According to new information from Channel 10, after a hit-and-run incident in Jerusalem on Friday, during which a six-year-old boy was seriously injured, the police started chasing the perpetrator - only to discover they were after the wrong vehicle.
The accident occurred at the Bar Ilan Interchange in Jerusalem after the driver, a 21-year-old resident of the city, hit the child with his vehicle and drove from the scene of the incident. The police initiated a chase, which included setting up roadblocks in the surrounding area. The next morning they arrested the perpetrator after he was turned in by his brother.
From the investigation afterward, it was revealed that the traffic light at the junction where the incident took place was not functioning at the time, since Shabbat had begun [in some neighborhoods, traffic lights don't function on the Jewish Sabbath]. In addition, it was revealed that the driver successfully fled the scene after police in the area mistakenly chased after the wrong vehicle, apparently due to the fact that eye-witnesses at the scene pointed to a taxi that had presumably perpetrated the hit-and-run.
The driver, after he was arrested, related his version of events: "after I hit the boy, my little brother got out of the car to check on the boy - and came back terrified. I went into a panic, I knew that I was driving without a license, and that, in another week, I was to begin community service for past offenses. I hid the car and went to walk around. I got to my brother's house and told him what had happened, he told me to turn myself in."
However, police do not believe the version of events of the driver, who has never had a driver's license, since he did not turn himself in; rather, his older brother turned him in. His arrest has been extended several days.