A TWO-YEAR-OLD girl died after being hit by a car in a low-speed collision, an inquest heard.

Bethany Wood was out playing on June 30 last year when she was struck by a Citroen Saxo.

The tragedy happened in Wilkes Avenue, Leasowe, as driver Lisa Berry returned from a shopping trip with her friend, her partner and her daughter, at around 2.20pm that afternoon.

In a statement given by Miss Berry, and read by coroner’s officer Donald Johnston, yesterday’s inquest at Wallasey Town Hall heard: “I started screaming and took my hands off the wheel and my feet off the pedals.

“I didn’t know what I would have done if I could have done anything, I just started screaming.”

The front of the Saxo struck Bethany at around 10mph, and she was pulled under the car, before it rolled up a kerb and onto the grass verge.

The little girl, who would have been three a fortnight later, was left lying on the road behind the car.

Miss Berry’s partner, Malcolm Mawdsley, said in his statement: “I realised there was someone on the road and then I saw a very young girl lying on the road and behind the car.

“She wasn’t moving, apart from her head.”

An ambulance was called, and Bethany was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital where she later died.