A MUM is pressing for major roadwork plans to be speeded up after she and her baby son were hit by a car outside Burton Road school.

Sue Cater warned problems outside the school were so bad someone could be killed if the council delay the A61 Bus Quality Corridor project much longer.

She was waiting to cross the road to drop daughter Hollie off at nursery on Monday morning when a car reversed onto her foot and knocked her over.

Sue, of Ladymead, Monk Bretton was trapped under the car, fell to the ground, dropped her 13 month old son Jamie and they were both taken to the casualty department.

Sue, 38, was left with a sprained knee, unable to walk and finding it hard to walk. Jamie was checked over by doctors and the pair were later discharged. She said: “It was all a bit of a blur but I was more concerned about my baby to make sure he was ok.

“I am trying to get something done and would consider a petition. There is going to be a new road and a one way system but something needs to be sorted now because this road is dangerous.

“There is nowhere to park and it is dangerous trying to cross the road.”

Sue says it is only by chance her daughter wasn’t hit because when crossing the road she stands nearest to the cars so if there was an accident she would be hit first.

But this time there were other people about so Hollie was on her right hand side and the car hit her from the left.

She added: “It would have been her under those wheels and she is a lot tinier than me. I got to the hospital and broke down and said to my husband it could have been Hollie.”