Child In Serious Condition After Being Hit In Sunset Park

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — A 7-year-old boy is in serious condition, but likely will survive, after he was hit by a car in Sunset Park, FDNY officials said.

Emergency responders were called to 452 56th Street around 3:30 p.m. for reports that a person had been struck by a car. The person hit was a 7-year-old boy who was crossing the street to get to his grandmother's house, the boy's father told the Daily News.

“They were crossing the street, my ex and the two kids. The guy came across and he clipped my son, and he flew up in the air,” Steven Sanfilippo said. “They just took him from critical to stable…. They’re working on him now, the surgical team.”

The boy, also named Steven Sanfilippo, had a broken leg and massive gash across his head from the crash, his father said.

The driver who hit him, Ceasar Lopez of Brooklyn, has been charged with unlicensed driving and failure to yield, the News reports.

This is at least the third serious crash in the neighborhood this year, though both of the other crashes on busier 3rd Avenue rather than a side street. In one, 27-year-old Fernando Trejo died in a hit-and-run near 52nd Street and in another, 26-year-old Hugo Garcia died after he was riding his bicycle to work.

Garcia hit the open door of a parked taxi cab near 28th Street and was thrown into the roadway, where he was hit by another car.

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