COQUITLAM RCMP are seeking additional witnesses and video for a hit-and-run that has sent one child pedestrian to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

On Sunday, June 23 shortly before 4 p.m., police were called to assist BC Ambulance Services after a seven-year-old child was hit by a vehicle in an alleyway north of Coquitlam Avenue near Wellington Street in Port Coquitlam. Police were advised that the vehicle, described as a 2016 grey Jeep Cherokee, had fled the scene.

The child was transported to hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

“We would like to thank the initial witnesses who came to the aid of the child and provided critical information to our responding officers,” said Media Relations Officer, Cpl. Alexa Hodgins, on Wednesday. “We are releasing video of the driver and vehicle prior to the collision in the hopes that someone may recognize seeing this vehicle and the driver on Sunday, June 23, 2024.”

Coquitlam RCMP frontline officers later located the vehicle and the driver near Pinetree Way and Guildford Way in Coquitlam.

“Police are looking to piece together the timeline between the collision at 3:46 p.m. in the alleyway north of Coquitlam Avenue near Wellington Street in Port Coquitlam to when police later located the driver and vehicle near Pinetree Way and Guildford Way in Coquitlam at 4:40 p.m.,” said Hodgins. “We are asking anyone who may have witnessed a 2016 grey Jeep Cherokee driving between 3:45 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. on Sunday, June 23, 2024, to contact the Coquitlam RCMP and quote file number 2024-16039.”

Criminal charges will be forwarded for approval to BC Prosecution Services.

Anyone who has any information or has witnessed this incident or may have video footage is asked to contact the Coquitlam RCMP at 604-945-1550, and quote file number 2024-16039.