Driver ignores mortally injured woman by roadside... and later discovers she’s his mother

A driver who ignored an injured elderly woman by the roadside later found out that the victim was his own mother, the Anhui Business Daily reported.

The man from Nanling county in Wuhu city was on his way to visit his mother early one morning last week when he spotted the badly hurt old woman next to the road. “My car does not have a dashboard recorder, so I didn’t stop,” he was quoted as saying.

When he arrived at his mother’s house, neighbours told him she had left early to visit him. An ominous feeling came over him, and he immediately drove back to the place where the woman was lying.

To his horror he discovered the woman covered in blood was his mother. He called police and an ambulance but she died on the way to hospital.

Police later found a driver who confessed to hitting the woman and fleeing the scene.

Many drivers and passers-by on the mainland are cautious about assisting injured people, especially the elderly who fall over or involved in traffic accidents.

There have been numerous incidents of Good Samaritans themselves being sued for damages by the same people they tired to help.