A MOTHER has urged a speeding driver, who abandoned her and her young children in their wrecked car after crashing into them, to give himself up.

Police are trying to trace the young motorist who left dispensing optician Laura Pearce, and her sons, aged nine and five, scared and shocked after the crash.

The family was confronted by a dark grey Volkswagen Golf when it hurtled round a corner on a narrow country lane as she drove her sick son to the doctor.

The Volkswagen ended up on two wheels, wedged between Mrs Pearce's Ford Fiesta and a garden wall, after the smash in New Lane, Tong, Bradford, at 4.45pm last Friday.

Miss Pearce, 29, of Tong, said she was slowing down for a corner when she saw the other car speeding towards her.

"He slammed on his brakes but I could see he wasn't going to stop in time. He looked petrified. It all happened so fast. I braced myself and his car went into the side of mine. I heard a crunching sound.

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"The other driver pulled himself out of his window on to my bonnet and slid to the ground. He ran round and opened my passenger door. I was scared and my children in the back were upset.

"He said we had to get off the road. He took my handbrake off and pushed my car back. I thought he was going to help. His car was creaking. It must have dropped down. I turned round to check my children were all right and before I knew it the other driver had screeched past and disappeared up the lane."

Miss Pearce said her car, which she had bought for £2,800 only seven months before, could be a write off. She is borrowing her sister's car but will then have to hire one.

She added: "He shouldn't have been driving at that speed. Accidents do happen, but to drive off and abandon us in our car like that was disgusting.

"I would urge anyone who knows this person, or the driver himself if he has a conscience, to contact the police. He shouldn't be allowed to scare someone and their children like that. It's not fair."

The driver of the Volkswagen was a white man in his early to mid 20s, slim, with stubble and shortish brown hair. He was wearing trainers, a dark tracksuit and a light T-shirt.

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said the incident was being treated as dangerous driving.

Officers have spoken to the victim and work continues to identify and trace the male driver of the other vehicle, a grey Volkswagen Golf, he said.

Anyone with information is asked to contact West Yorkshire Police via 101, quoting crime reference number 13150104842.