TODDLER Jessica Dryden, who was knocked down in a tragic accident earlier this week, is out of danger and crying for her mum.

The four-year-old was hit by a car outside her home in Ryefield Avenue, Penwortham, on Monday evening, while playing with friends.

Six-year-old Jack Heatley watched Jessica being catapulted into the air as a car struck her when she stepped off the curb during a game of toy dinosaurs.

Jack's mum Maxine Heatley claims the street is a death trap, and it was an accident waiting to happen.

She said: "For six months residents have been campaigning the police, the council, and our local representative Howard Gore for taffic calming measures. They all say their hands are tied and they only have so much money, but to me lives are more important than money.

"Does someone have to die before they do something?"

Councillor Gore told the Citizen he was liaising with council chiefs in a bid to resolve the problem.

Maxine and six-year-old Jack have sent Jessica a bouquet of flowers, and her other friends in the street have had a big collection for her.

Maxine said: "Jessica is off the ventilator and awake."

She said Jessica is usually a bubbly child, always giggling and full of fun. The toddler is surrounded by her family at the moment in Manchester's Pendlebury Children's Hospital, where doctors say Jessica's condition is now improving.