This father launched a Facebook campaign to find the driver responsible for his baby son’s hit and run but when he found out who did it he was left in shock.
When Jamie Ellison returned from dropping his two daughters at school in Gloucestershire in the UK, he was confronted with the unthinkable.
Paramedics, police, his road blocked off.
A toddler was being rushed to hospital after being involved in a hit and run — it was his 15-month-old son.
As police put out an appeal for anyone with information to step forward, a desperate Jamie made his own plea on Facebook as he waited with his partner Joanne in the hospital.
“I beg anyone who was on Hester’s Way Road between 8:30 and 8:40….doing school runs or catching a bus etc to please call the police and help find who did this to my little man x thank you x,” he wrote.
All day police searched, conducted door knocks and made appeals.
The family anxiously awaited test results on 15-month-old Alexander when at 4pm police came to them with some news.
They had established who had run over the toddler leaving him seriously injured by the roadside before driving off after viewing CCTV. The car that hit 15-month old Alexander was driven by Jamie himself.