Police are renewing an appeal for information one year after 56-year-old Peter Topping died in a fatal incident in Goldthorpe.
At around 8.25pm on Thursday, 29 December 2011, it is believed that Mr Topping was lying in the carriageway on Co-operative Street, Goldthorpe, when an unknown vehicle drove over him causing fatal injuries.
The driver of the vehicle failed to stop at the scene, and it is reported that the vehicle continued along Co-operative Street, turning left onto Doncaster Road. Despite extensive enquiries in the area and assistance from the local community, neither the driver nor the vehicle has been traced.
Police are interested in speaking to the occupants of three vehicles that are believed to have been in the area at the time and may have witnessed the incident: a dark coloured Mercedes ‘C’ class, a dark coloured Land Rover Freelander, and a silver coloured Audi A3.
Police are appealing for witnesses after two children were injured during a collision in Sheffield.
At 5pm on Saturday, a red vehicle turned into Hinde Street from Robey Street, when it's thought the vehicle began to reverse and collided with two children who were crossing the road behind the vehicle.
It is believed the vehicle failed to stop and left the scene, travelling back onto Robey Street.
The children, a seven-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, were taken to Sheffield Children’s Hospital. The boy has a suspected broken ankle and the girl a broken right ankle, chipped tooth and minor grazes.
Anyone with information should contact South Yorkshire Police on 101.
Police watchdog investigates Bradford hit and run death
The police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, is independently investigating the involvement police had with a car before and after a crash which killed a 12-year-old boy.
Bilal Khizar died after being struck by a car on Rooley Lane on Saturday 6 October.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. The car also collided with other vehicles.
The IPCC wants to speak to anyone who saw a Seat Ibiza that had been seen by police and pulled-over in a lay-by.
A maroon Seat, registration number EF59 ULN, was first seen by police at 6.45pm at the junction of Fenby Avenue and Sticker Lane in Bradford. Police followed it up Sticker Lane then into Rooley Lane. The car and police travelled along Rooley Lane and on to the M606 until the Chain Bar roundabout.
It is important that the events that led up to and followed this tragic incident are investigated fully and that we understand the exact nature of the contact between the police and this car. That is why the IPCC needs anyone who saw the Seat Ibiza to contact us.
The funeral of a 12-year-old boy, who was killed in a suspected hit and run accident at the weekend, has taken place in Bradford this morning and hundreds of locals turned out to say a final goodbye as Sarah Clark reports.
The funeral ceremony of Bilal Khizar, the Bradford Academy pupil tragically killed on Saturday, 6 October 2012 in Bradford, will be held today at Parkside Community Centre.
The family will be welcoming both Bilal's closest classmates from Bradford Academy, including his home team and core class pupils, as well as hundreds of friends and family from the community around the Bowling Park area of Bradford.
The ceremony at the community centre will celebrate Bilal and his all-too-short life before the family takes the body to the local mosque for prayers prior to burial.
Two people appeared in court today following the death of a 12-year-old boy who was killed in a suspected hit-and-run in Bradford.
Bilal Raffey Khizar was knocked down by a car which had been followed by police in the city on Saturday. Zain Khan appeared before magistrates charged with causing death by dangerous driving, while Sara Hughes is charged with perverting the course of justice.
The pair, both aged 21 and from Halifax, were remanded in custody until next week, when they will appear at Crown Court.
School friends of a 12-year-old boy killed in a hit and run incident in Bradford have held special assemblies to remember Bilal Khizar described as a unique and popular boy. The Bradford Academy pupil died on a pedestrian crossing after he was hit by a car police had stopped in a lay-by.
