{"id":76546,"date":"2025-05-05T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76546\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:26:08","slug":"hit-and-run-driver-jailed-as-family-of-teen-victim-say-they-feel-pain-like-nothing-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76546\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit-and-run driver jailed as family of teen victim say they feel ‘pain like nothing else’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Loved ones say the 13-year-old girl had to learn how to talk, walk, eat drink, swallow and sleep again after the collision on Holly Lane, in Erdington\"MervynMervyn Boreland<\/p>\n

The family of a teenage girl who suffered life changing injuries following a hit-and-run collision in Birmingham say they feel ‘pain like nothing else.’<\/p>\n

Driver Mervyn Boreland was “recklessly speeding” when he struck the 13-year-old girl on Holly Lane, in Erdington<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 49-year-old, who was driving between 64mph and 67mph in a 30mph speed limit, left the scene without any concern for the pedestrian he had just hit, West Midlands Police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

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The girl was taken to hospital with serious life threatening and life changing injuries. Her family say it was a “miracle our girl made it through the night.”<\/p>\n

While she survived, her life will never be the same as she still lives with the injuries. She’s had to learn to talk, walk, eat drink, swallow and sleep again.<\/p>\n

\"HollyHolly Lane, Erdington<\/p>\n

The family of the girl said: “On Saturday 27th May 2023, Our perfect family life changed forever. On that day, the events that occurred, I would not wish on our worst enemy.<\/p>\n

“Nobody can prepare you for that knock on the door.<\/p>\n

“In what can only be described as a miracle, our girl made it through the night.<\/p>\n

“We are incredibly grateful to the emergency response teams that cared for her that day, and the medical staff that supported her recovery.<\/p>\n

“Our daughter is our inspiration. She fought and continues to fight as hard as anyone we have ever met.<\/p>\n

“Over the following months she has had to learn how to talk, walk, eat drink, swallow, sleep. But she did it.<\/p>\n

“Watching your child struggle every single day just to do the bare minimum that we take for granted is heart breaking.<\/p>\n

“The pain felt when putting these memories into words is so deep, it is a pain like nothing else.”<\/p>\n

An investigation was immediately launched to locate the car and driver.<\/p>\n

Police issued appeals for witnesses and carried out CCTV inquiries which led officers to the identification of a black Volkswagen Golf.<\/p>\n

Further inquiries found Boreland, of Icknield Street, Birmingham, to be the driver of the car.<\/p>\n

He handed himself into custody and was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.<\/p>\n

He was charged in March this year, and after pleading guilty, he was jailed for three years following a hearing at Birmingham<\/a> Crown Court on Thursday, May 1.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the case, Detective Sergeant Paul Hughes, from the Serious Collision Investigation Unit, said: “Again, this is an example of showing that speeding has devastating consequences.<\/p>\n

“Our investigations showed Boreland was travelling at over double the speed limit in a residential street, and then rather than stopping to help, he drove off.<\/p>\n

“No family should go through the devastation that this child and her family have gone through and still do to this day.<\/p>\n

“The level of injuries sustained were catastrophic but thankfully we have seen an incredible fight to survive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have read the heart breaking Victim Personal Statement provided by what I can only describe as a strong and amazing young person and I would say to her, you are an inspiration to others and the courage and fortitude you have demonstrated is a shining example to us all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loved ones say the 13-year-old girl had to learn how to talk, walk, eat drink, swallow and sleep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,22048,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-76546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-erdington","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114455457864499514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}