Mother, four children hospitalized after Brooklyn hit-and-run

NEW YORK - A mother and her four children were hospitalized after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in Brooklyn on Wednesday.

The incident happened just before 5 p.m. near Avenue J and East 32nd Street in the Flatlands neighborhood when police tried to pull over a white Mercedes-Benz for a traffic stop.

The driver of the car then hit the gas, taking off down Avenue J just as a school bus had dropped the children off, plowing into the family. The force of the impact sent the mother and her 5-year-old daughter under the bus.

The Mercedes then fled the scene of the accident.

All five victims have been hospitalized, but are said to be in stable condition.

Police sources told FOX 5 NY that the driver ditched the car roughly a mile away on Glenwood and 24th Street. Authorities say they are looking for a woman in a black hoodie.

"I don't know how you're going to sleep tonight after you did that," a neighbor told FOX 5 NY.