The mother of a five-year-old schoolgirl who died after being hit by a car says she felt the end of the world coming when she witnessed the incident unfolding.
Joanna Kong died after being hit by a car in her school car park earlier this year.
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Joanna (Zhifei) Kong was a student at Pigeon Mountain Primary School in east Auckland, when she was hit in the school car park in March. She died five days later.
Seventy-seven-year-old Cheng Chuang admitted a charge of careless driving causing the death of Joanna.
He was sentenced to 120 hours of community work and disqualified from driving for 12 months, when he appeared for sentencing at the Manukau District Court yesterday before Judge Richard Earwaker.
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