A 71-year-old woman suffered severe injuries, including bleeding from her head, when a blue Toyota struck her during her daily walk on the 600 block of Addison Way in Warrington Township on Monday morning. What first looked like a person who had simply fallen turned into a felony hit-and-run investigation once neighbors handed over home security footage, and by Tuesday a 60-year-old driver named Anwar Hussain was facing six criminal and traffic charges.
According to the 6abc Philadelphia report from reporter Briana Smith, the woman was out walking around 9 a.m. Monday when the Toyota reversed out of a driveway at high speed and struck her, throwing her about 6 to 8 feet in the air. Authorities initially believed they were responding to a report of a person who had fallen, but that changed once neighbors began sharing surveillance footage roughly 45 minutes after the scene had cleared.
Warrington Township Police Department incident records reviewed via the department’s CrimeWatch page show emergency responders were actually dispatched at 9:01 a.m. Monday for a reported fall, before receiving neighbor information at 9:41 a.m. that reframed the case as a hit-and-run. That 40-minute gap proved decisive: first responders had already taken the victim to a trauma center by the time detectives realized what the video showed.
Video Shows Driver Checking on Victim, Then Driving Off
Per 6abc, surveillance videos revealed that the driver got out of his vehicle and looked at the injured woman before returning to his car and driving back up the driveway. A neighbor identified in the report as Priya said she called 911 and asked Hussain whether he had called for help; he told her to call 911 herself. Hussain then ran back to the scene holding his cell phone, but he later remained silent when questioned by police, per the outlet’s account…