A 3-year-old and his mom were fighting for their lives after an out-of-control car hopped a curb and smashed into them in Brooklyn yesterday, cops said.
In all, 12 people were hurt — four critically — when a Lincoln sedan smashed through a bus stop and rammed a sidewalk shed, making it collapse.
Witnesses saw the boy facedown and unconscious near a pile of shattered glass, blood gushing from his tiny head.
“That little baby looked dead,” said Lawrence Nicholas, who rushed over from a nearby hair salon.
“When I looked in the baby’s eyes, I never saw any life. I started to cry,” said Paris Rainey, 30.
Good Samaritans tried to revive the injured boy.
“I ran outside and jumped over the car. I tried to do CPR on the baby,” said Lenox Blocker, 40. “The baby wasn’t even winking.”
The crash happened at about 6:50 p.m. when a woman driving north on Utica Avenue swerved to avoid another car near Church Avenue, cops said.
“They said the lady who hit them must have fainted or did something, because she didn’t know what happened,” said the boy’s aunt, Dierdra McCorkle, 51.
She said the family was hoping for an Easter miracle.
McCorkle wailed and fell to the floor when she received the news that her nephew was ailing.
“I’m devastated,” she said. “Why couldn’t God take me and let him live his life longer?”
McCorkle described young Denim as a “bright kid” who learned quickly and loved to eat. She said the mom will be devastated when she learns the news.
“This is going to kill her,” McCorkle said. “Oh my God.”
Doctors tried to reassure the family that the boy was not suffering.
“This is not a painful thing for him,” one doctor told relatives. “He’s out. He’s not conscious.”
Doctors said the mother was expected to recover, but has a difficult road ahead.
“She’s not completely out of the woods,” a doctor said. “We’re watching her very carefully. We just need to focus our prayers on her.
Besides the baby and his mother, the injured included the driver, a nephew riding with her, and eight others. One woman was pinned between the car and a storefront, a witness said.
The boy, his mother, and two other women were in critical condition last night at Kings County Hospital. Four pedestrians — including a man, 86 — were taken to Brookdale Hospital.
Police do not believe the crash was a crime.