PORTSMOUTH, Va. — A 31-year-old woman is behind bars after police say she struck a 5-year-old boy with her car and took off.
Police said the child had serious injuries after a hit-and-run incident in Portsmouth on Sunday. According to the Portsmouth Police Department, the accident happened in the 200 block of Avondale Road around 5 p.m.
Police said that after she hit the boy and fled the scene, Christina Glover crashed her car again in Chesapeake.
Glover is currently charged with “Hit and Run Resulting in Injury” and “Driving While [License] Suspended or Revoked.”
Although police have not said if speed played a role in the hit-and-run, neighbors in that area say the incident is no surprise because speeding is a big problem.
“Well, we knew it was going to happen sooner or later,” said Reba Franklin, who told 13News Now she has lived on Avondale Road for more than 15 years. “They do 75 [miles per hour] because they start from that corner on Bunche [Boulevard] all the way around.”
More than one resident on Avondale Road called the street a “race track.”
There are no speed limit signs or speed bumps along the stretch of Avondale Road where the boy was hit. Franklin said she wants to see that change.
“I would like for them to put a speed bump and a speed sign... that’s all we need, is a speed sign and a speed bump,” she said. “You just keep going like it’s nothing. But if it was your kid, you’d be screaming bloody Mary.”