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Impatient OAP 'nudged' pram off pedestrian crossing with her car

Mum Keranne Jones and OAP Joyce Jenkins (WNS)
Mum Keranne Jones and OAP Joyce Jenkins (WNS)

A pensioner drove her car into a pram holding a nine-month-old baby to push it off a pedestrian crossing, a court has heard.

Joyce Jenkins, 73, is accused of using her car to ‘nudge’ the pram off the crossing when the traffic lights turned green.

Mum Keranne Jones, 26, told how she was pushing baby daughter Amelia across the road when the lights changed as Jenkins waited in her blue Ford Fiesta.

Miss Jones said: ‘The blue car started edging forward. I stopped the pram just in case the driver didn’t see me.

The road where the incident took place (WNS)
The road where the incident took place (WNS)

But Miss Jones said she then carried on crossing towards the central reservation after believing Jenkins had stopped.

She told how the Fiesta began to ‘edge forward with the driver pointing towards the lights and saying something’.

Swansea Crown Court then heard that both women shouted at each other on the busy pedestrian crossing on the dual carriageway at Carmarthen Road in Swansea.

Joyce Jenkins, 73, denies the charges (WNS)
Joyce Jenkins, 73, denies the charges (WNS)

But Miss Jones said the Fiesta again ‘moved forward and nudged the pram’.

She said: ‘It caused it to swing around to the left.

‘She had no intention of stopping. It was just to get through those lights whether we were there or not.’

Miss Jones and her mother-in-law Amanda Rowe were together pushing little Amelia in the pram.

Mum Keranne Jones said the car ‘nudged the pram’ (WNS)
Mum Keranne Jones said the car ‘nudged the pram’ (WNS)

The mum said a man was already at the crossing waiting to cross the dual carriageway – and the light changed by the time they arrived.

Miss Jones told the jury she followed the man across the crossing when the ‘green man’ light was showing.

But as she got halfway across the two lanes the green man began to flash.

Miss Jones denied she ‘taken a chance’ with the lights only to be stranded in the middle of the road when the traffic moved off.

Miss Jones said: ‘I was crossing properly.’

Mother-in-law Mrs Rowe told how Jenkins had ‘edged forward’ when they were half way across as the green man light started flashing.

The trial is continuing at Swansea Crown Court (WNS)
The trial is continuing at Swansea Crown Court (WNS)

The court heard Jenkins, of Mayhill, Swansea, later told police she did not drive towards the pram – and did not make contact with it.

Jenkins denies dangerous driving.

The trial continues.