Neston teenager who died in road crash to be remembered with college trophy in his name

Jul 14 2010 by Lorna Hughes, Birkenhead News

A NESTON teenager who tragically lost his life in a road accident will be remembered with a college trophy in his name.

Eddie Smith, an apprentice bricklayer studying at Wirral Met College, was killed in July last year when the car he was a passenger in crashed on the A540.

Friends John Aston and Michaela Favager, both 19 and another passenger, Gillian Fowle, 43 also died.

His college tutors said Eddie, 19, was a promising student with a bright future.

They will award the Eddie Smith Memorial Trophy each year to a student who has demonstrated outstanding achivement in construction.

His proud parents Ray and Sue were invited to the Floral Pavilion Theatre last week to see the trophy being awarded for the first time during Wirral Met’s Celebration of Achivement Evening.

Ray, a former bricklayer who now works for the AA, said: “My wife and family would like to thank them for presenting this trophy and keeping Eddie’s memory going.

“Bricklaying was something he loved doing and he was the one who pushed to go to college.

“He asked his boss, who said no, but he was keen to do it so he kept on asking until they agreed to let him go.

“He’d only been there for a year but he represented the college in a bricklaying competition.”

Eddie was also a talented footballer but an injury meant he was unable to pursue the sport as a career.