Family movie night turns into 'worst nightmare' after Asda trip

A family says a cosy night in quickly turned into a 'nightmare' following an accident at their local Asda supermarket.

Samantha Rylance, 25, had taken her partner Callum and their two children to pick up some treats for a movie night, but disaster struck when her youngest son suffered a serious head injury on Saturday (December 7).

Speaking about the traumatic event, Samantha explained how Kaelen, aged six, was playing in the aisle before he collided with a roll cage, leaving him with a nasty gash on his head. But she expressed immense gratitude towards the "amazing" Asda staff who rushed to assist the family in need.

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Describing the chilling moment, Samantha said: "It was a nightmare. He [Kaelen] was messing about in the aisle, running up and down. He had run and turned around to look at me and his dad and had not seen the cage and ran straight into it. He bounced off it - it was one of the big roll cages - and smacked his head.

"I didn’t know how bad it was at first, it was his dad, Callum, who picked him up and shouted to me ‘his head.’ He brought him over to me shouting Sam ‘his head,’ it looked like a scene out of a horror film. There was no skin, his head was just red with blood, it poured with blood.

"I just scooped him up, bearing in mind I'm 23 weeks pregnant, and ran with him. There was a trail of blood behind us, I was screaming for people to move out of our way. We ran to the pharmacy [inside Asda]. The woman in the pharmacy stopped serving everyone to help, she was amazing.", reports the Liverpool Echo.

The mum recalled the incident as her "worst nightmare," saying: "I couldn't function, my hands froze. She kept