Pram carrying 8-month-old struck by car at crossing

A pregnant woman has spoken of the “pure fear” she experienced when she was crossing at traffic lights and the front of the pram carrying her 8-month-old son was struck by a car.

Kim Morrissey, 27, was crossing Queensway, close to the junction of Hartley Lane, using the pedestrian crossing close when the incident happened last Thursday morning. (8 December).

“I was crossing at the lights near Sandbrook School, I waited for the green man as you do, I started crossing and a car appeared, I was about half way across and it ran into the front of the buggie,” said Miss Morrissey.

Miss Morrissey then proceeded to swing the pram – carrying 8-month-old Mathew -away from the road and sustained damage to the ligaments and muscles in her shoulder, a bruised hip bone and a suspected cracked rib.

She said: “I felt pure fear – I thought my baby was a goner.

“He has a hard enough life as it is, he suffers from a genetic disease which means he is allergic to protein and the simplest thing like a cold could put him in hospital.

“The poor child has it tough enough as it is.”

Miss Morrissey, who is two months pregnant, said the whole incident has left her quite shook up and she now can’t cross the road when she is with Mathew without being with somebody else.

To add to the trauma Miss Morrissey has expressed disappointment over the handling of the situation from the police, saying she hasn’t heard anything from them over the past week.

She said: “I don’t think they are taking this seriously.

“I am expecting them to find him. They told me they have got CCTV footage from the lights and I have got an independent witness.”

Miss Morrissey described the driver of the silver Peugeot as a man in his 60s.

She said: “I don’t believe he did it on purpose, I think he was in a rush and thought he could get away with jumping the lights.”

A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police said enquires into the incident are ongoing.