A Lanarkshire mum has told of the moment her son and his girlfriend had to be freed from their car after a hit and run.
Emergency services rushed to Airbles Road in Motherwell following a smash at around 7pm on Sunday (February 6).
The terrifying incident happened after the woman's son and partner left the nearby Steelworks Bar and Grill.
As the car approached the roundabout on Airbles Road, the pair remember seeing a silver transit van a safe distance away.
But they were left stunned when they saw the van speeding towards them before smashi ng into the side of their car.
The terrified mum told our sister paper the Daily Record : "They said the minute they went to pull out, this driver put the foot down and was about 70mph an hour and 'deliberately' smashed into them and was shouting something to them.
"They had plenty time, but the speed that he came flying up the road when she pulled out. He never stopped, he just kept driving."
The driver, who the protective mum has slammed as "scum", fled the devastation at the scene without alerting emergency services.
Luckily, an ambulance had been en route to a call when they spotted the collision and came to the couple's aid.
The 55-year-old mum, from Motherwell, arrived on the scene after her son phoned her from within the wreckage.
She said: "Just minutes after a text from my son, I got a call and I could make out the words 'Airbles Road' and 'crash'. I was thinking 'what had happened here?', his dad and I jumped in the car and flew up to the road.
"When I saw the car, I thought I had lost the two of them. Then I saw my son's girlfriend and a paramedic was on the other side seeing my son but I couldn't see that - that's when I realised he was still in the car."
The mum says the experience was "horrendous" as she looked on helplessly.
Fire crews were drafted in to assist police and paramedics by cutting her son from the car - but she couldn't bear to watch.
Her son, who had been the passenger, was rushed to hospital but was released in the early hours of Monday morning.
Despite the seriousness of the crash, the couple had a miraculous escape and are now recovering from painful bruising.
The mum said: "I still don't know how they survived it. I'm still saying someone was watching the two of them that night.
"We're just so angry with the driver."
Police have launched a probe into the smash and are hunting the driver of a silver transit van who failed to stop.
Anyone with information about the collision, or dashcam footage, is being urged to come forward.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: "Around 7pm on Sunday, 6 February, officers were called to reports of a crash involving a car and a van on Airbles Road, Motherwell.
"The 23-year-old male passenger of the car was taken to University Hospital Wishaw.
"The silver transit van failed to stop."
Anyone with any information in relation to the incident is asked to contact police on 101.
Information can be left anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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