DOCTORS say it is a miracle a teenage boy is alive after he was hit by car.

Mitchell Blowers, 15, was walking in Brinkley Grove Road, Colchester, when a Hyundai Getz car mounted the pavement and hit him from behind.

Amazingly, he walked out of hospital the next daywith nothing more than a sticking plaster on his hand.

Doctors say he was fortunate the car absorbed most of the impact and as he did not see the car coming, his body was relaxed.

His mum says he was wearing two hoodies and they probably cushioned the blow.

Mitchell said: “I’d just said goodbye to my friends and I was walking along. I remember getting my phone out and thinking about the rain and then it happened.

“I was about to ring my mum and the car came right up behind me out of nowhere.

“I remember hitting the bonnet and flipping over and landing half on the road and half on the pavement. I was pretty sore.

“I think the car stopped about 100 yards up the road.”

Luckily, an ambulance was passing as the drama unfolded.

David Goulding, Mitchell’s stepdad, said: “The paramedic told us he was expecting it to be fatal.

“He just said he was shocked and taken aback when he got to Mitchell and he was able to communicate.”

Specialists feared his spine, legs, hips and arms were damaged.

He had a CT scan and several X-rays before doctors said they believed he had survived almost unscathed.

Mr Goulding said: “We still can’t believe it. He walked out of Colchester General Hospital with a plaster in his hand where the cannula was inserted.

It is totally unbelievable.”

As soon as Mitchell was hit by the car, his stepbrother Harrison, 14, called Mitchell’s mum, Beetle Goulding, 38.

Mrs Goulding said: “It was the worst phone call of my life.

I did not knowwhat to expect.

“I can’t believe he didn’t break anything. He was wearing two hoodies, so I think that might have cushioned the blow a little bit.

“It is a miracle. The doctors kept saying they couldn’t believe he had survived.”

Mrs Goulding said doctors told her Mitchell survived relatively unscathed because the main point of impact was the centre of the car, lifting him on to the windscreen, which absorbed the impact.

The incident happened on Thursday at 3pm.

An Essex Police spokesman said investigations into the crash are continuing.