The 14-year-old boy is in critical condition after he was hit by a car in Escondido. The driver took off. NBC 7’s Dave Summers reports.
A 14-year-old boy was in a hospital in critical condition Friday following a hit-and-run on an Escondido street.
A 911 caller reported spotting the victim lying in the roadway in the 1100 block of North Fig Street and hearing a vehicle traveling out of the area to the south at high speed shortly before 9:30 p.m. Thursday, according to police.
Escondido Police spokesman Paul Smyth told NBC 7 that witnesses described the vehicle as a dark gray sedan.
Paramedics took the victim, an Escondido resident who may have been on a skateboard when he was struck, to a trauma center for treatment of severe injuries, police said.
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The hit-and-run driver remained unidentified and at large Friday afternoon.
Investigators are asking anyone with information to contact Escondido Police.
When Evelyn Torres and her husband heard the collision, they thought their SUV was hit.
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"We are shook up because we didn't expect to see someone seriously injured," she told NBC 7 on Friday.
Torres says on closer examination, the victim was wearing a dark hoodie. He was facedown in agony on the street. While her son directed traffic around him, her daughter called 911.
"I feel very scared, very shocked, very sad. We couldn't sleep last night," she said.
