Mom and 4 children, including baby in stroller, run over at school bus stop by driver trying to escape police

Mom and 4 children, including baby in stroller, run over at school bus stop by driver trying to escape police
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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK: A female hit-and-run driver struck a mother and her four children, including a baby in a stroller, in Brooklyn on Wednesday, November 30, while she was trying to escape from police. The incident took place in Midwood at New York Avenue and Avenue J just before 5 pm.

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Police said that after they attempted to stop a white Mercedes-Benz along Flatbush Avenue, the driver fled on Avenue J and struck the family after running stop signs. According to WABC, the mother and two of her children were waiting for the school bus for her other two children to arrive when the accident occurred.