KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A mother is pleading for the driver who struck and injured her 2-year-old son to come forward.
The Kansas City Star reports that Eduardo Lopez Martinez was critically injured in Monday’s crash in Kansas City, Kansas. The driver didn’t stop, but the boy’s mother, Teresa Martinez, said Wednesday through an interpreter that the person had to have felt the crash.
Police said an older, white, four-door Chrysler sped off after striking the boy.
The director of the University of Kansas Hospital pediatric intensive care unit says Eduardo was breathing with the assistance of a ventilator. The child also suffered rib fractures, but there is no apparent brain damage. Eduardo is expected to survive.
Police are asking anyone with information to come forward.