A 2-year-old Saltash baby girl suffered a broken ankle due to a hit and run incident in a supermarket parking lot, and the perpetrator behind the wheels is still left unidentified.
Ellie Green was holding hands with her dad and getting ready to cross a pedestrian lane after leaving Morrisons store in Outland Road, when she was bumped by a giant 4x4 type automobile last Sunday, Oct. 23. Now, the toddler has a cast on her left leg and must be worn till her broken ankle heals.
The 2-year-old toddler went shopping together with her daddy and big sister in Morrisons store in Outland Road. After shopping, they decided to go back to their car. When they were about to cross a pedestrian lane in a car park, a huge 4x4 car whooshed in front of them and hit baby Ellie.
According to the dad of the victim, who was holding the hand of her two daughters at the time of the incident, he recalled a car was coming up that seemed to be stopping, but it did not. The father described the car as a champagne-colored Nissan Qashqai with two women inside the car. The incident occurred around 12:45 p.m. last Sunday.
"Ellie must have been a step in front of me, because the side of car hit her. I didn't see it, just heard the thud - and then she was down on the floor screaming," Plymouth Herald quoted Gareth Green as saying. He added that he did not think that the two women in the car knew they hit his 2-year-old daughter and the car did not speed up afterward and so his gut feeling was they don't drive off maliciously.
Ellie suffered a broken ankle after the incident. Today she is wearing a cast on her left leg which she will have to wear for four to six weeks while her broken ankle heals, the Mirror has learned. The father of Ellie was also quoted in the Mirror as saying his daughter is a brave little girl and was back to her normal self on Sunday night.
Meanwhile, the father was not angry about the incident and just reported the accident to the authorities. He also hopes that the lady driver of the car that hit his daughter will surrender to the police.
