Just a quick follow up..... My husband came home from work and believes its best for both sides, us and the driver to do it all through his insurence. The driver believes the same so there will be no meeting him as planned. And i have just contacted them. Im guessing im in for quite a wait now.... Apart from a little melt down earlier im feeling much stonger about doing this and hopefully will recover my costs through the insurence if not i will try and go through a solicitor. Thankyou to everyone who replied.

Ow it just all seems a mess

If the driver didnt live on my street i dont think we would of approached him, the police passed on all his insurence details to us and we would of just gone straight through them. Infact the main reason my husband went round was to show him my little boy was fine as we appreciate it must of been horrific for him to see as well, the driver has also confirmed to us that he would like to see him. I have also said to my husband that i think its maybe best for him as well as us to go through the insurence as like you have rightly said some people would then make a future claim. I have no problem going through his insurence, and im not expecting him to say here have a load of cash to compensate you. Infact i can see it being the opposite. And to be honest part of me wonders if persuing the cost of my pushchair is really worth it.

As i have said before i am only wanting my costs not a penny more, and wasnt sure if i was entitled to that.

As his car was on our street ive seen it, there are a few scuff marks where we hit his land rover but thats it.

@heliosuk as ive said before i also view this as an accident, and this is why ive said i dont want to go through no win no fee and turn it into a money making opportunity. When it comes to visability i was already halfway across the road, i hadnt stepped off the pavement into his path. And the police had said that the sun had reflected of the wet road and thats why they believe he didnt see me.

The police said that he had proved the best he could he wasnt on his phone, by showing no txts or calls had been made at that time. He had sat in his car a good 10 mins before getting out (possibly in shock himself) but had pulled out of the street he had knocked us from and pulled in 20ft down the road. Im guessing with no proof of speeding, being on his phone or alchohol in his system, and a neutral witness, its hard to take further legal action. I wouldnt want that either and im pretty sure he wont make the same mistake again. I think your right he had drove down the road a million times and just drove down it not pating attention, unfortunately for us!

Yes it happend 5 minutes from where i live and also where the driver lives. I honestly believe he was distracted, i dont believe the sun in his eyes at all. I truely believe it was an accident and i do feel some what for the driver, it must of been horrible for him too but i would love to know why he didnt see us. Hopefully its all a step in the right direction!

What a small world!

Ive told my husband that, part of me thinks its just better to go through his insurence anyway. But we shall see how it goes. I feel so much better, i was so worried that i was to blame and put my sons life at risk. But this forum has helped. Im sorry about your sister, its tough loosing a sibling. you feel like you have to be the strong one for your parents. I lost my brother to suicide, its almost his 2 year anniversary and as bad as that time was this feels so much worse. He really must of been with us that day.

I will keep you all updated. I just hope the driver is okay with us. Never believed in it before but i lost my brother 2 years ago, maybe just maybe he was there that day. Im certainly not brave, my little bobbins is being the strong one, hes only 2 but looking after me. Im hoping it will all be over soon and back to normal

I really am lucky, someone must of been watching over us that day. Thankyou for all your kind words and help.

My son (apart from looking like hes been hit by a car!! ) is back to his lovely funny usual self, he doesnt remember what happened he just says he doesnt like nee nars ( ambulances) any more, because he can remember them strapping him down and to him that was more traumatic. Im in no doubt that he will be fine. I will be fine, its still early days but i have a fantastic supportive husband. They have arranged a meeting this weekend, to discuss our losses. If hes happy to pay or happy to go through his insurence then im happy for it to be over and done with and to try and move on. I was just concerned if he said it was my fault and refused to pay or worse tried to claim of us.

There was no skidmarks, the policeman said that concluded he wasnt speeding. The driver never braked and hit with enough force to push my son across the road sideways, both of the back wheels of the push chair were completely snapped off and the strong frame dented. I believe the driver was distracted but thats just my opinion. I have had no contact with him, i cant and dont want to see him. My husband has spoke to him, he seemed fine said he was glad we were ok, my hubby also offered to take my son round to show he was ok and said they would need to discuss things as we had lost an expensive pushchair. This hasnt happened yet so not sure how it will go

The police passed on his insurance details, to make matters worse he lives on our street, however we have never seen him before.

I would be happy to claim back just losses, i wasnt sure if i could do that with the police not taking any further action and classing it as an accident. I was also worried incase the driver blamed me and tried to claim from me. Dealing with solicitors or no win no fee just doesn't seem worth all the added stress to be honest.

I have seen my GP they were very supportive and said at the moment i need to work through it to be able to get over it.

Thankyou for your replies. The police never took a statement from me, apparently there was another 3 people hit by cars at exactly the same time around the area (not sure what this had to do with my incident?) they also had a witness, the lady who thankfully picked my little boy out of the road as he was the other side to where i was. Apparently she was completely neutral and confirmed he wasn't speeding. In fairness to the driver its a horrible downhill road with a bend at the top and admittedly i couldn't see all the to the top. There is no special (eg traffic lights) crossing area but where i crossed would be the natural crossing area (if that makes sense? Where the curb drops and leads straight onto the path forward. And he should of seen me in plenty of time to be able to stop, he never beeped, swerved or braked. He also needed to stop at that point to be able to turn left or right. So im confused as to why he never saw us. Admittedly the shock has been horrendous, i thought my little boy was dead and i cant seem to shake that, i have nightmares, cant sleep, eat and im too scared to go out. To be honest i want it all over and done with and not sure i can cope with any long insurance claims that keep bringing the incident up. Im also not sure if i cope if insurers said i was to blame

Hello all, I was recently hit by a car whilst pushing my toddler in a pram. I had looked to see if any cars were coming and started to cross, i was almost on the pavement when i heard a car so sped up to get on the pavement but when i looked the car just hit into us. It knocked me to the ground but flipped my son in his pushchair 15ft sideways onto the opposite road into oncoming traffic. Thankfully apart from a very swollen and cut face he is fine and only stayed one night in hospital, i pulled some muscles from the pushchair being ripped away from me and some small cuts, we were very lucky! The police concluded it was an accident wrong place at the wrong time and something about sun reflecting from the wet floor so driver didnt see me, he wasnt speeding. I do not want to claim compensation for any injuries, we are all fine and it was an accident, we contacted the driver to let him know we were both okay as it must of been horrific for him also. However we are down on a £600 pram which is smashed to bits and without a doubt saved my sons life, his new christmas clothes that were cut from him in the ambulance, as well as missed wages for myself and husband. Is it wrong for me to claim these expenses from the driver? I dont want to make money from this horrible inccident but these are items we are now down on, or should i just forget and move on and accept the loss?