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Family’s tribute to ‘fantastic son and brother’


- Our hearts are in two’


byFaiza Afzaal ■


: POIGNANT tributes con-: tinue to pour in for a popu-


:• lar and intelligent Clitheroe student who died in a hoy -, •rific car crash on a notori­


ous road. ■ Eighteen-year-old Matthew


Alstorij' of Simonstone, died when his Vauxhall Corsa was


- in collision with a silver Seat- i ■


Toledo on the A671 Whalley ; Road, Read, at 7-15 a.m. on


, Saturday. Emergency services ' /'were called,'but Matthew was / pronounced dead at the scene.


/ ’An inquest into his death will open today.


■ Two off-duty police officers who were in the Toledo were


" taken to Royal Blackburn Hos- 'pital, but have since both been . discharged. ■,


. . ^ ■ Matthew was due to collect


• his A-level results today from Clitheroe .'Royal Grammar


)- School and go on to study inter- ; national business at university. / Floral tributes now mark the


FLORAL TRIBUTES: mentoes left at the


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. scene of the accident and heart- ■. broken friends and family have,


been bombarding a Facebook page set up by schoolfriends with messages of condolence.. As Matthew’s family come to


terms with his untimely death, his father, Andrew, wrote a message describing Matthew a s “ a fantastic son and brother” who his f ami l y “loved so. m u ch ”-./'


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< j ^ n 61''' Hayden and MATTHEW I would like to thank all Matt’s friends for their beautiful mes­ sages. Words cannot express our sadness at this time and how all your love and support is helping us enormously. Mat­ thew was a fantastic son and brother, our hearts are abso-


, lately broken in two.”,; . • Other messages on Mat­


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. ing person. You brought many smiles to my face in the past and I. know that you still will to so many people with the memories they will always have


of you.” ■-Meanwhile, headteacher


Mrs Judith Child has spoken of the school’s shock and sadness at the loss of the “welFliked young man who was also an ex­ cellent sportsman”. Paying tribute, she said:


“Matthew was a well-liked stu- dent and an asset to our school.


. He was a very intelligent young man, with a bright future ahead of him. He had a great deal of flair for business studies and was looking forward to study­ ing business management at Northumbria University. • She added: “Matthew was


an excellent sportsman, having represented the school at rug-


' by, athletics, cricket, swimming ■ and-having also captained the


• school football team in Years 10 and lliTn the sixth form,


■ said: “All I can say is how you •; success.


' Matthew played for the school ■


1st XI football team with great * -


Some of his proudest mo­


ments at school came whilst representing Hyndburn and Ribble Valley in both the foot­ ball and cricket teams. . “Matthew will be sadly missed by staff and students. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this very difficult time.” Matthew, who is also a


former pupil of Simonstone Primary School, had worked in sales at weekends for Rufus Carr Ltd, Ford dealer in Clit­ heroe, for the past hvo years. Mr Peter Bryan, joint man-


. After the accident, the road was closed for five hours while an investigation was carried out


/ aging director of the firm said: “Matthew was a very pleas­ ant young man and everyone seemed to like him. He will be missed by everyone who knew . him.” :


■ and police are appealing for witnesses to contact them. The 38-year-old woman driv­


er of the Toledo, from Read, had to be cut free from the car


. by firefighters and although Hllirntopage 5


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