'I left, so I'm worse': 82-year-old driver nails 7-year-old on electric scooter, blames him for 'not stopping where they're supposed to,' police say

An 82-year-old Florida pistillate driving location from visiting her son's location struck a 7-year-old lad connected an electrical scooter earlier she fled the scene and near him connected the broadside of the roadworthy "unable to move," according to cops.

The incidental occurred astir noon connected Jan. 10, astatine the intersection of SW 32nd Street and SW 82nd Avenue successful Miami. A probable origin apprehension affidavit said the lad was connected a scooter with his parent trailing behind. He was trying to transverse 32nd Street erstwhile helium was deed by a Toyota Camry owned by 82-year-old Karina Pubchara-Martinez, who aboriginal admitted she was the operator who deed the lad and fled the scene, according to the affidavit.

Pubchara-Martinez ne'er stopped the Camry and kept going, cops said. When officers arrived connected the scene, they recovered the lad "unable to move" connected the broadside of the road. He was suffering from an "acute caput injury" on with a breached femur and different scrapes and bruises. Paramedics rushed the lad to the hospital.

Investigators yet identified the fishy conveyance and located it astir 2 weeks aboriginal connected Jan. 22, astir 3 miles distant from the clang site. The car inactive had front-end harm accordant with the crash, cops wrote successful the affidavit.

Cops placed Pubchara-Martinez astatine the country of the clang utilizing her cellphone location. She is facing a complaint of leaving the country of a clang with superior injury. She turned herself successful connected Monday and has since posted a $7,500 bond.

While she declined to talk with investigators, she spoke extensively to section NBC affiliate WTVJ. She appeared to blasted the lad for the crash, saying helium popped retired successful beforehand of her arsenic she was driving location from visiting her son.

"I was passing the jailhouse erstwhile they deed me," she told the station. "I got acrophobic due to the fact that my glasses weren't connected my look and I ran distant and that's precise bad," she added, seemingly admitting to leaving the scene.

"I was passing done and they didn't halt erstwhile they're expected to halt and they deed me," she besides said. "But I left, truthful I'm worse."

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Pubchara-Martinez went connected to accidental that she was "sorry for what happened" and was praying for the well-being of the lad she hit.

Meanwhile, the boy's parent said successful an interrogation with WTVJ that she doesn't recognize wherefore idiosyncratic could deed a kid and not stop.

"Had I not been outside, I astir apt would've recovered him dormant oregon something," the parent said.

The lad has already had galore surgeries.

"He has a agelong roadworthy up of him," she said.