A foot on a wrong pedal left a car hanging perilously from the bank of a property yesterday afternoon.

Relatives of a grieving mum desperately tried to save her life after she was hit in a Waikato road smash - just days after she had laid her son to rest.

Motorists arriving on the scene of a road smash rushed to comfort two critically injured young girls.

The family of a boy struck by a vehicle in Hamilton yesterday have offered support to the 17-year-old driver. Shaun Malthus remains in a critical condition at Waikato Hospital.