Hit and run after accident (Bochum): Opel driver seriously injured | Area

Bochum – After a terrible accident in Bochum, a young woman (25) continues to fight for her life. Police are now looking for the driver who continued to speed after the accident without helping!

There is even now a photo of the car that caused the accident: a dark blue Opel Astra G (made around 2000) caught on a shop’s surveillance camera. Police used the image to look for clues about the driver. According to investigators, the passenger side exterior mirror was damaged, as was the car’s front apron.

The woman from Bochum was found bleeding on the sidewalk of Alleestrasse (near house number 143) on Friday (7 November) at 13.15. Jens Artschwager, spokesman POLICE Bochum: “Apparently he was hit by a car passing as a pedestrian. He became unconscious and was immediately taken to hospital by the ambulance crew.”

The young woman lost her sneakers in the impact

Photo: Bochum Police

Pedestrians’ lives are still in danger

In Intensive care unit The doctor decided that the patient’s life was in danger. “Your condition is still critical,” Artschwager said a few days later. Although the accident has been widely recorded and all witnesses and citizens have been questioned, his colleagues’ efforts to identify the driver of the accident have so far failed.

Paramedics and emergency doctors rushed to help the young woman

Police and emergency doctors at the accident scene

Photo: Bochum Police

Police immediately looked for eye witnesses to the accident

Investigators also continue to look for eyewitnesses. “We’ve got a lot of information, but what’s missing is the people who saw the accident first hand,” Artschwager said. Police are also asking drivers who have dashcams and were driving in the area to check their footage.

The Astra racer still has a chance to face himself. If questioned, he is threatened with having his license revoked driver’s license prison sentence of several years.

The traffic commissioner requests a report by telephone (02 34) 9 09 44 41 (crime station). However, every other police station also accepts tips.