A TEENAGE girl and her young baby narrowly escaped being killed when a car mounted the pavement before ploughing through a barrier.

Megan Stiles, 16, was “thrown into the air” when a car driven by an 88-year-old man struck her at Clacton Train Station.

The teenager was with her boyfriend Lewis Jones and her one-year-old son when the terrifying ordeal unfolded.

With barely a second to react, Mr Jones managed to push the baby’s buggy out of the path of the car.

The vehicle smashed through the station’s metal railings, stopping just metres from the railway tracks.

Miss Stiles, who says it may be weeks before she can walk unaided again, needed five staples in the back of her head.

She spent seven hours undergoing treatment at Colchester General Hospital.

The mum said: “We were just about to leave but all of a sudden I woke up on the floor.

“I can’t remember anything in between - I blacked out. Apparently I was chucked up into the air.

“My boyfriend just managed to move the baby out of the way, [the car] clipped the buggy.”

The driver of the car was also taken to Colchester General Hospital, though his condition is not believed to be serious.

Miss Stiles, from Clacton, says she does not blame him for the crash.

She added: “One of the first things I said when I woke up was: ‘Did he do it on purpose?’

“The other was: ‘Am I going to die?’

“He had a heart problem he only found out about after the crash.

“It is going to take weeks to be able to walk properly and I have damaged a nerve in my thigh. I was shaking, the ambulance took me and put me straight on gas and air.

“It has left me feeling really anxious.”

She added: “In the car coming back from the hospital my dad was driving.

“He is a driving instructor, but I didn’t even feel safe with him.

“It really shook me up; I was told if we were 2ins to the left I would have died. I just wanted to know if the baby was okay when I woke up.”

Miss Stiles was left with a cut to her head, a swollen foot and a wound to her thigh.

Following the crash, British Transport Police confirmed it would be investigating the cause.

Firefighters were on the scene and cut the pensioner free from the car.

The crash happened at about 12.45pm on Friday, at the station in Skelmersdale Road.