Driver Flees Cops, Hits Woman Pushing Dog In Baby Carriage

Authorities have arrested a Rahway motorist who they say is responsible for running down a 79-year-old woman while fleeing Newark police in his Nissan Sentra on Thursday.

The woman was pushing her dog in a baby carriage on Clifton Avenue near Branch Brook Park around 11:47 a.m., when Nathaniel Young, 20, crashed into a Mercury Sable and caromed into her at a “high rate of speed,” according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

Emergency responders transported the woman to the hospital, allowing her uninjured dog to ride along in the ambulance beside her, prosecutors said.

The driver and passenger of the Sable were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Prosecutors have charged Young with eluding police, assault with a vehicle, and knowingly leaving the scene of an accident where there was serious bodily injury.

He is being held at the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark on $100,000 bail.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Crash Investigation Unit and the Professional Standards Bureau are conducting an ongoing investigation.