8-Year-Old Girl Struck By Hit-And-Run Driver In Marine Park, Brooklyn
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- An 8-year-old girl was struck by a hit-and-run driver Saturday in Brooklyn.
The crash happened around 5:35 p.m. on East 31st Street near Kings Highway in Marine Park.
Police said the child was hit by a red, four-door sedan, which fled the scene.
Friends told CBS2's Jessica Borg they were playing outside when the driver hit the girl. They screamed for help and the child's mother came running to find her daughter lying in the street in pain and shock.
"She was screaming, 'I can't breathe, I can't breathe," witness Jay Richter said.
A sign on the residential street reads, "Drive Like Your Kids Live Here," but parents told Borg that drivers rarely do. They said cars travel much faster than the 25 miles per hour speed limit, and they want speed bumps to slow them down.
"I see cars coming down speeding, because there's no light at the corners, just a stop sign," Richter said. "So they just try to zoom down the block, fast enough to have what happened today."
Hatzallah, a Jewish ambulance company, rushed the child to Maimonides Medical Center where she was treated for head trauma.
The girl's grandmother told Borg she is recovering and is expected to be OK.
