A mum and son are lucky to be alive after a car almost hit them while they were walking along a main road.
Rebecca Lloyd was out with her 13-year-old son Owen at around 9.30pm on Sunday, July 17. when she suddenly heard a loud revving sound from behind her as they walked along Hall Lane, in Maghull. As she turned around she saw a Volvo XC60 driving towards her along the pavement of Liverpool Road South.
Instinctively, the mum-of-one hurled her son into a bush before jumping out of the way of the car in a narrow brush with death. As the car drove off, she rang her husband, Adam, sent her son home and decided to follow the car before it pulled up outside the Meadows pub.
Adam soon arrived, with police showing up a a short time later. The 40-year network designer for BT told the ECHO about his family's experience on Sunday evening.
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He said: "My wife was walking down Hall Lane in Maghull on Sunday evening with my son. She heard a car rev up and when she turned around a driver had mounted the kerb. It was a white Volvo.
"She managed to push my son out the way into the bushes and she managed to jump out the way herself. He carried on driving down the road erratically after my wife had tried to get him to stop. My wife told my son to go home and she followed the driver.
"I was only around the corner at the cricket club so she phoned me and I met my wife and he had stopped the car across from the Meadows pub so we caught up to him and he didn't even realise what he'd done, didn't understand what was going on. There were other people in the car as well."
Adam said if it wasn't for the fact that Rebecca, 40, heard the car behind her they could have been killed. He added: "They're fine now they were just very shaken up. My son is a typical teenager and didn't really understand what was happening when my wife pushed him out the way, it was only when the car went past.
"He was quite shaken up after the event, my wife was as well, and I was. You just think if she hadn't heard him coming down the road he could have wiped the two of them out and god only knows what would have happened. It doesn't even bear thinking about."
Merseyside Police confirmed that officers were called to the junction of Liverpool Road South and Hall Lane at around 9.50pm on Sunday, July 17, following reports a car had mounted a pavement and collided with railings.
John Murphy, 54, of, Liverpool Road South, has been charged with failing to provide a specimen. He was bailed to appear in court in Sefton on August 10.
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