Boy, 7, screams 'drive mum, drive' as thugs try to smash way into car with machete

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BirminghamLive: "It's traumatising."We are all a little bit naïve in the fact that we don't think it'll happen to us. But it stays with you."I'm so paranoid now.

Every little noise my son is jumping at."He's running from the door, he doesn't want to go to school, he doesn't want to leave the house.

We can't go to the shop."I'm too scared to walk to the shop now, too scared to walk the dog. We're going to be prisoners in our own home."Recalling the moment the glass broke, she added: "Whatever the weapon was I think they expected it should smash straight away on the first go, but as you can see, it bounces off the window."One of them had a machete which he retrieved from his waistband."My son was screaming: 'Mum, drive, drive mum'.

I remember saying to him: 'I'm trying, I'm trying'."I don't know how we managed to get away, I really don't."Once the driver managed to escape, she parked up down the road, dialled 999, and waited for someone to arrive.She has since shared the chilling footage above on Facebook in an urgent appeal for information.West Midlands Police said: "Anyone with information can contact us via Live Chat on our website, or by calling 101, and quote 20/332921/22.".