CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Police are still looking for the driver who hit a 7-year-old while crossing the road in front of school and kept going.
The child was rushed to the hospital Monday afternoon.
According to CMS officials, a Tuckaseegee Elementary School student was crossing the street with his mother at 2028 Little Rock Road on Monday afternoon when he was hit by a car.
The driver then sped away from the scene. Sources say the vehicle is a champagne-colored Mazda Millenia.
Lewis Tyler lives across the street and says drivers speed through that stretch of Little Rock Road.
"It's ridiculous," he said. "It really is."
His wife, Bonnie finds it hard to believe a driver would hit a child and not stop.
"There's gotta be a reason they took off," she said. "They could have thought they'd get in trouble or they could just not be licensed or something."
But Tyler has a bigger concern: the light that is supposed to alert drivers to slow down by flashing at certain times of the day. He told WBTV's Brigida Mack the light doesn't work.
There's a flashing school sign," he said. "But as of today, it wasn't flashing. It's just got one solid light. If it's not flashing, they're not gonna do 35 miles an hour, they're going to do 45."
The child was transferred to Carolinas Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
The child was rushed to the hospital Monday afternoon.
According to CMS officials, a Tuckaseegee Elementary School student was crossing the street with his mother at 2028 Little Rock Road on Monday afternoon when he was hit by a car.
The driver then sped away from the scene. Sources say the vehicle is a champagne-colored Mazda Millenia.
Lewis Tyler lives across the street and says drivers speed through that stretch of Little Rock Road.
"It's ridiculous," he said. "It really is."
His wife, Bonnie finds it hard to believe a driver would hit a child and not stop.
"There's gotta be a reason they took off," she said. "They could have thought they'd get in trouble or they could just not be licensed or something."
But Tyler has a bigger concern: the light that is supposed to alert drivers to slow down by flashing at certain times of the day. He told WBTV's Brigida Mack the light doesn't work.
There's a flashing school sign," he said. "But as of today, it wasn't flashing. It's just got one solid light. If it's not flashing, they're not gonna do 35 miles an hour, they're going to do 45."
The child was transferred to Carolinas Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
