{"id":299040,"date":"2026-07-17T21:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299040\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:59:09","slug":"cops-seek-hit-and-run-driver-who-injured-4-year-old-girl-outside-bronx-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299040\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops Seek Hit-And-Run Driver Who Injured 4-Year-Old Girl Outside Bronx Playground"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Cops say this is the man who hit Aicha Camara on Wednesday in the Bronx. Photo: NYPD<\/p>\n

Cops are hunting for the driver who hit a 4-year-old girl near a park on Wednesday and fled as she was taken to the hospital with an apparent head injury.<\/p>\n

Aicha Camara was hit around 4 p.m. near the Longfellow Playground in the Longwood section of the Bronx, her sister and police said. In addition to the unspecified head wound, the driver also shattered her right leg, cops said.<\/p>\n

A witness said the driver of the gray Jeep never slowed after the crash, which was on Longfellow between E. 165th and E. 167th streets.<\/p>\n

\u201cA little girl was crossing the street and a car came fast and kept going,\u201d said the witness Jason Coronado. \u201cI feel so bad for that little girl, it made me cry.\u201d<\/p>\n

The victim\u2019s sister, Mmahawa Traore, 22, said the family moved to the South Bronx from Tennessee two years ago. Right now, she said the family is focused on the child\u2019s recovery and the police effort to find the driver.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes me mad because you just hit an innocent child and you did not stop to at least see what happened instead of just driving away,\u201d said the sister. \u201cYou never know when it\u2019ll be happening to your family or you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another resident of the area said drivers speed on the narrow road.<\/p>\n

\"\"Aicha Camara was struck by a driver here near this playground in the Bronx. Photo: Emily Smith<\/p>\n

\u201cCars run through here like it\u2019s the highway,\u201d said Maria Canela, who called for more enforcement against reckless drivers. \u201cThe cops said they can\u2019t do nothing about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2011, the Department of Transportation put in \u201cSlow Zone\u201d signs on concrete blocks in marked boxes in the roadway on Longfellow Avenue. But four years later, Streetsblog caught DOT moving the signs<\/a> further from the roadway onto the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should have more stop signs because there\u2019s not even a stop sign at the street where it happened,\u201d Traore said.<\/p>\n

Her sister is expected home from Harlem Hospital tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to move away,\u201d said Traore, \u201cto somewhere safer, streetwise.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NYPD is urging anyone with information about the crash to call 800-577-8477 (or, in Spanish, 888-577-4782). The public can also submit tips at the Crime Stoppers website<\/a>, or on X @NYPDTips<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops say this is the man who hit Aicha Camara on Wednesday in the Bronx. Photo: NYPD Cops…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-299040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}