah Hattingh was hit by a passing car while a yellow BMW was spinning in a parking lot on Sunday, 19 November.
The boy was laid to rest on Saturday, and a member of the Scottsdene Spinners Car Club burnt rubber at the funeral to pay tribute to Noah.
Children of Petunia Primary School, where he was in Grade 2, sang a sad hymn with tears streaming down their little faces.
EMOTIONAL: Petunia Primary School learners sing hymn
A convoy of BMWs accompanied the coffin from the Apostolic Church in Eerstelaan, Kraaifontein, to the local cemetery.
Noah’s heartbroken stepmom said: “I can’t believe I’m saying goodbye to you today. Mommy and Daddy will never see you again. My child that meant so much to me is gone, but like the pastor said, God came to pluck his loveliest flower and we accept that.”
Noah was among dozens of adults and children watching members of the Scottsdene Spinners Car Club performing in a parking lot.
MOWED DOWN: Noah Hattingh
A new video posted on Facebook by Michael Meintjies, from the other side of the parking area, shows the yellow BMW spinning for a minute before a red Nissan Sentra speeds up the road and hits Noah who was walking in the street, sending him flying through the air.
As a crowd gathers around Noah the yellow car stops beside him and the Nissan also returns. The occupants quickly load Noah into the red car before speeding off to the hospital, where the boy was declared dead on arrival.
BURIAL: Noah Hattingh's body carried by mense at Kraaifontein Cemetery
The yellow BMW then continues performing, much to the outrage and disgust of people commenting on Meintjies’ post.
Gerrit wrote: “That is how cheap life has become. Carry on spinning like nothing has happened.”
Police are investigating a case of culpable homicide, confirmed Captain FC van Wyk.
Meanwhile, the driver of the red car has made contact with Noah’s family.
The man’s family said they were not ready to speak to the media yet, but his father added that his son was heartbroken about Noah’s death and didn’t “run away” as people believed, but took the boy to hospital.
Jacobus Jacobs of the Proudly Scottsdene Facebook page on Sunday said when he asked the Scottsdene Spinners why the driver of the yellow BMW continued doing doughnuts, “they had no answer”.