A man who drove for almost 100 feet with a 12-year-old girl trapped underneath his van has walked free from court.
Haider Ali, 27, was at a Tim Hortons drive-thru restaurant buying coffee and donuts when he failed to see the youngster cross in front of his Vauxhall Combo van.
When Ali, from Rochdale, was subsequently interviewed by police he said he did not realise his van had hit the girl and said he thought he had run over the traffic cone. At Tameside Magistrates Court, Ali admitted the lesser charge of driving without due care and attention. In mitigation Ali's solicitor Seraj Khan said: 'The defendant accepts that he had finished work. He was trying to get some food with a friend at Tim Hortons. He has attended and has correctly proceeded into the car park.
'It was not until a member of the public informed him what was happening, when he has come to realise that there was a child stuck under the vehicle. 'The defendant is someone in full time employment. As the time he was in his work van. He works as a full-time engineer for an intel company. He is an engineer who fits wifi, fibre and internet in homes and deals with any issues that anyone has with the internet.
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