A 2-year-old girl was hit by a vehicle in Lowell, Massachusetts, on Thursday evening, police said, and left with apparently life-threatening injuries.
Lowell police found the child with serious injuries near the intersection of Coburn and West Third streets, officials said. She was taken to a hospital in Boston.
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The driver who hit the girl stayed at the scene and was cooperating, according to police. They didn't share more about how the child was hit.
Caution tape blocked off several streets near the intersection Thursday night.
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A neighbor who ran out to help described the scene as being bloody and devastating.
"I prayed all along. I held the mother because she had nothing, she didn't know what to do. She was yelling, 'My baby, my baby, God, don't take my baby!" said Enid Rios, who ran outside after hearing her husband scream from her house.
A nurse stopped to attend to the girl, according to Rios. She said the girl was playing and was hit by a pickup truck that was driving down the street when she darted out between two cards.
"Whoever was coming was never going to see her," Rios said.
She said the driver didn't think he'd hit anything — bystanders flagged him down and told him to stop, and that when he learned what happened, "he was beside himself," adding, "it was an accident."
"He was crying. He was like, 'Please, God, I can't take a life,'" Rios said.
