A DRIVER has been told she is lucky to be alive after a hit-and-run road crash caused her van to flip over on to its side.
Rosemary Greig, 54, was driving along Heath Road, towards Clay Lane, Weeley Heath, when the smash happened on Friday at 11.20am.
As she reached the crossroads, a black van shot out without stopping and crunched into the side of her vehicle.
The force knocked Mrs Greig’s van on to its side and it scraped along the road before hitting the verge.
A shaken Mrs Greig managed to get out of her van to check on German shepherd dog Millie, who was in the back of the vehicle but escaped injury.
The black van kept driving towards Weeley without stopping.
Mrs Greig, of Clay Lane, St Osyth, said: “It was terrifying. The person driving the other van didn’t stop. They left me for dead for all they knew.”
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