Mum lashes hit-run driver after baby almost crushed

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A South Australian mother has told of the moment her 10-month-old son was nearly crushed after an out-of-control car came crashing into their front yard in Adelaide's north.

The male driver of a Mini Cooper attempted to exit a roundabout just before 8pm on Friday night in Lightsview but instead bounced off a curb and swerved onto the wrong side of Eastern Parkway.

Tara, who did not wish to provide her full name or show her face, said the car made a loud noise before it came towards her home.

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A mother has told of the moment her 10-month-old son was nearly crushed by an out-of-control car that came crashing into their front yard in Adelaide's north.The driver of Mini Cooper attempted to exit a roundabout before 8pm in Lightsview but instead bounced off a curb and swerved onto the wrong side of Eastern Parkway.
Tara, who did not wish to provide her full name, said the car made a loud noise before it came towards her home.

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"All of a sudden he comes straight towards us," she said.

The driver lost control and ploughed into Tara's letterbox, where she was standing with her son in his pram, which became pinned by the car.

"He kept accelerating and then went up onto the front of the pram and pushed the pram backwards and I couldn't get the pram up the stairs," Tara claimed.

Witness Josephine Renshaw watched the crash unfold.

"I was up on the balcony and I saw the car come across and then heard her screaming, saying 'stop, stop, stop'," Renshaw said.

Tara eventually managed to free her son, who she said was "shaking", but the man allegedly fled the scene.

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A mother has told of the moment her 10-month-old son was nearly crushed by an out-of-control car that came crashing into their front yard in Adelaide's north. The driver of Mini Cooper attempted to exit a roundabout before 8pm in Lightsview but instead bounced off a curb and swerved onto the wrong side of Eastern Parkway.

"Then they reversed, had a flat tire trying to go up the street," Renshaw said.

Tara said the whole car was hanging off on the left hand side.

"It was making a god awful noise as he drove down the street," she said.

Police say the same male driver hit a light pole on Hampstead Road in Clearview moments earlier, knocking it to the ground And tonight, he remains on the run.

Aside from a few scratches and some shock, Tara's family escaped uninjured but the mother can't help but feel angry at the driver for fleeing the scene.

"You're the most pathetic human I've ever come across, to hit a pram," she said.

"The fact that there were four kids standing here and you could've just stopped, got out and said 'I'm so sorry' and taken the consequences but you're a lowlife."

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