A speeding BMW driver accused of mowing down Kingston University student Hina Shamim claimed the 21-year-old "just stepped out" in the crash's aftermath, a court has heard.

Farid Reza was "shocked" and "showed great concern" following the crash in which the 21-year-old was killed, an eyewitness told jurors during a trial at the Old Baily today.

He was allegedly going at 69mph – more than twice the 30mph limit - and was racing another BMW motorist when he crashed into the student outside Kingston University in Penryhn Road on March 31, 2015, jurors heard.

From yesterday: Kingston University student Hina Shamim killed as 'two men racing' in Penrhyn Road 'showed off to each other', trial hears

Five children were travelling in the car, meaning at least one was not wearing a seatbelt.

Mr Reza, 36, and fellow motorist William Spicer, 28, are accused of causing death by dangerous driving and injuring a young child passenger.

Resident Paula Cronin heard a huge crash and rushed out of her home in Penrhyn Road to see what had happened, only to be greeted by eerie silence and stillness, the court heard.

Giving evidence, she said: "When I first came out of the house, everything was frozen and still and completely silent and I saw a man take a child from the back of the car.

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Hina Shamim was killed almost two years ago

"At that point I had not seen anything else so it was only when the man started asking me about the girl who had been hit I realised somebody else had been involved in the accident.

"He thrust the child into my arms and rushed off in the direction of the white car. His (the child's) head was pouring with blood. I managed to stem the bleeding."

Mr Reza held his head in his hands in the dock while witnesses described the crash to the court.

Ms Cronin told jurors that Reza had said to her: "How is the girl, I did not mean to hit her, she just stepped out ... I tried to avoid her and I hit the bus."

She added: "He repeated it quite a few times. All the time he showed great concern for this person he said that he had hit.

"He got very, very distressed about the girl he said he had hit. He was standing up, sitting down, taking his jacket off, putting it on and at one point he went unconscious and there was a fireman next to me and I said 'we have to put him in the recovery position'.

"Then he sat bolt upright and asked how the girl was. He was at that point given an oxygen mask and I tried to encourage him to breathe into the mask."

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Tributes left near Penrhyn Road following the crash

In her opening statement yesterday, porsecuting lawyer Deanna Heer argued Mr Reza and Mr Spicer were "showing off" to each other and racing in the moments before Miss Shamim was killed.

She was in her final year at Kingston University and on her way from her home opposite the campus to study in the library when she was killed.

Mr Reza, of Surbiton Road, and Mr Spicer, of Harrow, in north-west London, both deny the charges.

The trial continues.