Search Continues For Driver After Mother, 2 Children Struck In Point Breeze
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The search continues for a driver after investigators say a woman and her two children were struck Tuesday in Philadelphia's Point Breeze neighborhood.
"It was probably the worst moment of my life," said Arthur McMillan.
The video too horrific for Arthur McMillan to watch, his heart nearly stopped Tuesday when he got the call his wife and two of his little girls had been struck by an alleged hit-and-run driver, the terrifying moments caught on a nearby surveillance camera.
"They're telling me that she was hit by a car, she's unable to make decisions, I freaked out," he said.
Stefanie McMillan was crossing the street at Broad and Dickinson in South Philadelphia Tuesday on the way to a doctor's appointment when a driver allegedly ran a light striking her and two girls, a five-year-old and four-month-old. Stefanie suffered head injuries and the five-year-old had surgery for a broken leg.
"She's in good spirits, she's just asking about the scars and stuff like that and I'm like, 'Baby you're beautiful don't worry about it,' because she feels the dried blood and whatnot on her face,'" said McMillan.
"I just thank God that they were alive and I just praised the Lord, I said Lord thank you for sparing them," said Benjamin Thomas, Stefanie's father.
Police are now looking for a female driver and an older model red Honda Accord with a missing side mirror.
"I'm just praying that the Lord touches the person's heart to give themselves up because that's a horrific event whether they panicked or not or whatever the situation was," said Thomas.
The family is grateful to all the strangers who stopped to help, like Rev. Paul Hurricane Moore who prayed with Stefanie on the street and others.
"I owe you my life because you talked my wife through it, she remembers saying somebody is going to come, take the baby," said McMillan. "From the bottom of my heart, thank you guys."
Anyone with information is asked to call police.
