A 5-year-old girl from North Adams was struck while trying to cross Main Street on Tuesday afternoon, and the driver kept going.
Michigan State Police are asking anyone who saw the crash, or knows the vehicle, to come forward. MLive reported that troopers were called at about 4:20 p.m. on Nov. 10 to the 200 block of East Main Street near Knapp Street, in Hillsdale County.
What Happened on Main Street
The girl was crossing Main Street when a passing vehicle hit her. The driver did not stop.
A passerby found her at the scene and took her home. She suffered a broken ankle, along with cuts and bruises. Police have not released her name, and nothing in the public account describes her condition after those injuries.
Troopers have not identified the vehicle’s make, color or direction of travel. The investigation is still aimed at finding that vehicle, not at a named suspect.
How to Reach Investigators
As of Wednesday, troopers were still gathering evidence. People with information can call the Michigan State Police Jackson Post at 517-780-4580.
That post is handling the North Adams appeal. A tip about a different crash belongs with a different post, and mixing the two will not help either case.
A Separate Appeal in Oakland County
State police are also looking for a driver in an unrelated hit-and-run in Royal Oak Township. WWJ Newsradio reported that a boy believed to be about 6 to 10 years old was struck at about 11 p.m. on westbound Eight Mile Road, east of Wyoming Avenue. Police said that driver fled north on Eight Mile.
Witnesses to that crash can call the Metro North Post at 248-584-5740. The two appeals share a method — a child struck, a driver gone — and nothing else that has been established. No vehicle description ties them together.
What the Statewide Numbers Show
None of the following figures explain Tuesday’s crash. They do show how often pedestrians, including children, are hurt on Michigan roads.
A state traffic-crash analysis found pedestrian-involved crashes rose every year from 1,682 in 2020 to 2,131 in 2024. Over those five years, crashes involving pedestrians were 0.69% of all crashes and 16.7% of fatal crashes. Dark conditions, lighted or unlighted, were reported in 71.4% of the fatal pedestrian crashes in that span. Tuesday’s call came at 4:20 p.m., so that lighting pattern is not a description of this scene.
In nonfatal pedestrian crashes from 2020 through 2024, crossing at an intersection was the most common recorded action beforehand, at 42.0%. Alcohol and/or drugs were reported as a factor in 11.1% of pedestrian-involved crashes, against 3.7% of crashes involving only motor vehicles. Investigators have not said either finding applies on East Main Street.
A separate 2024 child-injury report counted 4,293 children ages 0 to 14 injured in motor vehicle crashes statewide. Nine children in that age group were killed as pedestrians. Children ages 0 to 14 accounted for 215 pedestrian injuries, 11.9% of all pedestrian injuries that year.
For the North Adams crash, the next concrete step is still a phone call to the Jackson Post at 517-780-4580.
