Florida Child Injury Law Blog

A report of a particularly heartless hit-and-run pedestrian crash comes from South Florida television station WSVN. Police are looking for the hit-and-run driver who struck a young child, who is now confined to a wheelchair.

The six-year-old boy, a pedestrian, was hit by a car when he crossed Lucy Street near Second Avenue in Homestead, in the company of his father and three-year-old brother, at around 7 p.m. on Thursday. The boy was in the turn lane when he was hit by the car. The driver fled the scene without stopping.

Police have located the vehicle, but the whereabouts of the twenty-two-year-old driver is unknown.

The injured child was taken first to Homestead Hospital and then to Miami Children’s Hospital. He has been released in a wheelchair with a rod in his leg.

Police are appealing to the public for help in locating the missing driver. Leaving the scene of an accident in which a person has been injured in a third degree felony in Florida at present, but the Florida legislature is considering a bill introduced by Senator Mike Fasano to increase the penalty to a second degree felony.

Florida child injury attorney James Dodson has successfully represented many children injured when hit by cars in the state and has assisted their families in recovering damages to assure that the injured child is able to receive needed medical care.

Attorney Dodson has written a book, “When Kids Suffer Big Injuries,” which he makes available free of charge to the families of children who have been injured as pedestrians, available at http://www.jimdodsonlaw.com/.