A three-year-old girl is in critical condition at a hospital after police said a driver hit her in Brooklyn overnight Wednesday into Thursday.
NYPD officials said the girl was with her mother outside a home on 50th Street and Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park around midnight when she suddenly left her mother’s side and darted between two parked cars. The child ran into the street and was struck by a 43-year-old man driving a 2018 Nissan Sentra, according to police.
The girl sustained severe head injuries and was taken to Bellevue Hospital via private means, officials said. The driver and his three passengers — a 28-year-old woman, an 11-year-old girl and a 9-year-old girl — stayed at the scene and were not injured, police said.
The NYPD said its Highway District Collision Investigation Squad is looking into the crash. No arrests have been made in connection with the incident.
Police are also investigating another Brooklyn crash since Wednesday evening, which left a woman dead and happened in a parking lot at Floyd Bennett Field near Jamaica Bay.
Officials said a 33-year-old woman was driving a Toyota RAV4 in the south parking lot near Flatbush Avenue around 6:15 p.m. when she lost control and crashed into a building.
First responders took her to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition, and took a 45-year-old woman in the passenger seat to the same hospital in stable condition, according to the NYPD.
A 76-year-old woman in the back seat was also taken to Brookdale Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said. Officials later identified her as Bushwick resident Pearle Davis.
Police said they made no immediate arrests in the case.
NYPD data shows fatal crashes in the city are at about roughly the same level as at this point last year. Forty-five were recorded through April 5, 2026, down from 47 by the same date in 2025.
This story is based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.
