A four-year-old autistic girl panicked and ran onto a busy road after a "red-nosed pitbull" lunged at her.
Emerald Fitzgerald said the dog "went to bite" her daughter Harper, "narrowly missing her ear" before the little girl fled due to her reduced awareness of danger.
The mum was taking her daughter and son, two, out for lunch when the attack happened in Croydon, south London, on Friday afternoon.
