<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sam Kerr's grandmother is tonight in a critical condition having been struck by a car in </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/perth" rel="" target="" title="Perth"><span>Perth</span></a><span>'s south-east.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Coral Kerr was getting off a bus in Palmyra just before 11am today when a driver allegedly mounted the curb while trying to overtake the bus and hit the 89-year-old.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Neighbours, including Mary Ivey, rushed to Kerr's side to help her and alerted her family.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/videos/national/wa-woman-left-bloodied-and-bruised-in-shocking-attack/cm56lcce200060hpgovh8m7dj"><strong><span>WA woman left bloodied and bruised in shocking attack</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"She really wasn't responding too much, she was very sweaty and clammy and then she started," Ivey told 9News.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I think she was in shock obviously."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Witnesses say the driver tried to overtake the bus and mounted the footpath.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/sam-kerr-grandmother-coral-kerr-critical-condition-hit-by-car-getting-off-bus-palmyra-perth/2b2be310-ca2b-4547-9431-7ffe16712f84" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"A bus pulled up at the bus stop and there was a line of traffic, of cars, but this chap must have got very impatient and he decided he'd pull out and go down on the footpath," neighbour Florence Mudge told 9News.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 63-year-old man behind the wheel struck a power pole before hitting Kerr just metres from her Marmion Street home.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"People just don't think anymore, they just want to get where they wanna get," neighbour Noeline Mudge said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/videos/national/adelaide-new-years-eve-celebration-to-go-ahead-despite-e-coli-outbreak/cm56gomzd000b0iqm6w1ny44l"><strong><span>Adelaide New Year's Eve celebration to go ahead despite E. coli outbreak</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Locals say the area is a hot spot for crashes.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This accident is the worst one we've ever seen here," Gilbert Anderson told 9News.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Kaye Anderson agreeing.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Continually there's a lot of crashes but there's been four within the last two months," she told 9News.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Family and friends are now holding out hope Kerr will make a recovery as she is treated in Royal Perth Hospital.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We just pray that Coral's got the strength to pull through this," Ivey said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sam Kerr's father, Roger Kerr, is flying home to WA from the east coast to be with his mother.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" title="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f"><em><strong><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></strong></em></a><em><strong><span>:</span></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><span>Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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