The colleague of a mother-of-two who was killed in front of her young children in a suspected road rage attack described her as a “non-confrontational” person who was always smiling.
Christie McHugh (33) was carried along on the bonnet of a car in London before falling off and hitting a Belisha beacon, one of the lights on a zebra crossing.
Police and ambulance crews were called to Barnet shortly after 6.30pm on Tuesday but she was pronounced dead at the scene after suffering head injuries.
It is believed that she had a run-in with another driver who had apparently blocked in her car outside the Lord Kitchener pub.
Today, George Leonidou, chief executive of Luxx Light Technology where she worked as a PA, said: “She was non-confrontational, but she would have been fiercely protective of her children. She was blocked in trying to get her five-month-old daughter into the car and another car had parked, so that she couldn’t do so.
“I know that Christie would have asked the person in a polite way to move their car. But I was told the other person was very aggressive and totally out of control.
“However bad your day has been it clearly doesn’t give you the right to do that to someone in front of their children.
“We all miss her here, but we’re talking about someone leaving a five-month-old daughter who will never know her mother, a five-year-old boy who is constantly asking when mummy’s coming back.”
A woman was arrested in Barnet in connection with the death and released on bail until April.
Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward.