Driver Fled New Years Accident That Hospitalized Jersey City Teen, Police Say

HUDSON COUNTY, NJ – A Jersey City resident has been charged in a hit-and-run that sent a teen pedestrian to the hospital on New Year's Day, prosecutors say.

Matthew Small, 28, has been charged with knowingly leaving the scene of a motor vehicle collision resulting in serious bodily injury and assault by auto, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said Friday.

Prosecutors say that around 3 a.m. on New Year's Day, a car hit a 19-year-old woman who was walking near Communipaw and Marcy avenues.

The woman was found with a "serious upper body injury," prosecutors say. The vehicle that struck her had left.

The woman was taken to Jersey City Medical Center for treatment.

Prosecutors said that Small was arrested Thursday at the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office in Secaucus and released to await a court appearance on Jan. 30. He was also charged with endangering an injured victim, prosecutors said.