Egypt .. Run over a doctor in the street because of a mirror!

Photo courtesy of Al-Watan.

A case known in the media as "the Eastern run-over accident" spread widely among the pages of social networking sites in Egypt, after an Egyptian doctor accused a person of running over her with his car and attempting to kill him, according to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk.

The newspaper added that Dr. Shaima Salim, a diagnostic radiologist at Al-Qanayat Central Hospital in Sharkia Governorate, submitted a report to the director of the governorate security accusing a person of trying to run over her with his car because she accidentally touched his car mirror.

The doctor said during the investigations that the run-over accident she was subjected to because she hit a car mirror occurred at the beginning of this month, as she accidentally hit the accused’s car when it was walking on the Obour Hospital Street in Zagazig city, which caused the position of the mirror to vibrate, and that she reset it, and apologized to the driver of the car. And before apologizing.

She continued that she walked on the road, but was surprised by the driver running over her within moments, stressing that the passers-by and those who witnessed the incident were satisfied that she was fine, there was no need to complain, and that she did not receive any help from anyone.

The injured doctor confirmed that she did not feel her injury immediately after the accident, but upon her return to the house she fainted, and after she woke up, she discovered that she had fractures in the metatarsals, in addition to the presence of bruises and scattered wounds on the body, adding that there is a medical report that proves this.

For its part, the Egyptian newspaper "Al-Watan" reported that Dr. Shaima Selim said during a press interview with the newspaper that after editing a report on the incident, she obtained a video clip that was documented by one of the surveillance cameras at the scene of the accident.

She explained that some of the relatives of the employee who ran over her offered her reconciliation and waiver of the record, and one of them offered her a sum of money in exchange for the waiver, but she refused.

The doctor also confirmed, as Al-Watan reported, that she insists on taking her right by law, so that such actions are not repeated against other people, and that no one drives his car recklessly and in a way that harms others, noting that the accused justified his fast driving that he was in a diabetic coma. To escape his crime, however, it does not make sense because if he was in a diabetic coma he would not be able to drive the car.

The Public Prosecution decided to detain the employee accused of running over the doctor, the victim of the Sharkia run-down accident, for 4 days, pending investigation.