Update 2: VW Passat Wagon Sought in Hit-and-Run That Left Toddler Injured

Updated at 6:35 p.m. Friday

La Mesa police have narrowed the suspect vehicle in the hit-and-run that left a 2-year-old boy injured Thursday night on Fletcher Parkway.

“The investigation has shown that the suspect car is believed to be a 2006-2011 Volkswagen Passat wagon, white, with a luggage rack on top,” said police Lt. Dan Willis.  “There may be damage to the left (driver’s) front bumper area.”

The 27-month-old boy hospitalized Thursday night after being struck  on Fletcher Parkway was alone at the time, police said Friday morning.

“Reportedly he had wondered off from the area of the Buckland apartments on the north side of Fletcher Parkway,” Willis said.  “The parents were home, but [had] momentarily turned from the child.”

The apartments on Buckland Street are the Rimrock Apartments and Grossmont Terrace Apartments. It wasn’t immediately known which complex the child wandered away from, and his condition wasn’t publicly available.

Anonymous passer-bys called in the report of the accident.

“The child was transported to [Rady] Children’s Hospital with head injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening,” police said Thursday. “The vehicle that struck the child left the scene.”

The child was struck near the intersection of Trolley Court and the eastbound lanes of Fletcher Parkway a little before 7:50 p.m., police said. Those lanes were closed until 11:34 p.m. for an investigation.

NBC San Diego quoted witness Robert Olague, who was working at a nearby restaurant and heard the tires.

“That was the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” Olague was quoted as saying only days after becoming a father himself. “I saw that; it was just the worst thing I’ve ever seen. It was pretty sad.”

Willis told NBC San Diego: “That child is extremely fortunate that it wasn't much more serious an accident, or hit more directly. It could have been a tragedy all the way around, and fortunately, it looks like he will eventually recover.”

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the La Mesa Police Department at 619- 667-1400 or Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.