Hit and run suspect with extensive criminal record surrenders- four days after young boy is seriously injured on pedestrian crossing in Spain’s Valencia [Video]

A MOTORIST sought after a boy was run over on a Valencia pedestrian crossing, has handed himself into the police four days after the incident.

The boy, 8, is an induced coma at Valencia’s Clinical Hospital after suffering a brain injury and broken bones, including femur fractures in both legs.

The car owner, 22, went to a police station on Thursday- some 75 kilometres away in Cerda- accompanied by his lawyer and three family members.

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Relatives of the suspect told the Las Provincias news paper that he denies running over the child and that he lent his car to an unnamed individual.

The alleged driver, named as Angel C, has an extensive criminal record including two hate crime convictions in 2022, after he verbally …