by Keith Hunt

A mother deliberately drove at a pregnant woman during a terrifying road rage incident, a court heard.

Emma Harrington told how she thought she would be killed when mown down by Gemma Fraiser’s car.

After being knocked to the ground, the 25-year-old victim tried to protect herself with her hands as she came face-to-face with the tyres.

She suffered cuts and grazes to her neck, both hands and wrists, as well as whiplash to her neck and back. Her leggings were ripped and her skirt had a hole in it.

Fraiser, of Coombe Road, Tovil, Maidstone, denied dangerous driving and assault causing actual bodily harm but was convicted by a jury.

Maidstone Crown Court heard how the trouble flared just after 9pm in Lidsing Road, Hempstead, Gillingham, on January 14.

The two women were each driving a Peugeot 209 when they found they could not pass in the road.

Words were exchanged and a beer can was thrown by Fraiser’s boyfriend from the front passenger seat. Also in the car were her two children, aged four and six.

The can went through Miss Harrington’s open window, hitting her arm. She drove away but then turned around and followed Fraiser, 27, to get her registration number to report the matter.

She caught up with the other car and it stopped in front of her. She then decided to go home but Fraiser and her boyfriend appeared at her window, angry and shouting.

Miss Harrington’s boyfriend arrived in his BMW and the two men scuffled.
Three months pregnant Miss Harrington, who lives in Rochester, tried to split them up.

“All I remember is being hit by the car,” she said. “I felt it hit my right hip. I was stood on the pavement. I fell onto the bonnet and then onto the floor.

“My hands were all bloody and I bumped my head and my leg. I remember the car going back and coming at me again. I thought I was going to die.”

Adjourning for reports to the week beginning September 17, Judge Jeremy Carey granted bail but warned Fraiser she could face a jail sentence.

“You have clear anger management issues,” he told her.