Man charged after two people were killed and a child was seriously injured when family was hit by a car in Ramsgate | UK News
A man has been charged after an incident in Kent that left two people dead and a child seriously injured, police said.
Black Alfa Romeo hit five pedestriansall members of the same family, outside a multi-storey car park on Leopold Road in Ramsgate, at about 9:35 a.m. Wednesday.
Yoram Hirshfeld, 78, and his daughter, Noga Hirshfeld, 40, a Cambridge physicist, were killed, and a primary school-age girl was seriously injured and is in a serious but stable condition. at a hospital in London.
A man in his 40s and a boy of primary school age suffered minor injuries.
Nitesh Bissandary, 30, of Highlands Glade, Manston, Kent, has been charged with two counts of death by dangerous driving, two counts of serious injury by dangerous driving and assault causing harm realistic body.
He was also charged with failing to stop at the scene of a road traffic collision, driving under the influence of drugs and failing to provide samples for analysis.
He will appear at Margate Magistrates Court on Saturday.
A vigil was held on Thursday evening on Leopold Street to pay tribute to the family, who were on holiday in Ramsgate.
His friends Hirshfeld, a former professor of mathematics at Tel Aviv University in Israel, spoke of his kindness.
Meanwhile, tributes have also gone to Miss Hirshfeld, also known as Noga Sella, who served as the Girl Guides team leader with the 2nd Milton Guide and the Milton Rangers in Cambridgeshire.
Officials investigating the incident also arrested a 58-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman on suspicion of assisting an offender and possessing with the intent to supply Class A drugs.
Both have been released on bail until September 8.
