Witnesses saw pensioner’s body lying in road moments after he had been run over

A WITNESS told the trial how he saw a man lying in the middle of the road moments after the victim had been run over.

Archie Hill told a jury he then got out of the car he was driving and saw a pool of blood around the head of Steven Day.

Seconds earlier the silver Vauxhall Corsa Mr Hill was driving had been scraped by a silver Ford Ranger 4x4 being driven by Karl Twyford who he said “drove off at high speed” having driven over and killed the victim.

Mr Hill, giving evidence, said he was driving a car full of friends back from a McDonald’s in Loughborough when the 4x4 being driven by Twyford scraped into the side of his vehicle very close to the scene of the collision with Mr Day.

He said: “He pulled away from my car and slowed down like he was making a decision about what he was going to do. My friend got out of my car and then after maybe five seconds the driver (Twyford) drove off at high speed.

“I was still in a bit of shock, I was looking forwards and that’s when I saw the body in the road. My friends were concerned with the driver (the defendant) but I was the only one who had seen the man’s body in the road.”

Prosecutor Esther Harrison asked Mr Hill: “Where was the man?”

The witness replied: “Pretty central in the middle of the road lying horizontally between both lanes.

He could have been lying at an angle but he was pretty much horizontal.”

Miss Harrison asked: “Was he moving?” Mr Hill replied: “No. I got out of the car and as I approached the man, I could see a pool of blood around his head.”

A second witness called Wadie Kaidi, who was in the front seat passenger in Mr Hill’s Vauxhall Corsa, also told the jury he saw Mr Day’s body lying in the road. Miss Harrison asked him: “Was it moving?”

He replied: “No, there was a big pool of blood around the head area. I remember he was lying on his back.”