Police are searching for the driver who struck a 4-year-old girl in a hit-and-run crash Wednesday afternoon in the Longwood section of the Bronx.<\/p>\n
According to the NYPD, the child was crossing the street in front of 1075 Longfellow Ave. around 4 p.m. when she was struck by a gray Jeep traveling westbound on Longfellow Avenue. Police said the driver fled the scene, continuing westbound on Longfellow Avenue.<\/p>\n
The girl suffered a broken right leg and head trauma. She was taken by EMS to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Harlem, where police said she remains in stable condition.<\/p>\n
Witnesses told News 12 they saw the gray Jeep speeding down Longfellow Avenue before it struck the child. One witness said the impact sent the girl into the air.<\/p>\n
The crash happened just steps from a neighborhood playground, where residents say children are frequently outside.<\/p>\n
Maria Canela, who lives in an apartment overlooking the scene, said she heard the collision from inside her home.<\/p>\n
“I heard a big noise, like a boom. That’s what I heard because I live on the floor, my window is right here. So, when the cops were right here, they said they hit somebody,” Canela said.<\/p>\n
The NYPD released an image of the person wanted for questioning in connection with the collision and is asking for the public’s help in identifying the driver.<\/p>\n
Neighbors told News 12 that speeding has been a longstanding concern on Longfellow Avenue and are urging city officials to install stop signs and speed bumps to improve safety.<\/p>\n
News 12 reached out to the New York City Department of Transportation to ask whether it is aware of residents’ concerns. The agency had not responded as of Friday at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for the driver who struck a 4-year-old girl in a hit-and-run crash Wednesday afternoon in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-299072","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\/299072","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=299072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}