Callum was a normal, happy lad who loved to play football and ride his bike. Now, after a horror crash, he may never walk again.

A MAN jailed for dangerous driving has ruined a toddler's life, his devastated family said today.

Callum MacDonald, who was three at the time of the horror crash, suffered brain damage and is now in a wheelchair.

Callum's mother, Kimberley, 23, said he had lost his balance, his speech was impaired and he was back in nappies at the age of four.

Kimberley was at York Crown Court yesterday to see Trevor Storr jailed for ten months and banned from driving for two years, after pleading guilty to dangerous driving and failing to stop after an accident.

She said today that although she felt justice had been done, nothing would ever make up for what happened to her little boy.

"Callum was a normal, happy lad who loved to play football and ride his bike," said Kimberley.

"Now he's in a wheelchair and we don't know if he will ever walk again."

The tragedy unfolded last Easter Monday when Kimberley and her husband, Keith, 28, were in their Peugeot car with Callum on their way to pick up their daughter, Rhianna, five, from a friend's house. They were driving on the A645 Rawcliffe to Drax road.

Storr, 59, of Eastrington, near Howden, was travelling in the opposite direction when he started to overtake vehicles in front of him in his Renault Scenic people carrier.

Mr MacDonald flashed his lights twice and was then forced to take evasive action with Storr's Renault only feet away.

Mr MacDonald slammed on his brakes, skidded and then bounced off the kerb into the path of an oncoming Vauxhall Vectra.

Callum took the full force of the impact and was airlifted to hospital suffering from two skull fractures.

He spent a month in intensive care and finally returned home nine weeks later.

Speaking at her home, in Fostergate, Selby, Kimberley said: "I've been the carer for my disabled husband for three years and now I'm also Callum's carer - it's devastated the whole family.

"We still have to go to York Hospital every week for Callum to have speech and occupational therapy and he's going to need a special needs teacher."

Updated: 10:11 Saturday, September 20, 2003