Canton police said they've identified the person who was driving the vehicle that struck a 7-year-old Cherry Brook Primary School student on Tuesday afternoon and found the car. They have not arrested anyone.
A girl, who is in second grade, was walking home from a store with her father and two siblings when a red car struck her in first block of Dowd Avenue around 5:30 p.m., police said.
She was thrown into the air. Pink shoes mark the spot where it happened. The driver did not stop, police said.
Kirsten Hallum, of Canton, did not see the crash, but stopped to help.
"I stopped in the road because I saw a pair of pink sneakers laying there and then, across on the other side was maybe three to four people giving CPR to the girl," Hallum said. "She got clipped by some thoughtless person who was just driving too fast and I guess he hooked around another car and was speeding, that's what the father told me."
The girl was taken to Hartford Hospital, then transferred to Connecticut Children's Medical Center, where she is in serious condition, according to a hospital spokesman.
On Tuesday morning, police said investigators are working to piece together the sequence of events leading up to the girl being struck.
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Deputy Chief Donald Hull, of Canton police, said it is early in the investigation.
"It's too early. We still have a lot of unanswered questions, and we want to put more pieces together, do some more interviews," he said.
