BROCKTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A Brockton mother and her 6-year-old daughter were injured Wednesday morning when a car suddenly slammed into their apartment.
“I am thankful that my daughter is alive, but now I have to deal with pain. I am a single mother and I can’t go to work,” Stephanie Prince said. “My daughter can’t go to school and now she’s going to have to study extra.”
Nala Prince was getting ready for school with her mother when a sedan struck their home on Colonel Bell Drive around 9:30 a.m., leaving her pinned against a brick wall.
“If the car came a little bit closer, it would have killed her,” the girl’s grandfather said. “All I saw is my grand baby pinned between the car and the building.”
Prince, 29, says the driver seemed apologetic but may have been trying to leave the scene of the crash.
“She had somewhat of a heart. She got on her knees and pretended to pray,” Prince said. “The fact that she got in the car and I saw the reverse lights. That’s what bugs me.”
Prince was taken to a Brockton hospital with a pelvic injury. Nala was flown to Mass. General Hospital in Boston with a punctured lung and broken ribs.
A Good Samaritan, alerted by the girl’s screams, was able pull her out from between the car and wall.
“She went in like a hero and carried my daughter,” Prince said. “I couldn’t because I was in shock and in pain.”
The unidentified driver was in the car with an infant when she accidentally hit the gas after someone beeped at her. Her husband told 7News that she was unlicensed, but did have a driver’s permit.
Authorities say the woman will summonsed to court for driving without a license and a marked lanes violation.
Young Nala is recovering in the hospital at this time.
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