Crash girl's 'brilliant' recovery

Becky Jones suffered extensive head injuries

A girl who was critically injured when a car struck her in a hit-and-run at a bus stop has returned home from hospital months earlier than expected.

Becky Jones, 16, was hit by a green Vauxhall Vectra at the bus shelter in Church Road, Stainforth, South Yorkshire, on 20 December.

She suffered a severe brain injury and in January her mother said she feared the teenager would not walk again.

Becky, who missed her GCSE exams, is now continuing her recovery at home.

Three men were arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving and failing to stop after the crash. They were later bailed and no one has been charged.

Becky, from Doncaster, who has had to learn to walk and talk again, said she was "very proud" of her progress.

'So angry'

But she told BBC News: "Cars scare me and I daren't stand at a bus stop any more.

"I don't like it out there anymore, unless I'm with my mum."

In January Becky's mother Samantha Bowman said she did not know if her daughter would walk again and she was expected to be in hospital for at least a year.

She said the crash had "totally changed our lives".

"I am getting her up, I have to bath her and wash her, make sure her teeth are done and basically feed her," she said.

"She's started again from being a baby but she's doing brilliant, she really is an amazing child."

Mrs Bowman appealed for anyone who knows who was in the car to come forward.

She said: "At the end of the day it was an accident but I am so angry that they have left her there for dead basically.

"She's scared to death and I think if they got caught and [were] off the roads Becky would feel safer out there."