The woman whose car hit a schoolgirl who needed surgery to a shattered ankle was driving a silver Jaguar it has emerged.

Yesterday, the Epsom Guardian told of Dean White’s appeal to trace the middle-aged driver who hit his 12-year-old girl on Longmead Road, Epsom, near to the roundabout at the junction of Chessington Road, at 3.25pm on Monday, February 9.

The shy Blenheim High School student, from Stoneleigh, at first appeared not to be seriously injured but it later turned out that she needed a one-and-a-half hour operation to fit pins to her ankle on Saturday because of her injuries.

Although the driver stopped briefly after hitting the schoolgirl, Mr White, 42, believes the driver should have done more to help and should have reported it to the police.

Last night, witness Matt Wall, contacted this newspaper and said: "Just to confirm, the car was either a silver Jaguar X type or a silver Jaguar S type.

"I only saw what happened briefly because the girl walked off straight away."

A Year 9 student at Blenheim, said she saw the accident happen from the other side of the road.

She said she saw Mr White’s daughter walking with one other girl - rather than a group of 12 as originally reported.

"She stepped out unaware and got hit by a silver car,"

"The driver got out straight away to see if she was OK and the girl said "yes".

"I was concerned since she tried to walk her injury off and she seemed really hurt.

"The driver was trying to tell her to stay where she was because she looked like she was in a lot of pain."

Do you have any information which could help? Call 020 8722 6346 or email hmatharu@london.newsquest.co.uk.