Child Hit by Car on Hanson Place

A 12-year-old girl was struck by a car on S. Portland Avenue just as she was leaving church on Saturday night, according to eyewitness reports.

Witnesses said that she darted out of an evening church service at Seventh Day Adventist Church at Hanson Place and S. Portland Avenue at around 7:15 p.m. when a Honda Civic crashed into her.

“She just ran across the street, she didn’t look at all,” said Ryan Gibbs, 19, of East New York. “She got hit in the leg and bounced on the hood.”

The extent of the girl’s injuries is unknown, but medics on the scene roughly 20 minutes after the incident described her as “incapacitated,” and said she would be rushed to Kings County Hospital.

A spokesman for the Fire Department confirmed the incident.