Girl, 6, has a fighting chance in car hit: kin

A 6-year-old girl critically injured during a hit-and-run accident on a Bronx street has “a good chance to live” following emergency surgery on her neck, the victim’s mother said Thursday.

Young Raguiatou Barry was fighting for her life at Jacobi Medical Center, two days after a car hit her on a Soundview street Tuesday afternoon as she was walking home from a school bus stop with her mom and siblings.

Kadiatou Barry told the Daily News that the nightmare unfolded just down the street from her home.

“It happened so quick. It was like a dream,” Kadiatou said. “I saw the car at the last minute, but couldn’t tell how fast it was going. It was a light gray, big car, like a Jeep. I was shocked, screaming for help to get someone to stop the car. I kept screaming that he killed my daughter. He slowed down after he did it. He looked in his mirrors and then sped off. I couldn’t do anything. She was unconscious on the ground. After the ambulance came, I went inside the ambulance to go with my daughter.”

The girl was crossing E. 172nd St. near Harrod Ave. in Soundview just after 4:50 p.m., when a vehicle going west struck her, police said.

Barry said she had just picked her kids up from the school bus stop a block away from her house when the accident happened.

“We live right there,” she said. “I hope he gets caught. I can’t believe that would happen right in front of our home.”

She said the other kids, ages 10, 9 and 2, were crying for their sister.

“I was crying, too,” she said. “I’m still crying.”

But Barry said she was a little relieved when doctors told her there were no broken bones in the girl’s neck.

“The doctor’s said she’s got a good chance to live,” Barry said.

Police were still looking for the driver.