Boy dragged under wheels of car goes home from hospital

Lewis Ruddock, three, was left fighting for his life after he was involved in an accident just yards from his grandmother's home.

But the youngster is now almost unrecognisable from the tiny, battered and bandaged little lad photographed in his hospital bed after the accident.

Lewis, of Leeds, was left with a fractured leg and smashed pelvis, a gashed forehead, cracked skull and massive internal injuries following an alleged hit-and-run.

His mother Jayne Day, 23, screamed as he was dragged under the wheels of a car.

The toddler spent three weeks at the children's unit at Leeds General Infirmary, where doctors said he was lucky to be alive.

Lewis giggles and smiles cheekily but although his wounds are healing, the mental scars still remain.

She was at Lewis's hospital bedside throughout the ordeal and said: "He gets upset if I leave the room and he keeps waking up in the night and asking me to hold his hand. He says cars make him dizzy."

She and her mother Carole Grigg, whose home Lewis had been visiting when the accident happened on May 15, say they are eternally grateful to the doctors and nurses at LGI.