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A DISQUALIFED driver has been charged with a fatal hit and run at Ingle Farm which killed a father in front of his two young children as they walked home from soccer training.

Major Crash investigators arrested the man, 25, of Ingle Farm, at an Elizabeth North house last night. He was charged with aggravated cause death by dangerous driving, leaving the scene of an accident where a person was killed and driving while disqualified.

Another Ingle Farm man, 24, who was at the property was also arrested and charged with impeding a police investigation.

Both men were refused police bail and will appear in the Elizabeth Magistrates Court on Monday.

The arrests followed an intensive hunt for the driver of a speeding Ford utility which allegedly hit a father, 45, as he left the Ingle Farm Junior Soccer Club on Beovich Rd with his son and daughter on Thursday night.

The utility was found burning in a nearby street 25 minutes later while residents comforted the two children as paramedics tended to their father, who was left lying in a gutter. He was taken to hospital in a critical condition but tragically died from his injuries.

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The hit-run has sparked calls for a fixed speed camera along Beovich Rd, which local residents have described as a racetrack.

The death has traumatised the Ingle Farm Junior Soccer Club and residents who were confronted with the tragedy.

Beovich Rd resident Marinus Den Engelse said he immediately knew there had been a serious accident outside his house when he heard an “almighty bang”.

“I flew out the front door and saw the little girl standing there screaming and everything else. He was lying in the gutter of the driveway ... he was just lying there,” Mr Den ­Engelse told The Advertiser.

“There was a little boy down the way a bit and she was trying to help her dad, and I had to pull her away and bring her in the driveway and the little boy came running up to be with his sister.”

Mr Den Engelse said he called emergency services and took the children, aged about four and five, into his home as an off-duty police officer tried to help their father.

Another woman who stopped also took her children into Mr Den Engelse’s home as he checked what was happening outside.

“I got the information off the little girl. She knew her address and the name of her father and two car registration numbers, and we just sat here with them for two hours trying to calm the kids down. It was just a mess,” he said.

Mr Den Engelse said he tried to calm the children as police tried to contact their mother.

“The little boy was sitting here asking me questions — if his dad has been killed and are the police going to help him and stuff. You could see the pain in them,” he said.

“He had soccer boots on. I think they’d just finished training.

I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy — and especially those babies. They didn’t deserve that.”

Mr Den Engelse said he believed the car was speeding and said another driver chased the offender down Beovich Rd.

“It must have been flying because by the time I got out I couldn’t see anything because it was gone. You could hear it was flying,” he said.

“And for this guy to just take off like that is a dog act, especially in front of his kids.”

Ingle Farm Junior Soccer Club chairman Neville Binyon said the tragedy had sentshock waves through the tightknit sports club.

“The club is going to be very devastated,” Mr Binyon said.

“They are a family that’s been with the club and have other family members in the club and it’s going to be very hard for the club to push through this.”

“The biggest battle is the kids witnessed it and they just left him there and drove away.”

Mr Binyon said Ingle Farm teams will observe a minute’s silence and will wear black armbands in this weekend’s matches as a mark of respect for the man.

“It’s very sad and it’s very hard. The young lad is new — it was his first season — and he witnessed it,” he said.

“There are other family members at the club as well.”

Police have asked anyone who witnessed the crash or ­believe they saw the vehicle involved to call the police assistance line on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

The man’s death takes the state’s road toll to 53, one less than at the same time last year.

Camera call to catch hoons

By Andrew Dowdell

RESIDENTS are demanding a fixed speed camera be installed on Beovich Rd, which they have described as a “racetrack” for hoon drivers.

Standing on the spot where a father was struck and killed as he left soccer training with his son and daughter, long-time Ingle Farm residents Allan Courtney and Alf Middleton yesterday said they were dismayed but not surprised by the tragedy.

“After six o’clock at night this road is like a racetrack, you’ve got people going 120 (km/h) and early every morning, it’s every single day,” Mr Middleton said.

“I don’t even know the colour of them they go that bloody fast sometimes, and you have kids here every night for soccer.”

Mr Courtney said he had lived in the area for the past 50 years and had seen and heard hundreds of speeding vehicles at all hours.

“It’s devastating to think that people are so stupid. If you get caught going 60km/h in a 50km/h zone it’s probably not a big thing, but these guys are going in excess of 110km/h,” he said.

Mr Courtney said police were often in the area but said the only solution to the speeding problem would be installing a fixed speed camera.

“Now and again they are under the bridge doing a registration check and there was an unmarked speed camera car here yesterday, but these guys know where the police are, so it needs a fixed camera to stop it,” he said.

“It’s a joke, it really is.

“A fixed camera on the bridge and you would be surprised how many they will bloody get.”

Mr Courtney said his heart went out to the victim’s children and extended family and friends.

“Those poor children will never ever get over that, imagine seeing your own father killed — it’s just bloody devastating,” he said.