18-month-old girl in a critical condition after crash in Cambridge

An 18-month-old girl is in a critical condition in hospital following a single-vehicle crash in Cambridge.

A Nissan Qashqai was in collision with a parked car at about 7pm yesterday (Sunday, July 24) in St Barnabas Road, off Mill Road.

A police spokesperson said: “The girl suffered life-threatening injuries and remains in Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.

“Details are sketchy as to who was travelling in the vehicle at the time but it is believed to be at least the girl, a woman and another child.

“No one else was seriously injured.

“A 32-year-old woman from Cambridge has been arrested in connection on suspicion of drink driving, dangerous driving, failure to stop and child neglect and is in custody at Parkside Police Station.

“A 21-year-old woman has been arrested in connection on suspicion of child neglect.”

Anyone who witnessed the incident should contact police via their web chat service or online forms at cambs.police.uk/report quoting incident 416 of 24 July.