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image captionLouis Thorold pictured with his mother Rachael hours before the crash
The mother of a five-month-old boy killed when a van mounted the pavement and hit his pram said she felt emptiness when she awoke from a coma.
Rachael Thorold, 36, was walking with her son Louis by the A10 in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, on 22 January when they were hit.
Louis died at the scene and his mother was left with serious injuries.
Speaking via phone from hospital, Mrs Thorold said she had come a long way but was also very, very sad .
Mrs Thorold said she remembered her husband Chris being there when she woke from her coma: There was a feeling of emptiness that just carried on. I knew it was coming from somewhere.
A village fell silent today for the funeral of a five-month-old baby boy killed when a van left the A10 at Waterbeach and ploughed into his pram.
Louis Thorold died at the scene and his mother, Rachel, 36, who remains in hospital, was seriously injured.
The cortege drove around the village green and then through Horningsea and into Cambridge.
Rachael Thorold, 36, was pushing her five-month-old son Louis in his pram along a pavement beside the A10 in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire when they were hit by a van. This photo of Ms Thorold holding her smiling son was taken just hours before the collision last month
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A mother whose baby died when a van mounted the pavement and crashed into his pram said the child was five years in the making in a heartfelt post.
Rachael Thorold, 36, was pushing her son Louis in his pram along a pavement beside the A10 in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, last Friday when a Mazda 2 collided with a Renault Master van, which then hit Ms Thorold and her son s pram.
Just weeks ago Mrs Thorold, a council local plan manager, shared a picture of her son as a newborn. Alongside the Instagram post she wrote: Five years in the making .
Ms Thorold remains in a critical but stable condition at Addenbrooke s Hospital in Cambridge, police said today.