A woman is facing charges after she allegedly struck another woman with her car in a Bedford, N.S. parking lot Tuesday morning.
Investigators say the alleged victim called police before noon after she noticed two small children had been left unattended in a parked vehicle in a parking lot on Damascus Road for roughly 20 minutes.
While officers were making their way to the area, police say the owner of the parked vehicle left a nearby store and was told that police would be arriving shortly and she would have to remain at the scene.
Police say the woman placed some items in her trunk, got into the driver’s seat and then struck the caller in the leg with her vehicle, forcing the woman up onto the engine bonnet.
The woman fell to the ground but wasn’t injured.
The driver then left the parking lot, heading towards Highway 102. Police located the vehicle along with the driver and two children, aged one and two, on Highway 101 near Exit 3.
The driver, a 25-year-old Newport Station woman, was arrested without incident and is facing charges of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and assault with a weapon.
She is due to appear in Halifax provincial court at a later date.
