Kiss for hit-and-run survivor aged three

Lewis Ruddock suffered multiple broken bones, a fractured leg, a smashed pelvis, a gashed head and internal injuries in the hit-and-run accident.

His mother, Jayne Day, 23, and the toddler's father, Dave Ruddock, 25, have kept a 24-hour vigil by his bedside in intensive care since the incident on Saturday outside his grandmother's house in Leeds. He has been moved to the children's ward but remains seriously ill and is expected to be in hospital for at least another month.

His mother said: "He just keeps saying 'I want to go home' over and over again. Practically his whole body is covered in bandages. He just says 'I'm scared, Mummy' and asks for his toys.

"After the accident he was all floppy and he wasn't saying anything. I thought he was dead.

"I picked him up and sat on the kerb holding him. I just remember shouting at everyone to get away and telling him that I

loved him. I thought I had lost him." Doctors at Leeds General Infirmary have told his parents he is lucky to be alive.

Lewis and his mother had just been to visit his grandmother, Carole Grigg, when the incident occurred in Foundry Mill Drive, Seacroft, Leeds. As they waited to cross the road, Lewis ran a few steps ahead of his mother.

She added: "The car came up so fast. I just shouted 'Lewis'. He was dragged under the car. It took him down the street. I was just shouting 'Stop, he's under the car' and banging on the window."

Lewis's grandmother said: "He has got such horrific injuries, and we weren't sure whether he was going to make it, but he's pulling through."

A red Seat Leon was later found abandoned, and a 29-year-old man has been arrested and bailed on suspicion of dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident.