Claire Smith (centre) with family at the Arctic Monkeys concert

A FAMILY are appealing for witnesses after a woman was left in agony when she was hit by a luxury car as she made her way home from an Arctic Monkeys concert.

Claire Smith was on the way back from the band’s Emirates Stadium gig when she was hit on Holloway Road at around 11pm, near Islington Central Library.

Her husband and two teenage sons, as well as her brother, his wife and their daughter, watched in horror as the former nurse tried to jump out of the way of the car but was knocked to the floor.

Later, she was warned in hospital that she could have lost her leg without medical help.

The car involved was a black Porsche – a 911 model which can cost up to £122,000. Police have spoken to the driver and made no arrests, and said enquiries were continuing.

Ms Smith said her family wanted anybody there to help establish the sequence of events for investigators. Holloway Road was thronging with music fans coming away from the concert with potentially hundreds of possible witnesses. Cars had been forced to slow down due to the crowds.

Her husband Tom Smith, an intensive care consultant, said: “A few bystanders had stopped and Claire said some of them had said they were medical students so they were sort of helping her. She was in the road at this stage. And with traffic still trying to drive past us, so we moved her to the side, and phoned 999.”

The family believe Ms Smith was struck by the wing mirror and had her foot driven over, which swelled up immediately.

Ms Smith’s injured leg in bandages

An ambulance took her to the Whittington Hospital. Doctors there carried out checks and sent her home for rest. She slept on the sofa to keep her foot elevated but by the morning told her husband the leg “didn’t feel right”. She was rushed to Whipps Cross Hospital in east London, where they were warned she needed immediate surgery to relieve the pressure – or could lose her lower left leg.

“By the time they saw us in A&E she’d actually started to lose the pulses in that leg from the knee down,” Mr Smith added. “So they were really quite worried and she had to go through emergency surgery to just cut that leg open from the knee downwards on both sides, just to release all the pressure from the swelling from the soft tissue injury. They were like, ‘You could maybe lose this leg from the knee down’.”

Ms Smith was in surgery yesterday (Thursday) – her third operation since the incident – after doctors revealed she has fractures in her foot and serious soft tissue damage.

“She will have some stonking scars,” but is recovering, her husband said, although he warned that without a quick recovery she will lose her business as a dog walker, which she only set up last October after working for 28 years as a nurse.

Mr Smith said: “If anyone’s willing to come forward as an eyewitness, or better still has any video footage or anything like that that they might have captured, that would be really helpful.” They hope to seek justice, either through criminal or civil courts, he said.

A police spokesman said: “Police were called at approximately 23.10 hours on Friday, 16 June to reports of a road traffic collision involving a car and a pedestrian in Holloway Road, N7. Officers attended and spoke to the driver involved; a breath test was not administered and he was not arrested. A female pedestrian was taken to hospital for treatment to injuries. Her condition is not life threatening. Enquiries into the circumstances remain ongoing.”

Anyone with information about the incident can call police on 101 or tweet @MetCC and quote CAD9674/16Jun.