Girl, 9, has face op after she's 'dragged under car'

YOUNGSTER ‘UPBEAT' AS MUM SAYS 'I'M SO GLAD SHE'S ALIVE'

- JAMES HOLT

A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl was 'dragged two metres under a car' and left needing facial reconstruction after a horrific crash, her mother has said.

Ivy Williams was walking home from St Gabriel's primary school in Leigh when she stepped out to cross the road.

She was hit by a car on Richmond Drive, in the Higher Folds area, at around 3.40pm last Wednesday.

Her mum Cheryl told the M.E.N. how Ivy became stuck under the car.

She said blood was pouring down the street when she arrived at the scene, before Ivy was rushed to Manchester Children's Hospital.

Cheryl said the driver claimed he had tried to avoid hitting her son, and hadn't seen Ivy when she was struck down. She says her daughter has been left with a number of injuries to her face, resulting in surgery and reconstruction, along with bruising to her head, clumps of hair coming out, a broken vertebra, collarbone and pelvis and a collapsed lung.