A police investigation is underway after a 15-year-old girl suffered an ankle injury which required hospital treatment in a hit-and-run collision which took place on Craigs Road at its junction with Craigmount Grove in Edinburgh at around 8.10am on Monday.
The teenage pedestrian was struck by a black hatchback car, believed to be a Volkswagen Golf, and the driver failed to stop.
The driver is described as a white man in his late 30s to mid-40s, of large build with facial hair, greying hair at the sides of his head and bald on top. He was wearing a blue jacket and blue jeans.
Constable Ryan Murphy from Edinburgh’s Road Policing Unit said: “The young woman has sutained a very painful injury to her ankle as a result of this collision, yet the driver involved has failed to stop.”
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John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
