A worried mum today urged the runaway driver who left her son with serious injuries to give himself up to police.

Mandy Patterson made a personal appeal to the motorist who brought her ten-year-old boy home after an accident but then sped off after giving a false name and address.

As her son Damien Singh recovered from a skin graft in hospital, Miss Patterson said: "What kind of a person could do this?

"The driver had a child with him in the car at the time. How would he like it if it happened to them?"

Damien, a Bradford Moor Primary School pupil, was involved in an accident as he crossed Otley Road in Bradford at around 5pm last Saturday. Miss Patterson said the youngster had been half-way across a crossing by St Augustine's Terrace when the traffic lights turned green.

"He saw two cars in the road but thought they would stop because they had seen him," said Miss Patterson.

But one car - thought to be a blue/green Nissan - was in collision with Damien and left him with serious injuries to his left ankle.

The middle-aged Asian driver, who was with an Asian woman and small child, drove Damien and two friends back to his house in Komla Close, off Church Bank.

"He dropped him off outside and gave him a piece of paper with the name Saleem, an address in Lonsdale Street and two telephone numbers on it which all turned out to be false," said the mum-of-four.

The youngster was rushed to Bradford Royal Infirmary where he underwent a skin graft on a deep gash to his ankle.

Since then, Miss Patterson and her partner, Francis Bell, 24, have kept a vigil at his bedside.

"I am just hoping that he will be all right and there is no permanent damage," said Miss Patterson.

"I would ask the driver to listen to his conscience and go and speak to the police about it."

Police appealed for any witnesses to the accident, on Otley Road by the junction with St Augustine's Terrace, to come forward.

Anyone with information should contact PC Clapham at Bradford North Traffic police on (01274) 376247.