West Midlands Police has issued a picture of the man who was killed in a hit-and-run on Soho Road in Handsworth has been named.<\/p>\n
Rajesh Chand, 29-year-old\u00a0from Handsworth was knocked down in the early hours of Saturday 30 August was pronounced dead a short time later<\/p>\n
A 30-year-old has also been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving in connection with the incident and is in police custody.<\/p>\n
Police has also revealed details of a car seen in the area which it is looking to trace. It is a black Audi A4 S Line Estate with the number plate of NJ60 UOX.<\/p>\n
Mr Chand\u2019s grieving family have asked that their privacy is respected at this time.<\/p>\n
Detective Sergeant Paul Hughes from the Serious Collision Investigation Unit has today renewed his appeal: \u201cI am now in a position to release the details of a specific car we are looking for.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would ask that anyone that has knowledge of a Black Audi A4 S Line Estate car, with the number plate NJ60 UOX, to come forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis car is likely to have significant damage to the front nearside headlight and I would urge anyone who knows where it is currently located to contact us immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would also like to appeal directly to the driver of this Audi to do the right thing and contact police.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is important that I also remind the public not to speculate on the cause of the collision. This is a fast paced and complex investigation that we are working very hard to solve.\u201d<\/p>\n
Contact the Serious Collision Investigation Unit on email at\u00a0 FL_COLLISION_INVEST@west-midlands.pnn.police.uk, call 101 or Live Chat us via www.west-midlands.police.uk\u00a0between 8am and midnight.<\/p>\n
Crimestoppers can be contacted anonymously on 0800 555 111. Please quote log number 484 of 31 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
West Midlands Police has issued a picture of the man who was killed in a hit-and-run on Soho Road in Handsworth has been named. Rajesh Chand, 29-year-old\u00a0from Handsworth was knocked down in the early hours of Saturday 30 August was pronounced dead a short time later A 30-year-old has also been arrested on suspicion of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}