The father of one of three Hasmonean Boys students targeted in a ramming attempt last month has revealed his terror when he found out how close his son was to being hit.
The incident happened on the junction of Holders Hill Road and the A1 in Finchley, near to school, on April 20, and is being investigated as a hate crime by police.
The father, who wanted both himself and his son to remain anonymous, said that his 14-year-old son came home after the incident and immediately said: “‘I’ve got something I need to tell you’.”
“The car was waiting at the traffic lights on the A1 inside lane and the boys were waiting at the crossing, standing on the edge of the road,” the father explained. “This car screeched off from the traffic lights and drove straight at them, mounting the kerb.
Within seconds, in what the father called a “knee-jerk reaction”, the boys grabbed each other and jumped back to avoid the oncoming car.
“My son told me that if they didn’t jump back they would have definitely been hit as the front of the car ended up on the bit of pavement they had been standing. The driver drove at their legs.”
“They looked at each other thinking, ‘what just happened?’. Then they had this moment where they recovered ourselves.
“One of the other boys said, ‘maybe the driver lost control’, but my son said that due to how the car immediately sped off, and the fact it was a straight stretch of road and they had been waiting at the lights, there was no way it could have been an accident.”
The father said that his son was left shaken, but his bus journey home gave him the chance to calm down and compose himself.
The incident was reported to the police as well as the Community Security Trust (CST).
The father commended the swift response of the police, saying that they called him just three minutes after he submitted the online report.
He also said that his son is now doing OK a few weeks on from the ordeal, and has called for anyone who may have been in the area to check their dashcams for a “black saloon with blacked out windows” in circulation after school hours on April 20, to help aid the police in their investigation.
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