Feb 1, 2009 12:44 pm US/Eastern
Brooklyn Man Arrested In Hit-And-Run
2 Brothers Hospitalized After Being Struck; 4-Year-Old In Serious Condition, 16-Year-Old Stable
18-Year-Old Samuel Branch Charged With Unlicensed Driving, Leaving The Scene Of An Accident
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Two children were injured after being struck by this Mercedes in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn on Jan. 30, 2009.
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Police say an 18-year-old man driving without a license was behind the wheel when a car veered into a 4-year-old and his older brother as they walked along a Brooklyn sidewalk.
Samuel C. Branch was arrested Saturday on charges of unlicensed driving and leaving the scene of an accident. Police say he ran off Friday after the car hit a tree, jumped a curb and plowed into Dillan Jackson and his 16-year-old brother, Dwayne.
The arrest answered some of the prayers of family members of the 2 seriously injured brothers.
"It's like a little relief," uncle Jerome Matthews said.
The 1988 Mercedes was crunched up against the tree it hit on Marcy Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant early Friday evening. And next to it there was a pair of sneakers that had been knocked off one of the young victims' feet by the impact.
Police say they caught up with Branch after he went to a hospital for treatment for a leg injury. No telephone number could be found for him, and police weren't certain whether he had a lawyer.
Dillan is hospitalized in serious condition with a broken leg and a broken pelvis. Dwayne is in stable condition with a dislocated shoulder.
The boys' uncle, Jerome Matthews, said Dwayne will likely get out of the hospital tomorrow – but not Dillion, who just had surgery on his broken pelvis.
"He has pins in his legs, and a rod, and its going to take six to eight weeks for him to get better," Matthews says.
Their grandmother, Bessie Matthews, tells the Daily News they are doing pretty well.
The community at large is disgusted by the act that has left two of their own in the hospital.
"If you do something to a child, you should take control of your actions and be sorry for it instead of hitting and running," Bed-Stuy resident Naomi Ortiz said.
CBS 2's Dave Carlin contributed to this report.
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