So lucky to live! Car hits family on walk to school
THIs is the moment the walk to school nearly ended in tragedy.
Mandy White and three of her four children were with another family when a car ploughed into them.
Mrs White, 42, daughter Poppy, five, and toddler Taylor, 17 months, who was in her pushchair, were sent flying into a front garden and pinned against a fence by the Toyota Yaris. The incident last Wednesday was captured on domestic CCTV, which shows Mrs White scrambling to rescue Poppy, who was trapped under the front of the vehicle.
Amazingly, they suffered only minor injuries, while daughter Ellie, 11, was unhurt. Mrs White, who lives near the scene of the crash in Hadleigh, Essex, said: ‘I remember lying on the floor and my five-year-old was lying right next to me with the car over her legs. We were all screaming because the car was still revving and I thought it was going to crush my children. We’re lucky to be alive.’
she said the accident happened when the Toyota was sent out of control at 30mph when it was clipped by a Vauxhall Corsa that went through a Give Way sign at a junction. ‘My heart is pounding just speaking about it,’ she said. ‘If it hadn’t been a fence and it was a brick wall, Poppy certainly wouldn’t be here now.’
Lee scarisbrick, 58, whose CCTV filmed the crash, said: ‘You can’t quite believe how Mandy and her children weren’t killed. The lady driving the car was absolutely traumatised because she thought she could have killed them.’