A family is fuming after a bike rider knocked over their four-year-old and left him for dead.

Luckily Ezzyia Bean suffered only a broken nose and cuts and bruises after being struck side on by a large bike on Orchard Grove, Pembroke on Saturday night.

He had been walking along the narrow unlit road with his auntie and uncle and their two children when the bike roared out of the darkness.

His auntie Afnik Willams-Hyde said: ?It happened so quick, it was going so fast.? She said she vainly raised her arms to wave at the oncoming rider and added: ?It hit my nephew and I saw him roll. I thought he was dead. But then he was screaming.?

After the accident, she said she ran into a neighbour?s house to call for an ambulance.

Ezzyia?s mother Norlicia, 21, who was working in a shop in Court Street that night, rushed to the house to see her son.

She said: ?He was screaming and crying. His face was just covered in blood.?

She said she was so traumatised she could not go inside the hospital. ?I stayed outside and paced. All I saw was too much blood.?

That night Norlicia had to monitor her son?s breathing as he slept and has done so ever since.

?He had blood coming out of his nose and ears. I haven?t had any sleep since Sunday.?

She has had to take time off work to look after Ezzyia who goes to Devonshire Preschool.

Norlicia, from Warwick, said of the hit and run rider: ?I want everyone to know the effect of what he did to my son.

?It could have been a lot worse. My son could have died. I think it?s disgusting what this guy did. He didn?t even stop to see what he had hit.?

She hopes someone might have noticed blood on the bike and report the culprit.

?I am hoping something can come out of it. I am hoping someone will step forward.?

And Ezzyia said: ?He was speeding. I think he should say sorry to me.?

Reflecting on the night Mrs Williams-Hyde said: ?I thought we were only going two steps so what could possibly happen? I now know.?

She believes the biker must live in the area considering how fast he was going down a narrow unlit lane without his lights on.

?Anyone who didn?t know the road would not ride like that.?

She believes from the noise it made the bike is one of the larger models but she said Police had little to go on despite finding one of the bike?s indicators.

?I wish it had hit me instead of the boy. I just can?t get it out of my head.?

Police are appealing for witnesses to call 295 0011.