A teenage boy has died after running away from a house he was pranking with his friends, moments after running from the house he was struck by a taxi and suffered unsurvivable injuries.
Morgan Ackerman aged 16 was playing a game called ‘Knock, Knock Ginger’ with two of his friends in Barry South Wales.
Ackerman had banged on the window of a house and ran down the pavement followed by his friends at 10.30pm before they ran out into the road between two parked cars.
In a statement read out at Cardiff Coroner’s Court, one of his friends said: “I saw Morgan start to run out into the road.
“I could now see there was a white and black taxi coming towards Morgan. IÂ tried to warn him. He had not seen the taxi coming.”
Ackerman sadly died the following day at the University Hospital Wales, Cardiff, suffering from a “devastating” brain injury.
