A MUM has spoken out of her horror at finding a tiny kitten on the A127 which she believes was thrown out of a car.

Laura Smith, 29, was driving down the A127 towards her home in Southwold Crescent, Benfleet, when she suddenly saw something roll towards her car as she reached the Canvey/Wickford slip road.

Luckily, Miss Smith, who was travelling with her daughters Lola, five, and Sophia, slammed on her brakes and managed to safely stop her car.

Miss Smith said: “One of my daughters had been sick in the car on the way home so the journey was already a bit of a performance.

“I was just about to turn off when I saw this tiny fluffy thing rolling towards the car.

“I swerved to miss it and looked in my mirror and saw it scrambling towards the side.

“I did an emergency stop, got out the car and had to run really fast but managed to find him in the grass verge.

The little kitten was terrified, shaking all over and had oil all over his paws and nose following the incident on September 25.

“I took him home and just burst into tears it was so upsetting,” added Miss Smith.

Emergency vets Medivet checked the kitten over and, although he was found to be only five weeks old, once it was established he had escaped his ordeal without any injuries, allowed the self-confessed “crazy cat lady” to take him home with her.

The family, who already have two cats have now named the kitten Teeko, and Miss Smith has praised the vet surgery for its help.

She said: “The vets were fantastic, they gave us a lot of help and stuff to take home for him.”

But she added: “I didn’t see a hand throw him out the car but I’m convinced he was thrown as he was rolling towards my car.

“Even if he fell out he should have been in a carrier really and the car didn’t stop.

“As far as I’m concerned someone treated him really badly, I can’t believe how awful it was. I’m pretty convinced he came from that car as if he hadn’t I don’t know where he would have come from; there are no houses around there.

“But he’s got a home with us now. My friends were saying how lucky it was as I’m a pretty crazy cat lady and we kind of fell in to each others lives.”