'I answered a stranger's call and heard my son screaming, I was so scared'

A mum has described the terrifying moment she answered a phone call from a stranger to hear her son screaming in the background.

Louise Ollerhead picked up a call from a woman who had heard a 'bang' on a street, the Liverpool Echo reports. She said she could then hear her 11-year-old son Marley screaming in the background of the call.

The woman told Louise that Marley had been run over but 'seemed ok'. The mum rushed to the scene within minutes, before Marley was taken to hospital by police.

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Marley, who had gone to McDonald's with his friends, was struck by a van as he cycled across the pedestrian crossing at the junction of Claughton Road and Exmouth Street in Birkenhead. He suffered a broken wrist and a hairline fracture to his elbow in the shocking incident which happened at around 7.45pm on November 20.

Merseyside Police confirmed the van, described as silver or grey in colour, failed to stop after it hit Marley and has yet to be identified. The force confirmed CCTV enquiries are ongoing in the area to identify the vehicle.

Louise, 43, said: "He was crossing at a junction and had waited for the green man. When the green man came on he went to cross the road but a van went through and hit his back wheel.

"He said he flew up in the air and when he landed he looked up and saw a grey van driving away." Louise said a male pedestrian stopped and waited with her son but had to soon leave.

She added she received a phone call from a woman who didn't see the incident but heard 'the bang' when the van hit Marley's bike. The mum said: "My mum is in hospital and I had just got home when I got the call.

"I heard Marley screaming in the back of