The family of a Sydney schoolboy is in mourning after the 17-year-old was struck by a car and died.
His sister Ovindi was in Singapore when she was told her brother had been in an accident.
She called Westmead Hospital and asked for an update on her brother’s condition was when the person on the phone said ”we don’t have a patient called Calvin Wijeweera here”.
“I was confused,” she said.
“I asked my mum, they’re saying my brother is the hospital and my dad said ‘no one wants me to tell you this but he has passed away’.
“On the flight coming back to Sydney I kept thinking I’m going realise that I’m just dreaming (and) this isn’t actually happening.”
Ovindi said the siblings were “really close”.
“I don’t have any other siblings except for him,” she said.
“I’ll miss him so much because I won’t be able to share anything with him anymore.”
The siblings were children when their family left Sri Lanka for a new life in Sydney.
Calvin was a constant in his sister’s life.
“It was the four of us here,” she said.
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“Whenever I’d turn a corner I’d see him sitting at the dining table because he would study on the table,” she said.
“I would see him in the kitchen grabbing something to eat.”
Calvin was with two other boys at the time he died.
Both of them survived but the death has left them in shock.
Police are yet to interview the 90-year-old woman who was behind the wheel of the car.
Friends, family and teachers from Carlingford High School went to the scene to console the boys after the incident.
The community has also rallied around Calvin’s family as they honour his life.
He will be remembered as a great friend, a bright student and an aspiring aerospace engineer.
“His passing has shown us that you know we’re not really alone,” Ovindi said.
