A driver who allegedly struck a mom and toddler had to be rescued by witnesses after he flipped his van in a botched getaway that almost killed him.
Police said Olubunmi Awoluyi, 61, was driving drunk down Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn Saturday when he plowed his minivan into two parked vehicles, CBS News reports.
He then allegedly made a U-turn, struck a 26-year-old woman and a 3-year-old girl, and sped off.
The woman had been pushing her stroller near Rockaway Parkway and Winthrop Street in the Brownsville section around 4 p.m., cops said.
The child suffered only minor injuries, according to police, but the mother was unconscious and unresponsive when first responders arrived on the scene.
Both were taken to a local hospital and were last reported to be in stable condition. They are expected to make a full recovery.
Awoluyi appeared to make it a few blocks before surveillance video seemingly caught him smashing into two parked cars on Blake Avenue, NBC reports.
Surveillance video shows the minivan speeding down the street, slamming into the side of a parked Jeep and pushing it onto the sidewalk, overturning onto the driver’s side and striking a parked pickup truck before screeching to a halt.
The minivan appeared to already have a damaged hood before it crashed into the parked vehicles.
Awoluyi was charged with DWI, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident, police said.
Cell phone video from the scene showed neighbors then working together to push the van upright and rescue the driver who was still pinned in the driver’s seat.
“[The driver] was bleeding out of his mouth. There was blood on the road. It was kinda scary watching somebody being pinned and being crushed,” Eudes James told CBS News.
“When the firefighter opened the door on the scene, that’s when the liquor bottle fell out,” witness Shanique Fox told the outlet.
Delivery driver Danny Square told News 4 he followed the driver of the minivan after he witnessed him strike the pedestrians and a car.
“He was drunk because we find in his car three bottles of open Hennessy bottles,” he told the outlet.
The driver was taken into custody after crashing his vehicle.
