Girl, 3, knocked off scooter by car outside school

Isla, 3, was knocked off her scooter outside a primary school but was not seriously injured

A mother said her daughter came "millimetres from being crushed" after she was knocked off her scooter by a car outside a primary school.

Isla, 3, was hit on a pedestrian crossing in Rochford, Essex as she and her mum Lily Alden-Smith were going to collect her brothers from Holt Farm Junior School.

The toddler was knocked backwards and fell down the side of the car in Ashingdon Road, suffering a bruised face and a concussion.

Essex Police said she was taken to hospital as a precaution and confirmed officers were called to the scene.

Mum Lily Alden-Smith said the toddler was "millimetres from being crushed" by the car

Ms Alden-Smith, 30, feared her daughter had been seriously injured.

"She was literally millimetres from going under the car and being crushed, so it could have been a fatality," she said.

"I picked her up and she was just still and I honestly thought it was really serious because she wouldn’t move.

"I was in so much shock and I just went silent and everything was quiet around me – people were talking to me but all I was doing was just looking at Isla."

She was taken to hospital as a precaution with a concussion and bruises to her face

Ms Alden-Smith said the car involved was driven away before "a few of the mums chased it" and the driver eventually stopped.

The mum-of-three added the incident had affected her daughter: "She is a sturdy girl so she bounced back but she won’t go on a scooter anymore and she hates doing the school run.

"She doesn’t want to go out because she’s scared it will happen again. She is struggling mentally."