Vehicle sought in hit-and-run involving 10-year-old, police say

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Life-threatening injuries were reported, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office connected Wednesday nighttime asked for assistance locating a car that constabulary accidental struck a 10-year-old and an big who were crossing a street.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, life-threatening injuries were reported successful the hit-and-run, though it’s unclear if some the kid and big sustained life-threatening injuries.

Police said astatine astir 3 p.m., arsenic a “marked and lighted” schoolhouse autobus was dropping disconnected children on Hyde Park Road, the kid and big were struck portion crossing the thoroughfare successful beforehand of a bus. The Sheriff’s Office said the car fled the country and was past seen traveling southbound connected Hyde Park Road toward Blanding and Wilson boulevards.

The greenish car was said to person what appeared to beryllium a garbage container connected the backmost driver’s broadside window. The operator was described arsenic a pistillate with reddish hair.

Anyone with accusation is asked to interaction the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office astatine 904-630-0500 oregon done email astatine JSOCrimeTips@jaxsheriff.org. To stay anonymous and person a imaginable reward up to $3,000 interaction Crime Stoppers astatine 1-866-845-TIPS.

Dearah Neevel lives down the thoroughfare and saw constabulary arrive.

“I person 2 children that thrust the schoolhouse autobus and some of them person to transverse the street, truthful it makes maine consciousness adjacent though they’re 13 oregon 16 that I can’t adjacent fto them locomotion by themselves, that I request to spell and prime them up,” Neevel said.