New Taipei City police yesterday said they questioned a driver who drove off after hitting a baby stroller on a crosswalk in the city’s Sindian District (新店).
In a video posted on Sunday on Threads, a Toyota sedan can be seen driving through a crosswalk and hitting the front of a stroller and then continuing on its way.
The accident occurred at about 3pm on Sunday, when a woman was pushing her baby in a stroller across a crosswalk on Sinwu Road Sec 1 at an intersection to Lane 11, police said.
Photo courtesy of local authorities via CNA
After hitting the front of the stroller, the driver sped away from the scene without exiting their vehicle to check what they had hit, they said.
The woman, surnamed Lin (林), and the baby were not seriously injured, police said, adding that Lin, 62, began feeling pain in her shoulder a few hours after the accident.
Lin yesterday reported the accident to the police and went to a doctor to have her injury examined, police said.
Police said that after running the vehicle’s license plate, they summoned the driver for questioning, on suspicion of leaving the scene of an accident.
Failing to yield to pedestrians at a crosswalk is punishable by a fine of NT$1,200 to NT$6,000, they said.
Drivers who injure or kill a pedestrian on a crosswalk could be fined between NT$7,200 to NT$36,000, and have their license suspended for a year in the case of injury or revoked if the accident resulted in death, police added.
Under the Criminal Code, fleeing the scene of an accident that resulted in an injury is punishable by six months to five years in prison, they said.
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