A MUM whose three-year-old daughter received horrific injuries after being hit by a car, is calling on the council to reduce the speed limit on the road.

Carla Milligan, 25, is to lobby councillors for the speed along Nuttall Street, next to the Blackburn Rovers ground to be lowered from 30mph to 20mph with signs erected.

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Little Isobelle Milligan was airlifted to hospital after she survived being hurled from the bonnet of a car before being crushed under its wheels in the incident at the end of January.

Doctors at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital said they were amazed that the youngster had survived her ordeal which left her with head injuries, a bruised lung and a bleed on her liver.

Mum-of-two Carla said she watched in horror as her daughter was knocked down and frantically chased the car up the street calling for it to stop.

She was forced to abandon baby Scarlett in her pushchair to save her daughter.

Carla has been told that traffic flow will be monitored on Nuttall Street following her calls for action to prevent another accident.

She said: “According to the police that back alley is 30mph which I find ridiculous. There is no sign to say what the speed limit is.

“So basically it needs to be lowered.”

She also wants to see the narrow street sealed off with residents only gates at either end.

Little Isobelle has now left hospital but both she and Carla have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Isobelle is too afraid to return to the family home in Bolton Road, Ewood, and they are now looking to move house said Carla.

She said: “We are staying with family at the moment in Blackburn as Isobelle doesn’t want to go home. We are moving house now.

“We have seen a house in a quiet area with parking next to the house and a garden so we would not have to go in the back alley.

“We went home to get some clothes. When we asked her she said she didn’t like that street and didn’t want to go back to the old house.”

Isobelle has now got a referral to see a child psychologist for the post traumatic stress disorder.

Carla said: “She has nightmares. That’s why we took her to the doctors. Sometimes she remembers them and sometimes she doesn’t.”

Cllr Konrad Tapp of neighbouring Meadowhead ward, echoed calls for traffic measures.

He said: “They have brought in quite a few areas with 20mph limits.

“If Nuttall Street is 30mph it wouldn’t do any harm to bring it down to 20mph to make it safe.

“In my own opinion one of my favourite things is signs that show you your speed as you approach. I think people react to them.”

Cllr Julie Slater, vice-chair of Blackburn with Darwen’s Children & Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee, said there was a wider problem in Blackburn of many speed limits being too high near areas with high numbers of children.

She said: “Regarding children and road safety we need to make sure that areas like that have got a reduced speed limit.

“I am lucky where I live we have got a 20mph limit near the school. There are a lot of Labour councillors wanting areas reduced. A lot of it is drivers that speed in their own area. I think the whole of the area needs looking at for road safety.”