a sense of dread crept over the driver as he remembered the elderly woman lying by the side of the road , people 's daily online reported , and when he returned to the scene of the accident he found his mother 's house and found that she was n't home , neighbours told him that she had left early that morning with the intention of meeting him .
the driver , named in chinese media as mr zhang , drove past an injured woman who turned out to be his mother .