'He's walked away scot-free': Mum speaks out after daughter was killed on pedestrian crossing

A western Sydney mother said there has been no justice for her little girl who was killed on a pedestrian crossing two years ago.

Taylor Maddock and her five-year-old daughter Allanah were hit by a Toyota Tarago after picking up dinner from their local pizza shop at Plumpton.

"I have been waiting two years to get some closure and it didn't happen," Taylor told A Current Affair.

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Allanah was five and still settling into kindergarten.

She was holding her mother's hand when they walked out onto a zebra crossing, just two minutes from their home.

"She just looked and said, 'mum' and I had turned and it was just bang, straight away," Taylor said.

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"I remember rolling up onto the car, up onto the bonnet, onto the windscreen and then rolling back down."

Allanah's grandmother Amanda will never forget that call.

"I could hear Taylor screaming at the top of her voice, I just sat there with Allanah and just held her hand and just let her know I was there with her," Amanda said.

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Allanah died from her injuries and Taylor is still battling to recover after seven surgeries.

"I had to relearn how to walk again, my pelvis was shattered, my spine was broken and I got a brain injury," Taylor said.

But an even bigger fight was ahead for the grieving mother.

The driver, 63-year-old Abel Lopez was charged with dangerous driving occasioning death and grievous bodily harm, as well as negligent driving occasioning death and grievous bodily harm.

"The police body-worn footage shows him saying to them, 'They ran out in front of me, I didn't see them'," Taylor said.

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Lopez claimed he slowed down before the crossing and had not seen them because of the rain, the clothes they were wearing and the glare of oncoming traffic.

"We were wearing grey tracksuit pants, I was wearing a blue hoodie and my daughter was wearing a pink, orange and grey jacket," Taylor said.

A jury found Lopez not guilty of dangerous driving.

"That's fine. Okay, 12 people have said he's not dangerous. Okay, I can live with that. That's where the backup charges come, which is negligence," Taylor said.

But at the end of the trial, the judge dismissed the negligent driving charges.

"He's walked away scot-free, we were all in disbelief," Taylor said.

Lawyer Elias Tabchouri said an offence must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

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"If they can't do that, then that person is not guilty and rightly so," Elias said.

"As tragic as the consequences can be sometimes, it doesn't mean that someone has to pay a price. That's not the way the law works," Elias said.

As soon as Taylor was well enough, she knew the busy intersection needed to be made safer.

The injured mother started a petition and got 10,000 signatures in 20 days, convincing the government to remove the zebra crossing and replace it with lights.

Floodlights that weren't working at the time have now also been fixed.

"It shouldn't have taken my daughter to die to fix the road. It's too late," Taylor said.