COPS IN HUNT FOR HIT & RUN MANIAC
Onlookers say victim, 32, had row with attacker just minutes earlier
A MAN was left for dead after being deliberately knocked down by a hit-and-run driver.
Witnesses told how the victim walked back into a nearby shop in a daze moments after the incident.
POLICE are hunting a hit and run maniac after a man was mown down outside a primary school yesterday.
The victim was left for dead just a few yards from the gates of St Thomas’s Primary in Riddrie, Glasgow.
The 32-year-old man, who is believed to live locally, was struck just minutes before pupils were due out for lunch.
Shocked onlookers said the car was driven at the man as he crossed the road shortly after leaving a shop in Cumbernauld Road.
Mohamad Rafiq, who runs the nearby Usave store, said: “The guy is a regular customer and he came in and bought Irn-Bru and left. I was serving someone else when I heard the noise. Someone then told me he had been hit with a car.”
It’s believed the injured man may know the driver of the car. Both men were reportedly involved in an altercation minutes before the incident.
The car is thought to have driven off towards Dennistoun.
The dazed victim entered a shop where he was given a seat and was asked if he needed an ambulance.
A shopworker who asked not to be named said: “He staggered across the road and it looked as if it was only adrenalin that was keeping him up.
“He looked grey and was shaking.
“There was a delivery truck parked in front of the shops blocking the view across the road, so we didn’t actually see the
He left the shop saying he would sort it out himself SHOPWORKER YESTERDAY AFTER INCIDENT
car hitting him but I think it drove down the hill.
“He told me he didn’t want an ambulance or the police and left the shop saying he would sort it out himself.”
A police spokeswoman said: “Around 12.05pm police were called to a report of a disturbance on Smithy croft Road.
“A further report was received of a 32-year-old man being struck with a car on Cumbernauld Road. He was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
“Inquiries are being carried out.”