The hit-and-run took place on Monday in the Bronx area of Pelham Gardens. The video shows the driver jumping out of his car and then getting back in and pulling away. The mother, 62, was pushing through the intersection with her three-year-old grandson. Fortunately, casualties were not serious as a boy suffered a head cut. Grandma received a bruised knee and refused to receive medical care.
SUV Driver Crashes Into Grandmother, 62, And Her Three-Year-Old Grandson Miraculously Leaving Them With Only Cuts And Bruises
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Haider Ali in
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On 29th December 2020
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CCTV video shows an SUV driver plowing his car into a 62-year-old grandma and her 3-year-old grandson at a Bronx intersection
A terrible CCTV video shows an SUV driver plowing his car into a 62-year-old grandma and her 3-year-old grandson at a Bronx intersection in broad daylight on Monday in his baby stroller. A Putnam County person believed to be the driver of the red GMC Terrain Denali was arrested by the New York Police Department on Sunday.
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The accident occurred on Monday at around 2:20 pm at the junction of Mace Avenue and Eastchester Road
WABC-TV confirmed that Otello Rapini, 69, of Mahopac, New York, has been connected with fleeing the scene of an accident. The accident occurred on Monday at around 2:20 pm at the junction of Mace Avenue and Eastchester Road in The Bronx's Pelham Gardens area.
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As per the police the driver momentarily got out of his SUV after the crash
The driver momentarily got out of his SUV after the crash, according to the police, before jumping back in and speeding off. Luckily, the boy and his grandma did not suffer major injuries.
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However serious injuries didnot occur
The child was hospitalized while his grandmother refused medical attention for a wound to the head. She suffered a knee that was swollen. None of them spent the night in a hospital, though. Erlon Kola, the father of the child, is glad that his child and mother in law did not badly injure.
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The driver ran away and didnot try to stop
‘He didn't make any attempt to stop and try to do the right thing like any other human being would've done,’ Kola said of the driver.
‘And I'm just really shocked and obviously disappointed by that, but in the meantime, I'm just glad my son is still here with me, so that's all that matters.’
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On the day when the incident occured Kola left his son with his mother in law and went on shopping
On Monday, Kola went shopping for Christmas and left his child with his mother-in-law. When he got a phone call from his mother-in-law telling him about the incident, he was close by.
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Just three days before the boy turned three years old on Christmas Eve, the hit-and-run took place
Kola hurried immediately to the scene, where, in an ambulance, he saw his son and mother-in-law. In the emergency department, his wife, a nurse practitioner at a nearby hospital, approached the three of them. Just three days before the boy turned three years old on Christmas Eve, the hit-and-run took place.