Dad thought face was torn off as wife suffered broken chest in hit-and-run horror

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A mum has suffered a broken chest while her partner thought his face had been torn off when he was left covered in blood following a 'hit and run' horror crash.James Lindemann and his wife Rachael were being driven home by a friend from a 50th birthday party in Manchester in the early hours of February 2 when the nightmare incident took place.The group was travelling along Simonsway in Wythenshawe when dad, James says a car, ‘being driven by two young people’ from the direction of Greenbrow Road, collided with them just before 2.30am.James claims the other car involved, a black Vauxhall, was being driven at high speed.

The smash left the 50-year-old with blood ‘all over his face’, while his wife was left with a fractured sternum. But the driver and passenger in the Vauxhall fled the scene.

James told the Manchester Evening News: “Suddenly – bang – a car hit us. If it had been half a second earlier, I wouldn't be having this conversation now, the car would have gone flush into us.

I’ve got blood all over my face, I’m thinking it’s been torn off, all the airbags have gone off. “All I could shout is ‘what have you done to us?’ All I could see was blood pouring out of my face.