Where’s my baby?
Screams of mother, 23, as she lay dying in road after car struck her and smashed into her 8-month-old son’s pram
A DYING mother screamed ‘where’s my baby’ after being hit by a car as she crossed the road with her son in a pram.
Nicole Newman, 23, and the eightmonth-old boy were hit by a motorist who ‘came from nowhere’.
Her partner Charlie Bianco-Ashley, 25, who was walking with them, tried to save their son by leaping in front of the pram. But the car missed him by inches in the crash on Sunday evening.
While she lay fatally injured, Miss Newman was heard screaming about her child Luciano. She died at the scene a few moments later.
Last night her baby, described by relatives as a ‘beautiful’ boy who had the ‘perfect family’, was still fighting for his life. The youngster was in a critical condition and was due to have surgery on his back.
After the crash, a haunting photograph emerged of his broken pram in the middle of the road. The blanket Luciano was tucked into for his evening stroll could still be seen dangling off the crumpled frame of the pram, which was missing a wheel.
The car driver, who stopped at the scene, was taken to hospital in the aftermath of the collision in south-east London, but has since been discharged.
The 51-year-old motorist, who was said to be driving with a young child in the back of the car, has not been arrested.
yesterday Luciano’s grandmother, Gabriella Bianco-Ashley, described how the family have been ‘torn apart’.
She said: ‘I visited the baby last night in hospital. He’s in a critical condition and going for an operation today. He had to be resuscitated twice and has a spinal injury.
‘Charlie told me the driver came from nowhere. He tried to get between the driver to protect his son and Nicole.’
Miss Newman, who was a stay-at-home mother and her boyfriend, who works in a warehouse, were childhood sweethearts. Mrs Bianco- Ashley said they were ‘ perfect for each other’ and had recently saved enough money to rent a flat.
‘They have been sleeping on the floor of my sitting room for the last year since they had nowhere to go, but they just got a new beautiful flat sorted four weeks ago.
‘When I spoke to my son yesterday evening he said they were just sat at home watching a film. Charlie is not coping at all. In a split second his whole family were torn apart.
‘As soon as I heard I took a mini cab, I ran out into the road and Charlie pulled me back and said “I don’t want you to be killed too”.
‘They were going to drop the baby off at Nicole’s mum’s and all of a sudden the car came out of nowhere. Nicole was a lovely girl. They have been together since she was 12. They were the perfect family.’ The crash happened on Croydon Road in Anerley on Sunday at around 8pm.
Witnesses described hearing a loud crack followed by the desperate screams of the dying mother whose last words were ‘where’s my baby?’.
Kayleigh Barthram said: ‘I didn’t see what happened but I heard a loud crack, as if something had hit a windscreen. I saw paramedics give CPR to the woman but after a while they put the tarpaulin up. The woman’s parents turned up and were distraught.’
A neighbour who lives close to the crash site told MailOnline: ‘Her last words were screams of “where’s my baby. Where’s my baby.” When I looked outside a passer-by was holding the baby to stop the car or the driver moving from the point of impact. The driver was a man with a young child aged around five years old.’
Another resident said: ‘People are always speeding on this road. The mum took a real hit, her handbag flew off in one direction and the buggy flew off in another.’
Police appealed for witnesses yesterday as bouquets of flowers were left at the scene.
‘The driver came from nowhere’