An Illawarra visitor had a fibia fractured in her right leg when she was knocked over by a 10-year-old cyclist on the footpath outside the Ex-Servicemen's Club on Tuesday night.
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Irene Cox, of Oak Flats, had just left the car in which she was a passenger and stepped onto the footpath on her way to dinner at the club when the cyclist collected her at high speed.
She and the boy, who was not wearing a helmet, were spreadeagled and she "ringbarked both shins" and lost a shoe in the accident.
She thought she was OK and went on to dinner, but had trouble walking out of the club and was treated by a passing ambulance and taken to hospital for X-rays and to get a pair of crutches.
She said the boy, who said he was on a shopping errand, at least didn't flee the scene and was very apologetic.
However she wished children and others using wheeled vehicles on footpaths would slow down and show consideration for others on the footpath.
Ms Cox was on the last night of a five-night tour to Griffith and return with a convoy of seven cars from the Illawarra Vintage Car Club.
Seven vintage cars were in the convoy, including a canary yellow 1961 EK Holden originally owned and restored by rock singer and TV personality Angry Anderson.