Driver searched how to get away with crime online after Coseley death crash
A woman searched on Google how to get away with a hit-and-run accident after failing to stop at the scene of a crash in Coseley in which a 69-year-old pedestrian died.
Nishaben Mistry has been sentenced for failing to stop. She was driving a BMW 1 series on Havacre Lane, Coseley, on the evening of Thursday, 15 December last year when she was involved in the collision but drove off.
Investigations showed she later walked back to the location and saw police cars, but she thought it was not to do with her having hit what she believed was a bush.
Her phone was examined and revealed that she’d made several internet searches after the crash around what happened to drivers who are involved in hit and run and how to get away with it.
The investigation revealed Mistry would have only had one second to react to the pedestrian and that there was no evidence to support any sort of careless or dangerous driving and no excess speed or distraction.
