EVERY parents' worst nightmare...the graphically true comment today by an East Lancashire father who ran over and horribly injured his toddler son while reversing his car down his drive.

Yet, he has another nightmare - that people might find out who he is.

Why is that when, in such dreadful circumstances, he and his family deserve only public sympathy and support?

Amazingly, it transpires that after an earlier and equally-awful accident in our region in which a child was killed by a parent reversing a car, the family, in the midst of their terrible grief, actually got hate mail.

How sick! And how unforgivable!

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