YOUNG Bradley Campbell is getting ready to go back to school - just two weeks after he cheated death in a nightmare accident outside his home.

Six-year-old Bradley, who suffered a fractured skull when he was struck by a car, has staged a "miracle" recovery and is looking forward to seeing his friends.

The only lasting effect of the accident will be a few weeks of missed karate lessons - and a new story to tell when he goes back to school on Wednesday.

Bradley"s mum Margaret said: 'Looking at him now you would you would not know that anything had happened to him.

'He"s limping a bit and has a sore left leg from where the car hit him, but there"s no permanent damage. He"s getting bored now and just wants to see all his friends at school.' Bradley had just ran outside to play with his friends, but as he stepped off the pavement he was in collison with a car outside his home in Aberfoyle Road, Greenock.

He was thrown into the air and landed on a concrete pavement.

Margaret said: 'I was upstairs and I heard a thud and my husband Derrick shouting "It"s Bradley".' 'He had frozen when the car left the road and it hit him full-on. When we got to him he was crying and said that he had a very sore tummy.' Bradley suffered severe bruising down one side and it was feared he had internal injuries.

Medics rushed him to Yorkhill Sick Children"s Hospital in Glasgow within hours of the accident.

'Margaret added: 'It was awful going up to Glasgow in the ambulance and terrible things were racing through my mind.

'I wouldn"t wish that feeling on my worst enemy.' Scans showed that the youngster, who goes to Oakfield primary, had no internal injuries to his body, only cuts and bruises.

His skull had a slight fracture which will heal quickly because of his young age.

And he"s had a great incentive to get better quickly - he gets to play with all the new toys he"s been sent by friends and relatives who have been wishing him a speedy recovery.

Margaret said: 'We"ve been overwhelmed with all the cards and gifts we"ve been sent.

'The support and love we"ve been sent from all our friends and family has been brilliant.

'It"s at times like this that you realise how much they mean to you'.