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Mother Taking Baby Out of Car Critically Wounded By Hit-Run Driver: NYPD

By  Gwynne Hogan and Nicholas Rizzi | May 29, 2017 10:31am | Updated on May 30, 2017 9:49am

 The 37-year-old woman was had severe wounds to her legs, though her child was unharmed, police said.
The 37-year-old woman was had severe wounds to her legs, though her child was unharmed, police said.
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ST. GEORGE — Doctors saved the legs of a mother who was injured when a hit-and-run driver sideswiped her while she was reaching into her car's backseat to get a 4-month-old baby boy, officials said.

Monique Knight, 37, was listed in critical but stable condition Tuesday morning at Richmond University Medical Center after she had fractures in both of her legs from the St. George crash, according to the hospital.

On Monday morning, the driver of a gray Jeep Cherokee came barreling north on Westervelt Avenue near the intersection of Hendricks Avenue in St. George, Staten Island, at 12:13 a.m., when he rammed into a parked car and then smashed into Knight who was standing beside her Ford Explorer, police said.

Knight was standing in the roadway at the backseat driver's side of her car, reaching into the vehicle when the out-of-control driver mowed into her, police said.

Emergency workers rushed her to Richmond University Medical Center with severe wounds to her leg. The baby wasn't injured, though he was also taken to the hospital for observation, police said.

Reports said the boy was either Knight's son or nephew and she was coming home after spending Memorial Day at an amusement park with her family.

The driver of the Jeep fled the scene and hadn't been apprehended as of Tuesday morning, police said.