A mum lost five stone in the space of five months after being hit by a van.
Kirstine McCord, from Birkdale, said she piled on the pounds during lockdown after suffering from back and hip pain. But things came to a head after she was involved in a road traffic accident while visiting a charity shop in Ainsdale.
The mum-of-two told the ECHO: "I went to put things in the charity shop. My mum was across the road in her car, and I went back to walk across the road and a van reversed and hit me. He just didn't see me.
