Joan Ellen Smith charged after Calvin Wijeweera dies at Carlingford

An elderly woman charged after a schoolboy was killed in a crash in northwest Sydney was due to front court five months after his death.

The case for an elderly Epping woman who was charged after the death of Calvin Wijeweera at Carlingford has been mentioned at court.

Joan Ellen Smith, 91, was due to front Burwood Court on Monday, five months after the

17-year-old Carlingford High School student died after he was walking near Carlingford Court shopping centre at Rembrandt St.

Emergency services were called to the site about 11.15am on December 1 after reports a car had left the road and hit two teenage boys walking on the footpath.

Ryde police and NSW Ambulance paramedics attended and rendered assistance but Calvin died at the scene.

A second boy, also aged 17, suffered a head injury and was taken to hospital in a stable condition.

Calvin Wijeweera, far right, with his sister Ovindi and parents Sandun and Anoma.

Smith, who was driving the Mitsubishi Lancer sedan, suffered a leg injury and was taken to hospital, where she underwent mandatory testing.

A crime scene was established, which specialist police forensically examined.

On March 19, Smith was charged with negligent driving (occasioning death) and negligent driving (no death or grievous bodily harm).

Her matter was listed at court on Monday when she was excused from appearing. The matter was adjourned to June 26.

Family and friends remembered Calvin, an aspiring aerospace engineer, as a gentle, brilliant soul.

At his funeral at St Gerard Majella’s Catholic Church in December, Calvin’s older sister Ovindi praised her brother as “handsome, brilliant, athletic”.

“You had a short life but a tremendously beautiful one,’’ she said.

“Though your life was only 17 years long, you have touched the hearts of hundreds of people.