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A hit-run livery driver plowed into a Brooklyn dad pushing his baby girl in a stroller yesterday, pinning the pair against the security gate of a bodega where the infant’s mom was shopping, authorities said.
“My baby! My baby!” the panicked mom wailed when she ran from the Bedford-Stuyvesant store and saw the mangled stroller and her badly wounded husband, recalled witness David Lopez, 21.
Cops said the driver of the smashed cab bolted on foot from the scene and was being sought.
The horrifying crackup happened at about 2 p.m. after a silver Hyundai smashed into the livery cab on Eastern Parkway near Thomas S Boyland Street, witnesses and police said.
The crash caused the livery cabby to lose control, and it jumped the curb right where the 27-year-old dad was standing with his year-old baby girl in a stroller on the sidewalk.
It plowed right into the pair as they stood next to the security gate of Arbelo Mini Market, at 1631 Eastern Parkway.
A horrified crowd gathered as rescuers scooped up the baby from the stroller and rushed her to Brookdale Hospital.
Her father, who suffered a massive leg injury, was taken to Kings County Hospital. His bloody shoe was left behind at the scene.
Their injuries were described as non-life-threatening.
The Hyundai driver, whose name was not released, remained at the site of the accident. It wasn’t clear whether he would be charged.
Lopez said the baby’s mom was buying something to drink when she heard the crunch of metal against the security gate.
“She went outside,” he said, and began to scream hysterically when she saw her baby in the stroller.
The little girl’s grandmother, Tracey Lindsay, later said that the baby was “fine” but that the father was undergoing surgery. His condition was not immediately known.
The livery cab is owned by Ivory Carting Corp., according to records. It had a sign identifying it as “Uexpress.”
Efforts to reach Ivory were not immediately successful last night.