A four-year-old girl fatally injured in a hit-and-run crash has saved two lives after her family donated her organs. Violet-Grace Youens died in her mother’s arms on Saturday after being knocked down by a car on Friday afternoon while walking home from school with her grandmother in St Helens, Merseyside. Police are appealing for information to help them trace the two occupants of the Ford Fiesta who were seen running away on CCTV footage. Violet’s grandmother Angela French was in a “serious but stable” condition while her mother, Rebecca Youens, posted a tribute to her daughter on Facebook yesterday. She wrote: “My beautiful baby girl passed away in my arms on 25/03/2017 at 23:38.

Source: The Times March 26, 2017 23:48 UTC