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<\/p>\nPHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — A North Philadelphia mother is pleading for a driver to come forward after her 9-year-old daughter was seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash in the city’s Tioga neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Zi-Yonnie Talley was struck around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday on the 3200 block of Germantown Avenue. Investigators say a vehicle traveling northbound hit the girl near Westmoreland Street and then fled the scene.<\/p>\n
Zi-Yonnie’s mother, Shanae Talley, returned to the scene Wednesday after leaving the hospital, where her daughter remains in stable condition.<\/p>\n
“She keeps on crying and talking about she don’t want to to die, and I just want them to find whoever did this to my daughter,” Talley said.<\/p>\n
Talley said her daughter was standing near the corner with her younger brother, older sister, and friends when the vehicle came down Germantown Avenue.<\/p>\n
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“It was swerving down Germantown coming towards Allegheny, then hit my daughter and the pole,” Talley said.<\/p>\n
“She flew from the sidewalk to the middle of the street,” she said.<\/p>\n
Talley said Zi-Yonnie suffered a broken leg and bleeding near her kidneys.<\/p>\n
“She’s doing OK; she’s just in a lot of pain with her leg broke, and she has bleeding along her kidneys and stuff,” Talley said.<\/p>\n
The crash happened just yards from Zi-Yonnie’s school. She was supposed to begin school Monday but will now have to start with online learning as she recovers.<\/p>\n
Her mother is also calling for additional speed cameras in the area.<\/p>\n
“I think they should have the same speeding cameras they have on Broad Street; they need to put on this little block too,” Talley said.<\/p>\n
Police say they are still searching for surveillance video, witnesses and a description of the vehicle involved.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact police.<\/p>\n
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