By Hayley Robinson

A mum traumatised after her four-year-old daughter was hit by a car is urging people to get behind her road safety campaign.

More than 400 people are supporting Charlotte Baldock's campaign for a zebra crossing at Grovehurst Road, Kemsley, and nearly 3,000 people have signed up to the Facebook group Grovehurst Road Needs a Pedestrian Crossing!

Mrs Baldock feared her daughter Elloise was dead after she was hit by a car close to Grovehurst Newsagency on Monday, March 29.

The mum of three, pushing five-month-old Ashton in his pushchair, was waiting to cross the road and while talking to her other son Michael, two, she heard a "thud" and turned to see Elloise lying in the road.

The youngster suffered a head injury and was taken to Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham before being transferred to a specialist plastic surgery unit at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead where she underwent surgery on her face.

Mrs Baldock, 24, of Samuel Drive, said: "Lots of people cross that road and it's a busy road.

"I'm not asking for traffic lights to be installed but a zebra crossing so at least pedestrians have the right of way. There needs to be two though, one up by the pharmacy and one near the park off Grovehurst Avenue."

The family is moving to Ashford.

She said: "Elloise goes to Tinkerbells Play School in Iwade, I don't drive so I have to walk her there.

"To get her to play school I have to walk up Grovehurst Road, cross the entrance to the A249 and the exit of the A249 to get to the village. It's too dangerous and every time I walk along Grovehurst Road I panic and visualise Elloise lying in the road.

"We move on May 1, but I'm still going to continue with the campaign as I don't want this to happen to anyone else."