Children injured in hit and run accident

  Eyewitness News

BROOKLYN (WABC) -- Two children suffered injuries in a hit and run accident in Brooklyn.

Accident happened at 3:15 p.m. at Marcy Avenue and Quincy Street in the Bed-Stuy section.

Police said the driver of a Black 1988 Mercedes Benz somehow struck a tree, then jumped the curb striking the two children on the sidewalk.

The boys are brothers, 16 and 4 years old. They were walking home from school, police said.

The boys, identified by relatives as Dillan Jackson and his elder brother Dwayne, 16, were hospitalized in stable condition.

The 4-year-old was the more injured of the two, suffering a broken pelvis and a broken leg.

The boys' father died in 2005, said their uncle, Jerome Matthews, 27. The older boy is a junior at the Brooklyn High School of the Arts, he said.

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