CAUGHT ON TAPE: Hit and run sends girl to hospital

4:40 PM, Feb 20, 2012   |    comments
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WCAU) - Philadelphia police have released surveillance video of a hit-and-run that sent a young girl to the hospital.

Last Tuesday, 9-year-old Aijahanae Johnson was riding her bike near her home.

As she tried to cross the street, she was struck by a car which quickly left the scene.

A witness drove after the hit-and-run vehicle but was unable to stop it.

Johnson suffered non-life threatening injuries to her body and forehead.

She continues to recover.

Police say the hit-and-run vehicle was a dark-blue Cadillac with the letters "HTL" on a Pennsylvania license plate.

The driver appeared to be a woman in her 20s wearing a purple scarf, according to investigators.

WCAU