THE mother of a man who was left fighting for his life after a serious car crash has urged the driver who fled the scene to hand himself in.

Linda Wilson told of the horrifying moment she found out her son, Derek Conway had been travelling in the taxi that was involved in the crash at the junction of Harper Green Road and Plodder Lane in Farnworth.

Mr Conway, aged 32, has been conscious, but in a critical condition at Salford Royal Hospital since the crash. He suffered a broken pelvis, broken legs and broken ribs and has had a bleeding spleen.

He was thrown from the Cobra taxi when it was in collision with a Vauxhall Astra on Sunday night.

The taxi then it collided with a Premier convenience store. The driver of the Astra reversed into a wall, then got out of his car and ran from the scene of the crash.

Miss Wilson said: “He remembers getting the taxi and I don’t think he remembers much after that. I don’t think he remembers how he ended up in the road. He said he remembers a woman talking to him.”

Mr Conway, who lives with his mother in Farnworth, has already had surgery and will need more on his pelvis but doctors are delaying the procedure until his spleen has healed.

Miss Wilson urged the driver to own up to what he did.

She said: “I am not very happy about it. I think he should own up to his responsibilities. He has put two people in hospital for the sake of racing a car about.”

Eyewitnesses reported the Astra speeding and driving on the wrong side of the road prior to the crash.

Mr Conway was helping his mother look after his nephew at his sister’s house in Little Hulton when she asked him to go to her house.

She said: “Derek was staying here to help me as well. He had gone to my other property to get some dog food for me and some other bits that were in my fridge to bring here.

“I had ordered him the taxi. I was thinking ‘this taxi has taken a long time’.”

Miss Wilson’s daughter then rang her after hearing about the crash to make sure everyone was ok.

She said: “I got a funny feeling. I rang the taxi company. The man on the phone said 'you need to ring Hope Hospital urgently'.

“It was awful, I just thought ‘oh my god’.”

A number of people rushed to help Mr Conway after the crash and Miss Wilson said she wanted to thank them.

She said: “I do appreciate it. I am very grateful to the people who helped him, I want to thank them all.”

The driver of the taxi was also taken to hospital following the crash but his condition is not life threatening.

Miss Wilson said: “My son is a good lad at heart. He is well known in that area that he lives in. He would do anything for anyone. He has been through a lot. He didn’t really need this to happen. I wish I had never sent him for the stuff.”

Anybody with information should contact the GMP Serious Collision Investigation Unit on 0161 856 474.