JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A six-year-old boy hit by a car on Friday is recovering in Wolfson Children's Hospital.
“I'm trying to be brave and strong for him. Because he definitely seems like he's a little stronger than I am at this point," the boy's mother, Crystal Quinones, said.
Quinones said her child broke his leg and still needs additional surgery. She added he would be in a wheelchair for weeks.
She said her 14-year-old daughter was watching her son ride a skateboard down the driveway and into Looking Glass Lane.
“Literally seconds before I went out there, my daughter had ran in the house and said that my son was hit by a car,” she said.
Quinones rushed to her son.
“My son was visibly bleeding, torn clothing. [I] Picked his little body up, I could feel the one leg was just limp," Quinones said. “I'm thankful that he is alive because in the moment that it happened, I felt that I have lost him.”
Quinones doesn’t blame the driver who hit her son and added the driver stopped after hitting him.
“I should have been out there. But I really think that the if the speed bumps had been there, she would have probably been going quite a bit slower."
Quinones and other people said cars in their neighborhood drive too fast.
“Changing some of the speed limits would be important, especially when there's a lot of children that live in the neighborhood."
Quinones said her son has special needs and added there are other special needs kids in the neighborhood.
She said she would like a sign put up warning drivers as they ride through her neighborhood.