Ten-year-old Jason Smith was left with his leg broken in two places after a thug playing a dare game in his car smashed into him on a football pitch.

The youngster, who was playing football with friends, was rammed against a wall by the force of the impact.

Today his mum, Anne, said that the crazy handbrake-turn stunt could have killed her son.

And she revealed that just a few weeks before the incident her son had been involved in another collision when he had been injured in a hit-and-run accident in the street..

Mrs Smith, 38, of Springfield Avenue, Scholemoor demanded to know why the car was able to be driven on to the pitch at Scholemoor Activities and Coaching Centre in Bradford.

"Jason got knocked over in a hit-and-run incident at the start of the six week holidays," said Mrs Smith, .

"He only suffered a few bruises, but the police said a safe place to play was on the astroturf pitch.

"It is supposed to be safe so why was a car there? It could have killed Jason.".

And she claims no one from the Council has contacted her about the incident.

The force of the impact threw Jason Smith against a building at Scholemoor Activities and Coaching Centre.

Jason, who was ten yesterday, suffered two broken bones in his right leg and faces up to ten weeks in hospital for extensive skin grafts.

The incident happened as he was playing football with pals on the Bradford Council-owned all-weather pitch in Dracup Avenue.

Mrs Smith said her son was playing with friends when a man in a car began speeding round the pitch.

She said the driver was doing handbrake turns and getting ever closer to the children.

"He just got too close to Jason and smacked straight into him. The council should be taking steps to ensure this does not happen again," she said.

Jason's dad, Mohammed Ayub, who works at the hospital as a porter, said: "I can't understand how anyone could think of taking a car on there when kids are playing - it's run by the council and they can't man it properly.

"If the kids are not safe to play on there, where are they safe? The surgeon said Jason was lucky not to lose his leg."

Jason will be interviewed by detectives from the child support unit at Eccleshill when he is discharged from Bradford Royal Infirmary where he underwent his third leg operation on Monday.

Mrs Smith said: "He's been very brave since the accident. He hasn't cried once and I bought him a Manchester United strip for his birthday, which really cheered him up."

Jason, who is a pupil at Clayton Middle School, said the car had been driving close to him and his friends and then skidding to a halt.

"He was playing chicken with us. The third time he skidded too far and went into me.

"He got out of the car and started kicking it and shouting. I can't remember after that."

Mrs Smith said: "There was a drainpipe on the side of the wall and that took the full impact otherwise it would have pinned him by both legs."

A Bradford Council spokesman said it was seeking to ban the car driver from all its recreation sites.

He said: "We obviously did not expect anyone to drive on to the pitch, but in view of this incident we intend to extend the perimeter fencing so people cannot do so."

An 18-year-old man was questioned by police at Toller Lane police station in connection with the incident and released on bail pending further inquiries.

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