After a 9-year-old girl was seriously injured when a car careened across her front yard, hit her and then hit the house, her parents hope the public can help identify the driver.
Security camera video shows LaDerihanna Holmes playing with a friend in the front yard of her house in Lithonia, about 20 miles east of Atlanta, when the driver hit a stop sign on a corner across the street, kept going across the girl’s front yard and hit her as she tried to get out of the way.
The girl’s parents were upstairs inside the house when the crash happened just before 7 p.m. Friday. Charlette Bolton, LaDerihanna’s mother, said in a phone interview Monday that the sound was deafening and it felt like an earthquake when the black sedan hit the house.
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