A heavily pregnant cyclist who was seriously injured in a hit an run incident in Leicester has lost her baby, police have confirmed.
The incident happened on Aylestone Road at around 9.30pm on Monday evening, close to Park Hill Drive.
The injured cyclist, who is aged in her 40s, sustained serious injuries and was taken to Leicester Royal Infirmary, where she is still being treated.
In an update this afternoon, Leicestershire Police said: “Sadly, following medical examination, it was found that the injured woman had lost her baby.”
Yesterday, police arrested a 40-year-old man on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and on suspicion of driving while under the influence of alcohol in connection with the incident.
He has been released from custody today while officers continue their investigations.
Detective Sergeant Paul Hawkins said: “We are continuing to provide support to the woman injured and her family as the investigation continues.
“Despite the arrest our enquiries remain ongoing as we continue to establish the full circumstances of the incident on Monday evening.
“We do urge anyone who has any information in relation to the incident, and who has not yet spoken with us, to make contact.
“Anyone who has any CCTV or dashcam footage from the scene of the collision at the time of the incident or prior to the collision should also get in touch.”
He added: “I would like to thank everyone who has shared our appeals and provided information to us so far.”
Anyone with any information should contact police on 101 quoting incident 630 of 2 December.

13 thoughts on “Updated: Pregnant cyclist seriously injured in hit and run crash loses baby”
Sadly she has now lost her
Sadly she has now lost her baby.
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/heavily-pregnant-hit-run-victim-3608616
Oh that’s terrible news.
Oh that’s terrible news.
Utterly tragic. The victim
Utterly tragic. The victim is in her forties so she may not have another chance of pregnancy.
How do irresponsible drivers like this scumbag ever live with themselves afterwards? What’s so depressing is that we know already the punishment won’t fit the crime.
He’ll probably be knighted in
He’ll probably be knighted in the new year’s honours list.
Awful news. If the driver was
Awful news. If the driver was over the limit what other f#@# circumstances are they looking for??? Some potential that the cyclist threw herself under a drunk drivers car and therefore its the cyclists fault? The driver should be in custody for committing what is now manslaughter.
Disgusting scum, manslaughter
Disgusting scum, manslaughter charges plus with aggravating factors should see this POS banged away for a very long time if the police can find the animal!
Out on bail and probably
Out on bail and probably driving around in his killing machine.
Even if convivted he will shortly be back on the roads driving around in his killing machine.
Something has to change. Too many lives are being ruined.
Very sad news. My sympathy
Very sad news. My sympathy goes out to the victims. I truely hope that the “justice system” lives up to its name in this case.
That’s terrible news. It’ll
That’s terrible news. It’ll be really difficult for the woman to come to terms with a horrible incident like this. As for the driver, he shouldn’t ever be allowed behid the wheel again. A manslaughter charge would be appropriate.
Words escape me. The poor
Words escape me. The poor woman
Latest update – charged with
Death of foetus potentially covered under Child Destruction legislation, as in this case
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-35551165
it’ll be dealt with under
it’ll be dealt with under pish poor motor vehicle legislation and he’ll get a short ban, that is all.
Depends – there was another H
Depends – there was another H&R in Leicester yesterday, this time on a pedestrian. That’s drawn an attempted murder charge but I suspect that’s due to fact he’s also been charged with breaching a restraining order.