Van driver hunt intensifies after Newbury Park hit and run

30 July 2010

A VAN driver involved in a hit and run which has left a seven-year-old boy fighting for his life allegedly asked the child's uncle if the boy was OK before sprinting back to his vehicle.

Little Ehsan Mahmood is in Great Ormond Street Hospital after being struck in Leyswood Drive, Newbury Park, at 5.15pm on Wednesday.

Investigators are appealing for help in tracking down the driver, who is described as white, with blond spiky hair.

He drove for about 20 yards with little Ehsan under his van before he was freed.

The man stopped and walked to where the boy was lying motionless, before running back to his van and driving off.

Ehsan and his parents, who live in Portsmouth, had been visiting family when the accident happened.

He was in a car about to be driven to Seven Kings Park with his two sisters when he stepped out of the car and walked into the road to get back to his relatives' house, his cousin Jahangir Hussain told the Recorder.

The 30-year-old said: "He has severe bleeding in his brain so they're still working out what the situation is with regard to the damage that's been done.

"We're still in limbo.

"We just want the person who was driving to come forward to police.