Rebekah Le Gal (39) denies one count of causing death by dangerous driving after her black VW Transporter hit Clinton Pringle as he crossed Tunnell Street into the park.
The boy, who was on holiday in the Island with his mother Stacey, died three days later in Southampton Hospital from ‘catastrophic, non-survivable injuries’.
Outlining the case Solicitor General Mark Temple, prosecuting, said the defendant read a message from her son asking for his grandmother’s phone number ‘one minute and 25 seconds’ before a bystander called 999 after the boy had been fatally injured by the van.
The Crown say that phone records show that Mrs Le Gal replied to her son’s text with the grandmother’s phone number 12 seconds after she had read the message.
Mr Temple said seconds before Clinton was hit the boy’s mother Stacey and his aunt Melissa Anderson ‘screamed’ and waved their arms to try to alert the driver to the fact he was crossing the road.
It is also the Crown’s case the Mrs Le Gal was driving dangerously because she was using Tunnell Street as through road when it is for access to premises only.
The trial, which is expected to last five days, continues.
Full report in Tuesday’s JEP.
