A 45-YEAR-OLD man told a jury he screamed in horror when he saw he had run over a woman in the street.

Mohammed Gulraiz, who was taking five children to school that morning, said from the witness box at Bradford Crown Court: "I felt like it was the Day of Judgement for me."

He today told how he stopped his car immediately and was helped by up to six people to lift the vehicle off the women, who was lying head first in the road.

He shouted for people to call the police and an ambulance and covered her with his jacket until help arrived.

Gulraiz, of St Paul’s Road, Manningham, Bradford, denies causing the death of Nasreen Bibi by careless driving at about 9am on February 18 last year.

During the trial, Mrs Bibi's daughter, Aisha Bibi, told how she screamed for the driver to stop when the front of the car struck her mother and she was dragged underneath.

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Mrs Bibi, 56, died of a traumatic brain injury ten days after she was hit by Gulraiz's blue Vauxhall Zafira when he was pulling left out of Back Blenheim Road on to Church Street, Manningham.

Prosecutor Nikki Peers alleges Gulraiz failed to check to his left, where the two women were standing on the pavement, before moving out of the junction.

Miss Peers said pedestrians had right of way across the mouth of the cobbled lane.

Gulraiz told the court he was in first gear and moving very slowly when he heard someone screaming at him to stop.

He had looked left, then right and seen a gap in the busy traffic.

"When I saw the lady I started screaming as well. I thought I had killed somebody.

"I felt like it was the Day of Judgement for me," he said.

Asked by his solicitor advocate, Mohammed Hussain, how he felt when he was told that Mrs Bibi had died, Gulraiz replied: "I feel extremely bad about it, particularly for her family."

He had been prescribed anti-depressants by his doctor afterwards.

"I was sure the ladies would not go in front of the car because they would have to go on to the main road to do that," he said.

Gulraiz said he had travelled that route hundreds of times before and he did nothing differently that day.

The trial continues.