Harry Redknapp has spoken out about the freak accident that saw him run over his wife with his car.

The former Spurs and West Ham boss was seen helping his wife, Sandra, 69, into their home in Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset, today after picking her up from Poole Hospital where she had been kept overnight.

Mrs Redknapp, who was wearing a white and pink dressing gown upon returning to her £4million home, had her right foot in a large cast and was using crutches while Harry placed a supportive arm around her.

Speaking outside the couple's home Redknapp, 69, said: "She's fine, she's very lucky, it's made a mess of her ankle."

The accident happened at 11.50am yesterday when the football legend dropped his wife off in a busy shopping area in Westbourne, Bournemouth.

As he went to drive off he caught his wife of 49 years with his Range Rover, causing her to fall, hit her head and damage her ankle.

Mrs Redknapp was heard screaming in agony and there was a pool of blood left in the road at the scene, which is about four miles from the couple's mansion.

Outside the house Redknapp said: "My wife's fine, she's had an operation on her ankle that went well.

"It was just a freak accident. Sandra went to cross the road and I thought she'd crossed.

"She'd gone behind the car and to cross over the road. And as I went to drive off.... I sort of drove over her ankle basically.

"It's lucky. If the full weight of the car had run over the ankle - God knows what would have happened to her and her foot.

"She had an operation last night that went well so we're okay."

Witnesses said she was sat up and conscious when an ambulance arrived at the scene.

A local shopkeeper said: "I was told he pulled up to let his wife out but before she had completely got out, he went to pull away and she fell over, hitting her head on the floor and breaking her ankle.

"He moved his car out of the way so the ambulance could get to her and then he got in the ambulance with her but I didn't see what happened after that.

"Everyone was talking about it, at first people thought he had hit a pedestrian and then I heard it was actually his wife."

An eyewitness who saw the aftermath said: "I saw her in the road and it looked like her leg had gotten trapped in the car. I think she hit her head as there was a fair bit of blood on the ground.

"Someone from Boots went out to help with first aid until the ambulance arrived."

Another member of the public said: "I saw her sitting on the ground and a policeman was with her, while another officer was holding up the traffic.

"She was sitting up and it didn't look as if it was anything too serious but she was taken into an ambulance."