Child in essential situation after ‘hit and run’ in Bristol: Police attempting to find girl and man who ‘fled on foot’

Police are hunting for a man and a woman after a hit and run left a child in a critical condition.

Officers were called to the scene in Bristol today following reports a BMW car had left the road and ‘collided with a child’.

Enquiries to identify the occupants of the car are ongoing and they are believed to have ‘fled on foot’.

The pair are described as a man and a woman, both of whom are white. 

The man had short dark coloured hair and was wearing a grey puffer jacket, light-coloured trousers and white trainers. 

The woman had blonde hair and was wearing a black puffer coat, blue jeans and light-coloured shoes. 

Officers attended alongside the ambulance and fire services and remain at the scene. 

The child was rushed to hospital with injuries that are believed to be ‘life-threatening’. 

An appeal by Avon and Somerset Police read: ‘We were called at 1.51pm today (17 November) to a report that a BMW car had left the road in Long Cross, near its junction with Kings Weston Road, and collided with a child. 

‘It was also reported that the two occupants of the car had subsequently left the scene.’