Teen seriously injured by hit-run driver on Bay Ridge street
Police are looking for a driver who struck and seriously injured a 15-year-old boy on a Bay Ridge street corner and then fled the scene.
The victim was crossing the intersection of Fourth Avenue and 78th Street at 8:05 p.m. on Feb. 16 when he was hit by a 2002 Audi. The driver did not stop, police said.
A short time after the accident, the Audi was discovered abandoned on 93rd Street near Fourth Avenue, police said. “The person left the car in the street. The car had front end damage,” a New York Police Department spokeswoman said.
The car was traced to a Staten Island woman, according to a source familiar with the investigation. The woman, who questioned by police, was not driving the car at the time of the accident, the source said.