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| Yasmelin Iglesias |
A teen girl is suffering from serious injuries after being hit by a vehicle while she was crossing a street in the Borough Park area of Brooklyn, New York, according to rescue workers.
Brooklyn Police said that a 16-year-old girl is clinging to life after being hit by a vehicle while crossing a street in Brooklyn just before 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday.
Yasmelin Iglesias was in the crosswalk at 48th Street and 6th Avenue when she was struck. She was transported to Lutheran Medical Center with severe head injuries.
Her family said that she will be undergoing a series of surgeries.
"I hope she has the strength to survive these surgeries. She is young, but does not eat that much. She is very thin," her grandmother, Altagracia Lamb, 64, said.
The police said that she was crossing the street with her mother when a white van traveling south on 6th Avenue ran her over.
“You cannot die,” the mother of the teen was heard screaming at the scene.
The 29-year-old, who was driving the van stayed at the scene.