POLICE are hunting the driver of a hit-and-run car who left a young Minehead mother injured and semi-conscious alongside her two young children on Alcombe’s busy main road.
Mrs Sam Perry had walked from her home in Alcombe Road to a Land Rover Discovery parked nearby at noon on Tuesday with her three-year-old son Henry and 14-month daughter Grace.
She was intending to drive to Porlock for lunch with her parents, who are owners of the vehicle.
“I had left Grace asleep in her pram on the pavement while I opened the rear offside door and put Henry into his safety seat,” she said.
“Suddenly there was a tremendous crash and I realised someone had driven into us.”
The impact crushed the 31-year-old mother of three against the rear door, injuring her back, shin and wrist.
“The driver seemed to wait at the traffic island for some time before driving off, perhaps wondering whether to turn back.
“The driver must have known he or she had crashed into me – the noise of the impact was deafening.
Sam was taken by ambulance to Musgrove Park Hospital and released later in the day after X-rays and treatment for her injuries.
“I was lucky,” she said. “If I hadn’t been slightly protected by the car door I could have been killed.
An Avon and Somerset police spokesman said on Wednesday that they were following leads provided by members of the public but still needed to hear from anyone who witnessed the incident or could identify the car involved.
Police ask anyone with informationto call 101 and ask for PC 1983.