NEIGHBOURS in a Dartford street have told of their shock at an accident that left a 12-year-old French boy critically injured.

Celia Stone of West Hill says she heard screaming and crying from the exchange student after he was struck by a white Mini Cooper opposite her home on June 25 at around 5.30pm.

Tattoo artist Spencer Carrott told News Shopper he heard an air ambulance and watched from his shop in West Hill as the road was cordoned off by police.

The boy was flown by Kent Air Ambulance to the Royal London Hospital, where his condition was described as critical but stable.

Mrs Stone, 68, of West Hill, was sitting with her son in her front room when the accident happened outside the bus stop.

The 68-year-old said: “We heard a bang but didn’t know what was going on.

“I was watching out the window and we heard someone screaming.

“He kept crying and I was wondering why no one was giving him anything to help with the pain.

“We heard someone had pushed the boy into the road and that his foot was hanging off, all mashed up.

“I thought he was dead.

“Then the helicopter came.”

Spencer Carrott was working in his tattoo parlour in West Hill down the road from where the boy was injured.

He said: “I heard an air ambulance but I didn’t pay too much attention.

“I was speaking to someone afterwards and I heard two French boys were mucking around near the bus stop and one of them pushed the other into the road.

“A white mini hit the lad, and a motorbike swerved to avoid them.

“From what I heard, he had extensive injuries- his ankle was in pieces.

“When the ambulance picked him up, his ankle was flopping down, and I heard he also had head injuries.

“The road was cordoned off for most of the evening.”

The driver of the car stopped at the scene.

A Kent police spokesman said there have been no arrests.