The mother of Bermuda's latest road victim Tyaisha Cox has opened her heart to talk of the sadness and despair at the loss of her precious angel.

Margret Moor said she was unable to envisage life without her six-year-old daughter, but said she was putting her faith in God that he would pull her through.

Tyaisha was pronounced dead on Friday afternoon after being knocked down the previous day outside her summer day camp in Warwick.

Her death is the sixth road traffic death on Bermuda's roads in 2003.

She was on a life support machine, but doctors said there was no hope for recovery, so her mother and stepfather O'Neil Moor made the heartbreaking decision to switch off the machine.

But in the 24 hours they had with Tyaisha before her death, they took solace in the fact that they had been able to hold her and say their goodbyes.

And now they are hoping that Tyaisha will live on in others after deciding to donate her organs to children in need.

“She was on a life support machine, but she was already brain dead - we found that out on Friday,” said Mrs. Moor.

“We have donated her organs. That was not an easy decision, but I felt that if it could save someone else's child it was a good decision to make.

“She can always live on in someone else. I think practically all of her organs have gone already and I have got strength from that. I got to hold her in my arms when I went to the hospital and she just looked like she was sleeping. She looked very peaceful.”

Tyaisha had just got off the 8C bus from Somerset with her nine-year-old brother Tyshaun Brown outside Purvis Primary School in Warwick early on Thursday morning when tragedy struck.

The mother said, from what she understood, the bus had stopped to let the children off and then immediately waited while they crossed the road using the pedestrian crossing.

But as the traffic waited, a car, driven by a young woman, pulled out from behind to overtake and ran through the crossing, hitting the little girl.

The bus driver is said to have seen the car coming and sounded his horn, but it was too late. Although the horn managed to alert Tyshaun and stop him in his tracks, there was no time to save his sister, who was just ahead of him.

Within a split second, Mrs. Moor said her daughter was under the car. However, without the bus driver's quick action, she said she could well have lost both her children that morning.

Since it happened, Tyaisha's shaken brother has been unable to talk to his parents about the incident and has been unable to return home.

Instead, he has chosen to stay with his grandmother for a few days.

He is going to need therapy to help him deal with the ordeal.

But Mrs Moor said she was also having difficulty coming to terms with what had happened, particularly as this was the first time the children had caught the bus to the summer camp without her.

And to make matters worse, Friday was to be the children's last day at the summer camp.

“I normally go with them on the bus because I make 8.30 a.m. at work,” said the 29-year-old mother of two. “But this particular morning I was not ready and they were ready to go, so I said ‘go and get the bus'.

“I then caught the bus to Somerset Bridge and caught the ferry into town, so I didn't find out what had happened until I got to work.

“I think about that and find it difficult because I was normally with them, but I'm a church person and I guess the grace of God is pulling me through.”

Mrs. Moor, of Bob's Valley Lane, Somerset, said she still imagined her daughter coming to hug her in the mornings, and telling her she was going out across the street to play with her friends.

A lively, talkative girl, she said she would be missed by many people across the Island.

“My daughter was very loving and kind to her family and friends, and she had a lot of friends,” said the distraught mother.

“She loved befriending people and every morning she would talk to people on the bus. She loved swimming, playing with her friends, riding her brother's bike, and dancing. And she loved doing things with her stepfather O'Neil.

“She was also very bright and she did very well in school. Her report cards were always very good. She was looking forward to going back in September and being in P2.

“She was loved by everyone - everyone was drawn to her. There are no words to explain the way she was. She was my precious angel. I think she was just a God-sent child, and like my pastor said, she has done her work on earth now.”

Mrs. Moor said she had received a lot of support from her family and friends, and from members of both the New Testament Church of God in Somerset and Hamilton, where the family regularly attend.

And she said yesterday, she and her husband attended the Hamilton church yesterday where prayers were said for Tyaisha and where she was remembered as the fun-loving youngster who loved to worship.

A funeral service will be held for Tyaisha, a pupil at Victor Scott Primary School in Pembroke, on Thursday at the Heritage Worship Centre in Dundonald Street, Pembroke.

Viewing will be between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., followed immediately by the service. No plans have yet been made for burial.

But on Tuesday, Mrs. Moor has agreed to meet with the driver of the car, at the request of the woman.

How she will handle that she said she did not know, but she said she felt no loathing.

“I don't think I really appreciate what's happened yet, but I have no hatred,” added Mrs. Moor. “I don't really know how my life is going to change without Tyaisha, but I know I'm going to miss her.

“I'm managing to keep everything together now, but I know Thursday is going to be very hard on me.

“The realisation of what has happened will probably hit home then, and then we have to face the future without her. That is very difficult to do.”

At the end of January, 47-year-old British butcher Warren White was killed on Crow Lane in Pembroke after he lost control of his bike.

In March, Troylisha Outerbridge, 19, died after a car packed with young people she was travelling in veered off the road at Shelly Bay Field on North Shore Road in the early hours.

Less than a week later, Chioke (Bruiser) Spencer, 22, was killed on Middle Road in Southampton after the car he was driving collided with a wall.

In June, Laurie Joseph, 29, was killed after crashing his motorcycle on Harrington Sound Road in Hamilton Parish.

Three weeks after Mr. Joseph's death, student Oshea Stowe, 15, of Pearman's Hill, Warwick, was killed in the horrific smash at 5 a.m. after the car in which he was travelling smashed into a wall and collided with a trailer parked on Ord Road.