Detectives investigating the death of a woman who plunged from a bridge on Coventry ring road want to speak to 200 potential witnesses.
They have identified 200 drivers who may be able to shed light on what happened to 41-year-old mum Genet Kidane on Wednesday January 12.
A week later, police returned to the spot where Genet was found dead after falling from a footbridge onto the ring road, near the Canal Basin.
They set up an automatic number plate recognition system, recording all cars passing the spot between 6.30am and 7am – the time Genet is believed to have fallen to her death.
A total of 700 cars were recorded driving past the scene and of those 200 have now been identified as potential witnesses.
Police will now be sending letters to the registered keepers of the cars in an effort to find people who may have been travelling on the same stretch of road a week earlier and may have witnessed the incident.
Genet - who leaves behind a 21-year-old daughter and was an Eritrean national - was walking to her job as a cleaner at Primark in Broadgate, at the time of her death.
A post mortem revealed Genet died as a result of multiple injuries from falling from the bridge onto the carriageway below.
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 1:25 pm