Funny how stories about attacks on cars (in which nobody has been seriously hurt) make the national news, while attacks by car drivers on pedestrians vanish after only making the local press for a day.

this happened a mile from me at the weekend

The kid is so badly smashed up that if he doesn't die he will spend the rest of his life wishing he had.

(I go past that spot several times every week. The driver had no excuse whatever, no matter what the child did - if you turn at a blind corner in a residential area, you slow down enough to stop instantly).