A PARENT said her chin left a dent in her car after she was knocked to the ground following a hit-and-run outside her child’s nursery.

Stephanie Herring is campaigning for a slow-down sign to be installed outside All Saints Nursery on Western Road after the incident involving a car which "came out of nowhere."

At 3.14pm on Thursday, October 17, Stephanie was on her usual school run. She first picked up her six-year-old and then parked on Western Road to collect her child from nursery.

She said: “I checked that the road was clear and went to help my daughter unbuckle her seatbelt and get her out of the car.

“I was just pulling my head out when a car drove past me so fast that it slammed me into my car door.

“I ended hitting my chin and denting the top of my car and I fell to the floor screaming.”

A neighbour heard Stephanie’s scream and a “loud bang” and came out to see what had happened.

Upon seeing Stephanie with blood "pouring" out of her chin, he called the police and ambulance service and contacted her husband.

Stephanie was taken to hospital, where she had to have her chin stitched up. She said she had such severe pain in her neck that she initially thought that was where the blood came from.

She said: “It just feels like quite a violent act; even if it was an accident, you would have thought they would stop.

“My first thought was [of] my daughter in the car, because she was so scared.”

After the incident, Stephanie, alongside several parents at All Saints Nursery, has been campaigning for a ‘slow down’ sign to be placed outside the nursery.

“I would hate for something like this to happen to one of our little ones.

“Obviously they are so much smaller and so much more vulnerable it could have been much worse.”

Anyone with information about the incident can contact Dorset Police at www.dorset.police.uk or by calling 101, quoting occurrence number 55240160230.