{"id":800577,"date":"2026-10-12T21:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800577\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T21:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:36:10","slug":"llanfairfechan-boy-died-after-being-hit-by-van-while-playing-on-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800577\/","title":{"rendered":"Llanfairfechan boy died after being hit by van while playing on bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A six-year-old boy died after falling into the road and being hit by a van while playing on his bike, an inquest has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harrison Jones had been playing with a friend when he fell into the road outside his home in Llanfairfechan at about 17:30 BST on 1 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Denbighshire Coroner&#8217;s Court heard he was struck by a passing Ford Transit tipper van.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A post-mortem examination found Harrison died from severe head injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John Gittins, senior coroner for north Wales east and central, said the death required further investigation and adjourned the inquest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a tribute on a fundraising page launched to support his family, Harrison was described as a &#8220;cheeky chappy, full of character with a personality that could light up a room&#8221;, and who had been &#8220;loved more deeply than words could ever express&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The GoFundMe fundraiser was launched by Kate Jones to help cover Harrison&#8217;s funeral and memorial costs, as well as household bills and essential expenses while his parents take time away from work to grieve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are no words that can truly describe the heartbreak and devastation his parents, sisters and our whole family are experiencing,&#8221; Jones said on the fundraiser page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A six-year-old boy died after falling into the road and being hit by a van while playing on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-800577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}