{"id":27866,"date":"2013-02-13T00:46:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T23:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/woman-toddler-hit-run-cctv-released-234643948.html"},"modified":"2013-02-13T00:46:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T23:46:43","slug":"woman-and-toddler-hit-and-run-cctv-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/woman-and-toddler-hit-and-run-cctv-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman and toddler hit-and-run CCTV released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">Police have released video of the moment a woman and toddler were sent flying in a hit-and-run in an effort to track the driver and the car.<\/p>\n<p>The CCTV footage shows the 42-year-old driving instructor and her three-year-old nephew crossing the road on December 7 in Coventry.<\/p>\n<p>As they reach the middle of King William Street a black Audi estate overtakes another car, which had stopped to turn into a junction, and strikes them.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Audi is seen to slow for a moment, but then accelerates along the road as passers-by rush to help the stricken pair, left lying in the middle of the street.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the woman and toddler were unharmed aside from a few minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police said a witness supplied a partial number plate for the Audi &#8211; EN57 &#8211; but they have been unable to trace the vehicle and believe it could be hidden in a garage.<\/p>\n<p>Officers believe the car will have sustained damage on the front.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have taken the unusual step of releasing the images &#8211; which carries a warning for viewers &#8211; in the hope that someone will recognise the car and come forward with information so that we can trace the driver,&#8221; said PC Abbi Jones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This could have been so much worse. At the time of the collision, the driver would not have known that the woman and child were uninjured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have released video of the moment a woman and toddler were sent flying in a hit-and-run in an effort to track the driver and the car.<br \/>\nThe CCTV footage shows the 42-year-old driving instructor and her three-year-old nephew crossing the road on D&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}