Dubai Police arrested a Gulf driver, who caused a woman to run over and fled the scene, taking advantage of the lack of monitoring by the surveillance cameras at the accident site for the vehicle number, where the work team was able to catch the driver within 12 hours of the accident.
In details, the Director of the General Department of Investigations and Criminal Investigations in Dubai Police, Brigadier Jamal Salem Al-Jallaf, said that a report was submitted to the Command and Control Center, stating that an accident occurred in the second Jumeirah area, and that the jurisdiction and relevant authorities had moved, indicating that the victim is an Asian woman in the fifth decade of She was crossing the street from a place not designated for pedestrian crossing, and was run over, her head was hit by the pavement, and she died instantly, and the driver escaped from the accident site, and no material traces were found on the site that could facilitate the search and investigation of the car except for a piece of a modern car .
He added that the victim was transferred to Rashid Hospital, where it was found that she was dead as a result of a severe injury, pointing out that they had formed a work team to follow up on the report, and to prepare a work mechanism and a search and investigation plan to collect the necessary information and quickly find the cause and the vehicle causing, and combing the area was found A visual recording in one of the residential compounds at the site of the accident itself. By watching the video, the woman crossed from the left to the right the place of the ground bed to reduce speed, and the vehicle causing the crossing was seen at a high speed inside the residential area, and the driver did not reduce the speed, which caused the woman to run over. The driver.
Al-Jallaf continued that, by continuing research and investigation, the identity of the person responsible for the accident, who was a young Gulf man, was reached and arrested at his home. He also removed the vehicle from the house and apparently examined it, and it witnessed severe damage from the right side and the emergence of the bumper of the car from his place on the left side of the strike force, and on him The vehicle was transported to the General Department of Criminal Evidence and Criminology for inspection and necessary action.
He stressed that the circumstances of the accident were very difficult, due to the lack of data through which the owner of the suspected vehicle could be reached except for a piece of the car, in addition to the lack of surveillance cameras picking up the car number and the absence of an eyewitness.
Al-Jallaf called on the members of the public to exercise caution and caution, not to stand except in the authorized places, to inform immediately in the event of any accident, and not to flee in anticipation of legal accountability.