{"id":12422,"date":"2026-04-12T17:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/12422\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T17:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:52:25","slug":"woman-arrested-after-hit-and-run-in-south-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/12422\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested after hit-and-run in South Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"

She was stopped by police a few streets away\"Police<\/p>\n

Police at the scene of a fail-to-stop RTC involving a car and a pedestrian on Fulford Road in Hartcliffe, Saturday, April 11, 2026(Image: Bristol Post submitted)<\/p>\n

A woman has been arrested after a hit-and-run crash in South Bristol.<\/p>\n

Police and paramedics were called to reports that a pedestrian had been hit by a car being driven down Fulford Road in Hartcliffe<\/a> on Saturday (April 11), but the driver left the scene before police arrived.<\/p>\n

The police said the pedestrian was taken to hospital, but thankfully her injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n

The road was closed for several hours on Saturday afternoon as police investigated the circumstances around the incident.<\/p>\n

Later, a car matching the description of the one involved in the incident was stopped a few streets away, on Whitland Road in Hartcliffe, and a woman driving it was arrested.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset police said: \u201cEmergency services were called to a collision between a car and pedestrian at about 12.20pm on Saturday 11 April in Fulford Road in Bristol.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pedestrian was taken to hospital. Her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. The car, described as a blue Mini Cooper, was not at the scene when officers arrived,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cA vehicle matching the description was stopped by officers in Whitland Road about an hour after the collision and a 37-year-old woman was arrested. She has been released on conditional bail while our enquiries continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWitnesses, or anyone with relevant dashcam footage, is asked to contact us on 101 and quote reference number 5226098855,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She was stopped by police a few streets away Police at the scene of a fail-to-stop RTC involving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1218,5535,5861,683,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-12422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-hartcliffe","10":"tag-south-bristol","11":"tag-traffic-travel","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116393013576607466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}