INDIANAPOLIS — A security camera captured the moment a car was sent rolling after being hit by another car at Boulevard Place and 29th Street in Indianapolis Saturday.
In that car was a family of four, including a 4-month-old baby boy and his 6-year-old sister.
"The only thing in my head was, 'Get the kids out of the car,'" said Veronica Blythe, the mother of the two kids.
The family crawled through the car's sunroof one by one as it filled with smoke before bursting into flames.
The driver of the black Jeep, who they said caused the crash, kept driving and never came back.
"I don't know how they can walk around and go about their day-to-day life knowing what they did to us and what could have happened. They don't know that we're OK. They were gone before any of us got out of the car," Blythe said.
The bruise on Blythe's leg and burn marks on her stomach from the seat belt is the extent of her injuries, she said. Her two kids were unharmed.
"We could care less about the car, as long as all of our family was able to go home that night and just hang out at home like it was any other night," Blythe said.
According to IMPD, there have been 4,813 hit-and-run crashes so far this year involving both other vehicles and people. The department said the number this year is already higher than last year's at 4,754.
There were 21 fatalities around this time last year, compared to the 13 so far this year.