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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Benjamin Roberts-Haslam

Hit and run driver 'should be ashamed of himself' after teen sent 'flying' into windscreen

A mum has hit out at a hit and run driver who flung her son into the windscreen of his own car almost two years ago.

Matthew Baker was on his way to McDonald's when his blue Renault Clio was hit by a David Hargreaves' Vauxhall Astra van at a red light on Bispham Road in Southport at around 11.30pm on Monday, June 14, 2021. The 17-year-old at the time suffered a concussion as well as shock and was later treated at hospital.

Now 19, Matthew has spent 18 months trying to get over the incident, with his mum, Dawn Baker, telling the ECHO: "Matthew's still quite numb because he was dragged him through the courts instead of him [Hargreaves] just telling the truth.

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