By Paul Nyathi| A Bulawayo man, Amon Munyuku will forever regret asking his four year old son to disembark from a school transport service and go home with him as that was the last he saw his son alive.

Moyo’s son Tymon was knocked down by a speeding commuter omnibus within seconds of him coming out of the school bus on Thursday.

According to Moyo, he was driving home when he saw his son in the school bus and asked the driver to let him out so he finishes the journey home with him.

The boy got out of the school bus in a hurry trying to cross the road to his father whereupon a speeding Kombi knocked him down killing him on the spot.

“I was driving from work and I saw the car that Tymon boards to pre-school, so I stopped the driver so that I could take my son home. I think he got too excited to see me and rushed out of the car. When I saw the kombi approaching, I tried stopping him from crossing but he didn’t hear me and the kombi driver was speeding such that he could not apply emergency brakes,” he said.

“Tymon was thrust beneath the kombi. When the ambulance arrived he was already dead. Sadly the driver of the kombi is someone I know from the neighbourhood. It was distressing to see my son lie there without being able to help him.”

Bulawayo police provincial spokesperson Inspector Precious Simango confirmed the incident.