Cyclist Who Hit Toddler & Dragged Her Along Pavement Claims Life Has Been Ruined

This shocking footage has emerged after a little girl was swept up by a passing cyclist outside her home in Britain. The cyclist then hurled abuse at the family and rode away.

Three-year-old Lucie was crossing the footpath, following her mum to go along on the school run when she was caught up in the passing cyclist's bike and dragged several metres.

Andrew Holland, 23, who was riding the bike claims that his life has been ruined by the incident that could have killed the little girl.

He said that he had been both verbally and physically abused since the release of the CCTV footage that showed him hitting the little girl.

Mum Lauren Howarth, 26, said at the time: “One minute she was behind me and the next she was further along the street, sprawled across the pavement. I thought she was dead. There was blood coming from everywhere. She was hysterical, screaming at the top of her lungs.”

“As soon as he got up he started swearing at us, as if it was Lucie’s fault that he had hit her. The next thing we knew he’d gone.”

“It would have been nice for him to put a note through the door to check how she is. For all he knew, she could be dead,” she said.

Mr Holland’s family said he did not flee the scene, but was driven away by his 64-year-old dad George who happened to be driving by down the street.

“His life has been destroyed,” he said about his son.

Mr Holland, a computer games design graduate, disputed the claims of a hit-and-run.

He told Mail Online he had apologised to Ms Howarth and voluntarily went to a police station the day after the incident. He said the shortened version of the video released to the public did not tell the whole story.

“Apparently it was a ‘hit-and-run’, but it wasn’t,” he said.

He also claims he didn't realise it was illegal to ride on the footpath.