Matildas star Sam Kerr‘s elderly grandmother is tragically fighting for life after she was struck by a ute just metres from her Perth home.
Coral Kerr, 89, stepped off a bus in the southwest suburb of Palmyra about 11am local time when a ute driver allegedly mounted the kerb in an attempt to overtake the bus and hit her.
At the time, Sam Kerr and her father Roger were at picturesque winery Krinklewood Estate in the NSW Hunter Valley attending the wedding of her Matildas teammate Emily Van Egmond to partner Kat Thompson.
Its understood Sam and her father Roger learned of the tragedy while at the reception with Roger hurriedly organising a flight back to Perth to be at his mother’s hospital bed.
Pictures from the Palmyra scene show the ute with extensive damage to its bonnet after the vehicle hit a power pole before it hit Ms Kerr.
Coral’s neighbours and bus passengers who witnessed the crash rushed to her side to help her as she lay on the grassy area next to the footpath.
‘She really wasn’t responding too much, she was very sweaty and clammy… I think she was in shock obviously,’ neighbour Mary Ivey told 9News.
Witnesses alleged there were cars lined up behind the bus and the ute driver had tried to overtake it by and driving on the footpath.
Sam Kerr with her beloved grandmother Coral Kerr who is in a critical condition in hospital after she was struck by a car near her Perth home
Sam had been at the wedding of a Matildas teammate with her father, Roger, when she learned of the crash back in Perth
The ute allegedly drove on the footpath in an attempt to overtake the bus where it hit a power pole before it hit Ms Kerr
Chelsea striker Kerr, 31, and her partner West Ham midfielder Kristie Mewis, 33, who hails from the US, had both been spending time with Kerr’s family over the Christmas period .
The pair announced in November that they were expecting a baby and had flown back to Australia for Christmas.
The Chelsea star is currently recovering from an ACL injury that could keep her out of action until March 2025.
She had been spotted wearing a black compression sleeve on her right leg to aid the injury, but was later seen in Perth not wearing the support.
Emily Van Egmond’s team-mates were in attendance with Kerr (second from left) who posed for snaps alongside her partner Kristie Mewis (left). Arsenal star Katie McCabe (second from right) and Caitlin Foord (right) joined the couple for a picture
It’s understood Sam and her father learned of crash while attending the wedding reception
