A MUM has said it’s a “miracle” her son wasn’t more seriously hurt after being involved in a crash near a school in Poole.

Reggie Hughes, eight, was crossing the road on Friday after finishing for the day at Upton Junior School when he was involved in a collision with a black Volkswagen Golf.

Police were called to Sea View Road, opposite the junction of St Martin’s Road, which leads to the school, at around 3.20pm.

Reggie’s mum Alison Thomas was at work at the time of the crash and the youngster was being collected by his grandmother who was stood on the opposite side of the road when the accident happened.

Ms Thomas said that there are double yellow lines on the road.

However, she said a car was parked on the lines at the time of the crash which had blocked Reggie’s view up the road.

She said: “He slipped and there was a car coming down the road which had no view whatsoever of him.

“The car went over his legs and the driver said he thought he had run something over and then he reversed.”

Ms Thomas said her mum had heard “loads of screaming” during the incident.

“When I got there were hundreds of people around him.

“Everyone was amazing, and Reggie was on the floor and people were giving him coats and hats and trying to keep him warm and the ambulance turned up and he was being given gas and air before he was taken to hospital,” she added.

Reggie was kept in Poole Hospital overnight on Friday after being given X-rays, but Ms Thomas said staff were “absolutely shocked” he hadn’t broken any bones.

Fortunately, the youngster only sustained soft tissue damage and bruising, however Ms Thomas was told by hospital staff that tissue damage can affect kidneys.

Reggie was kept off school yesterday and Ms Thomas said he was still “in a lot of pain”.

Ms Thomas said: “I can’t quite get my head around it.

“Somehow a miracle happened.

“I can only think my dad who had passed away was looking over him.

“The doctors said it was a miracle nothing was broken.”

In a Facebook post on Friday evening, Upton Junior School urged parents to think about the safety of all children and not just their own during the school run to ensure an accident did not reoccur.

Ms Thomas added: “It’s been an ongoing thing.

“Every single day without fail I have to get there at 2.30pm so I can be facing the right way, so no one is in danger.”

Dorset Police confirmed they had received a report of a Vauxhall Corsa parked on double yellow lines on Friday at the time of the incident.

A spokesperson said their investigations are ongoing and no one has been arrested.