BOY SAVED BY HIS SCHOOLBOOKS

Jonno, 14, was trapped face down under the Citroen Picasso for five minutes before friends managed to lift it to free him – with his ripped and battered rucksack still on his back.

The bag containing the books and lunchbox took the brunt of the impact, crushing its contents.

“I was cycling down the road and I clipped the verge because I heard a car behind me,” Jonno said. “I went over my handlebars and I remember seeing the car come towards me. I just closed my eyes and ended up underneath. The car was still moving as I fell under it. I felt the rucksack hit the car. I landed on my front with my rucksack still on my back.”

Jonno, a year 10 pupil at Heathfield Community School in Taunton, ­Somerset, escaped with a broken bone in his foot and superficial cuts and grazes. He added: “I think the rucksack saved my life.”

His mum, Rebecca Lambert, 42, a nurse, believes the incident was an accident and nobody’s fault. She said: “The rucksack took a lot of the impact and a lot of stuff in it was broken.”

She said doctors told Jonno he was lucky and his escape was miraculous.