Man arrested in hit and run

BROOKLYN (WABC) -- Police have arrested a Brooklyn man in a hit-and-run car accident that left a 9-year-old girl critically injured.

The mother of Nacirema Brown says her daughter is in a medically induced coma at Brookdale Medical Center. Dakema Brown says the girl has a fractured skull, bleeding on the brain and is "not breathing on her own." She says doctors have given her daughter a 50 percent chance of survival.

Police say a car struck the girl Saturday evening as she crossed Rockaway Avenue at Glenmore Avenue in Brooklyn. They say the vehicle then drove off.

Police have charged the 41-year-old suspect with leaving the scene of an accident.

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