A WOMAN who ran over a four-year-old boy at a zebra crossing and dragged him 36 metres has been fined but allowed to keep her licence by magistrates.
The accident happened on February 11 at around midday on Maldon Road, Witham, when Rachel Batts, 28, of School Road, Great Totham, drove her silver Mercedes A Class into the boy.
Two pedestrians were crossing at the time and car struck the child and he was dragged along the road.
He became trapped under the car and had to be freed by passers-by, including an off-duty firefighter who was driving past the crash scene.
Once rescued the youngster was airlifted to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridgeshire.
The toddler suffered serious wound to his head and required a nine-day hospital stay in which he had to undergo skin grafts.
In March police decided to prosecute Batts and she was charged with driving without due care and attention and failing to give way to pedestrians on a zebra crossing.
She pleaded guilty to the two counts at Chelmsford Magistrates Court on Tuesday (April 13) and was ordered to pay a £250, a £25 victim surcharge, costs of £90 and given six penalty points on her licence.
