A motorist struck two young children Monday as daycare workers tried to shepherd them across Howard Avenue.
The collision occurred around 11:30 a.m. at Howard and First Street.
The children sought to cross the street with the daycare workers when the driver hit them, according to police spokesman Officer David Hartman. Conscious and alert, they went to Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
Update: On Tuesday Hartman reported that police have issued the driver, a 28-year-old New Haven woman, an infraction for failure to grant a pedestrian the right of way. “This case could be reopened if the children’s conditions change. They are recovering from non-life threatening injuries,” Hartman wrote in a release.
Hartman also offered addition info about the incident: “Daycare workers had tried stopping traffic to allow the children in their care to cross Howard Avenue. The children were crossing together in what a witness referred to as a ‘human chain.’ Two children, a 3‑year-old boy from Bridgeport and 2‑year-old boy from Milford, were struck and run over by a motorist as they tried to cross the avenue.”
Good grief; I hope those children are okay.
Well, I'm glad that the "police investigating the incident have not determined fault yet in the collision." No one would want them to jump to conclusions about a driver hitting a couple of little kids accompanied by adults in the bright summer sunshine, literally at high-f@#$ing noon.
My limited imagination is having trouble hypothesizing a scenario in which this <i>isn't</i> the driver's fault, but what do I know?
Perhaps it's the fault of the anti-car, "take back New Haven" fanatics?