POLICE are still trying to trace a mobility scooter rider who crashed into a boy of three breaking his leg.
Charlie Wilson, of Rhyl, was walking to nursery with his mother at lunchtime on September 29 when he was hit by a man riding his scooter on the pavement.
His mother Edith, 30, said she was walking with a friend to the nursery at Ysgol Emmanuel and saw the mobility scooter coming towards them.
“I looked behind to see where Charlie was.When I turned back the mobility scooter went round me and had knocked Charlie down and broken his leg.”
Charlie was taken to Glan Clwyd Hospital where doctors found he had suffered two fractures to his shin.
Edith said: “I was shocked and really concerned about him. I’ve never heard him scream like that before. From a mother’s point of view, to hear your child scream like that and know there’s nothing you can do is horrible. The doctors said there was a small possibility the leg he’s broken might heal shorter than the other, because his shin was broken twice, and the bone at the top has snapped.”
Charlie will have to spend some time in a wheelchair and his mother said he was having nightmares and was nervous of passing mobility scooters in the street.
Police say they want to speak to the driver of the dark coloured mobility scooter, who stopped briefly but gave no details.
Sgt Gwyndaf Jones said: “We do not believe that the rider realises the degree of injury that was sustained by the child. We are trying to trace the man who is described as being in his 60’s, of medium to large build with short possibly ginger coloured hair.
Anyone with information should contact Pc 2047 Williams on 101.