THE family of a tragic six-year-old killed as he pushed his scooter across the M56 last night said they felt “so sorry” for the drivers involved in the numbing tragedy.

Guy Davies’s grandmother Marie Davies said her family did not blame the three drivers who “would not have been able to see anything” on the unlit stretch of motorway.

Mrs Davies spoke as calls were made to improve safety on the motorway stretch where six-year-old Guy and his school pal Kieran Coupe, seven, were killed instantly on Wednesday night.

The friends lived doors away in Murdishaw, Runcorn.

Kieran’s father, Colin Lambert has already blamed a lack of fencing and danger signs around the area for the tragedy.

And last night it emerged Cheshire police had informed the Health and Safety Executive that a section of fencing may have been missing.

An HSE spokesman said: “We are waiting for the police to establish where the fence was and how far it was from the motorway.

“It is by no means clear at this stage that the fence was removed as part of works, it may have been vandalised or something like that.”

Mr Lambert, 31, believes his son, who was afraid of the dark, was trying to get home when they walked – pushing their scooters – through a gap in a fence on to the Chester-bound carriageway at around 7.20pm.

Last night Guy’s grandmother Marie Davies said his father was “cut-up” over his son’s tragic death.

She said: “The poor little things must have seen the lights coming towards them, but what could they do?”

She said Guy had been warned not to go near the motorway, adding she did not blame the drivers involved.

“I feel so sorry for them. They would not have been able to see anything.

“Right from day one, Guy was always told, don’t go near the motorway, cars are too fast. Stay where you can be seen.”

She said Guy “was a typical little boy.”

“Always laughing and joking. He used to sit on his dad’s knee in the car and say, ‘look at me, I’m driving’.”

The families, joined by police and neighbours, had already been searching for the missing pair for almost two hours when the tragedy happened.

Mr Lambert said: “I told Kieran not to go near the motorway, it’s dangerous. I had been teaching him the Green Cross Code only this week and he knew to stay away from the woods.

“He was playing with Guy and he had his little green scooter, a push scooter, and I thought they were in the street and they were safe.”

Mr Lambert said the motorway is about 300 yards from the back garden of his home, with woods in between.

He added: “I look around and everything in this community is fenced off but not the motorway.

“There should be a fence or a danger sign at least to warn children away.”

Classmates of the two are also to be given extra lessons in road safety.

Teachers at their school, Murdishaw Primary, and other primaries in the Runcorn area will talk to youngsters about the tragedy when they return from half-term.