Woman Crashes Car, Hands Baby To Stranger And Flees: NYPD

OZONE PARK, QUEENS -- Authorities arrested a woman who crashed her car in Queens and then left her daughter behind with a bystander on Wednesday evening, police said.

Malikah George, 25, was driving a grey Honda Civic near 101st Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard when she crashed into another SUV and blew through a red light at around 6:30 p.m., police told Patch. She then lost control of her car and crashed into an iron gate outside Elizabeth Blackwell Middle School in Ozone Park.

George got out of her car and handed her 1-year-old daughter, who'd been in the backseat, to a stranger before running from the scene of the crash, cops said.

“She came out with a baby in her hands. She was screaming something. Then she handed the baby over to somebody and ran," a neighbor who witnessed the crash told the New York Post.

The little girl was taken to Jamaica Hospital for observation, where officers would eventually cuff George later that night, police said.

The young mother told ABC 7 Eyewitness News she planned to turn herself in, but wanted to see her daughter in the hospital first.

She told the news outlet she lost control of the car and crashed after the SUV she'd hit in the fender bender began chasing her through the neighborhood.

"He started to chase me, five blocks, six blocks," George told Eyewitness News. "I'm passing the red light, he's passing the red light behind me and I lost control, hit the school premises. His car is parked behind me and my daughter's in the car seat, she looks fine. I turned to a lady I didn't even know and said listen, can you hold my daughter for an hour? I'm going to go down, regardless, because I have no car insurance, no license, I'm young, I'm just trying to learn how to drive. I miss my daughter so much and I would do anything in the world to get her back. I work two jobs and I have to have a car to get to work, to get home."

George was arrested later that night in Jamaica Hospital on charges including acting in a manor injurious to a child, reckless endangerment, operating a motor vehicle without insurance, operating an unregistered vehicle and leaving the scene of an accident.

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