A PREGNANT mum clawed herself free from under a car with her fingernails to save her unborn baby after a hit-and-run driver.
Aaliyah Lunn, 23, was pinned under the vehicle with the wheels spinning inches from her head and the weight of the front axle pressed on her six-month bump.
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Aaliyah Lunn, 23, clawed herself free from under a car with her fingernails Credit: SWNS 5
She saved unborn baby Shay by wiggling herself out Credit: SWNS 5
Jack Richardson was sentenced to five years Credit: SWNS
She was walking back from the pub when driver Jack Richardson, 25, rammed into her in Stourbridge, West Midlands.
Richardson was enraged when he saw his ex's new boyfriend in the boozer last June.
He shot a man three times in the leg with a BB gun before leaving, and later reversed into Aaliyah at high speed as she left.
Brave Aaliyah said: “At first I didn’t feel any pain – I must have been going in and out of consciousness.
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"When I came round all I could see where the car tyres above me still spinning.
“All I could remember was saying to myself ‘I am going to die and ‘what about my baby’. I had no other option to wriggle myself further under the car to get free.
“Both of my legs were totally numb and my foot was hanging off. I had to use my fingernails to drag myself from underneath the car.
“The car could have come down on me at any moment and I was screaming and shouting.
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"When I was finally out from under the car I just lay on the ground feeling my stomach but I couldn’t feel my baby moving.
“I thought I had lost my baby and had lost my foot. I was drifting in out of consciousness.
“I was just screaming ‘my baby, my baby, it is not moving, somebody please help me.’
"Then there were armed police all around me. My foot was in pieces – I had a seven-inch gap on my foot and it was hanging off.”
She was taken for emergency surgery at Russell Hall Hospital in Dudley.
And five weeks later she gave birth to 7lbs 3oz Shay Bustin.
Aaliyah snapped every nerve and tendon in her foot. It will never fully recover.
She was bed-bound for six weeks after her foot surgery and had carers four times a day.
Shay, now eight months, has a tilted neck to the left because the crash meant one muscle is shorter than the other. He also has breathing problems and is constantly poorly.
Aaliyah added: "My son suffered for the first few weeks of his life all because of one man and his actions."
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Richardson admitted two counts of grievous bodily harm, two counts of actual bodily harm, possession of an imitation firearm with intent, possession of cannabis, driving without insurance.
He was sentenced to five years at Wolverhampton crown court.
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Aaliyah thought she would die when she was trapped under the car Credit: SWNS 5
The crash took place in a pub car park Credit: SWNS