An eight-year-old girl and her mother are recovering after being hit by a truck in Northeast Austin last month. The driver ran off but was caught and is now in jail.
The incident happened on March 24 around 9 p.m."We were coming from church," Barbara Carter said.Carter and her eight-year-old daughter, Anita, were riding in a motorized wheelchair down the sidewalk near the La Hacienda off Coronado Hills Drive."The truck just came out of nowhere," Carter said.The driver of the Ram truck was 46-year-old Jose Martinez-Lorenzo."He should have stopped, we don’t know why he didn’t stop," eight-year-old Anita Gonzales said.
"He needs help, and he needs to find God in his life," Anita said.Court documents said Martinez-Loreno admitted to hitting the little girl and her mother, and drove to a parking lot about half a mile from the crash because he knew "he did wrong."A DPS trooper found Martinez-Lorenzo and arrested him. Investigators said there was damage to the truck and what appeared to be human flesh stuck to the driver-side door.
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