Man, 9-year-old sister in critical condition after they were hit by car in Northwest Baltimore
BALTIMORE -- A 9-year-old girl and her adult brother were hospitalized in critical condition after a crash Monday morning in Northwest Baltimore, police said.
Officers responded shortly after 9 a.m. to the scene of the crash at Oakfield Avenue and Liberty Heights Avenue.
Investigators believe a school bus collided with a Ford Focus, sending the car into the two pedestrians.
Both the girl and her brother, a 22-year-old man, were hospitalized. The girl is listed in critical condition, while her brother is listed as critical, but stable, police said.
A man who witnessed the crash while he was working at the Maryland Food Bank told WJZ reporter Stephon Dingle he performed CPR on a young girl at the scene.
"It was a couple of people out here, you know what I mean, we jumped on the scene and tried to help," Witness Wayno Amonra said.
Amonra remembers what he said as he was trying to save the child's life.
"Don't die, don't die, we (have) enough going on in this city," he said. "It's enough death in this city. It's a horrible situation. Baby girl, survive this for your family. That's the only thing that was going through my head, that's all I was saying the whole time."
Amonra said he was working across the street when he jumped into action to save the life of the 22-year-old and 9-year-old.
"Well, we saw somebody fly through the stop sign, slammed into one car and that other car hit the crowd," he said. "It was a kid and her brother that was walking on the way to school."
People at the scene said the 9-year-old girl was a student at a nearby elementary school.
Baltimore City Schools officials gathered and even prayed at the scene. Schools in the area of the crash include Liberty Elementary School and Forest Park High School.
"I've been here 17 years," witness Rahsheda Flowers said. "I've had four cars run into my yard and totaled two of my cars."
Evidence marked at the scene includes a shoe, a book bag and a trash can that had been moved several feet.
"You can see the trash can that's up there in the yard was actually sitting on this corner right here," Amonra said. "When the car ran the stop sign, it hit that car and that car knocked them all the way all the way up there to the steps - almost a hundred feet."
The drivers of both vehicles were uninjured.
Roads were closed in the vicinity of the crash.
The Maryland Department of Transportation said it implemented a diversion for CityLink Lime for the following areas near the scene of the crash.
- Eastbound at Liberty Heights Avenue at Hillsdale Road
- Westbound at Liberty Heights Avenue at Berwyn Avenue
