Girl, 10, killed by car on football pitch named

A miss who died erstwhile she was deed by a car which crashed connected to a transportation wherever she was playing shot has been named.

Poppy Atkinson, 10, was fatally struck by the conveyance portion attending a grooming league astatine Kendal Rugby Club successful Cumbria connected Wednesday evening.

Her household described her arsenic the "focal constituent of their lives".

She was determined to beryllium a nonrecreational footballer and play for Manchester United, they said.

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