A 4-year-old Brooklyn boy who dashed away from his mom was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver on Thursday morning, just steps away from a local hospital, police and sources said.
The boy was walking with his mom near Linden Boulevard and Rockaway Parkway across the street from Brookdale University Hospital shortly after 11 a.m. when he was hit by a Ford SUV, which sped away from the scene of the tragedy and left the injured boy on the ground, cops said.
The youngster was taken to Brookdale, where he was pronounced dead.
Law enforcement sources said the boy ran from his mom and into the street before he was hit.
Police, who responded to the scene on a 911 call, are searching for the driver.
The boy’s death comes one month after an 11-year-old girl was killed by a packed school bus while crossing a Brooklyn street
An the youngster was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver of a school bus full of students while she was in the crosswalk in Brooklyn’s Gravesend neighborhood.
Cops later charged the driver, Wawa Aurelus, 62, of Brooklyn, with motor vehicle failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care,
In January, former Nickelodeon child star Kianna Underwood, 33, was struck and killed by an SUV while crossing Pitkin Boulevard at Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brownsville.
