Victim In Crown Heights Hit And Run 'Permanently Disabled': Report

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Since the Aug. 14 hit and run, the driver of the car had kept running — until police announced an arrest this week.

But the victim, Brooklyn architect Mimi Silver Liebenberg, 37, has had to deal with what her family calls a "nightmare that won't end," according to the New York Daily News.

Liebenberg suffered extreme brain damage in the crash and now requires full-time in-patient care, and her family has had to fight insurance companies who are looking to end her coverage, they told the Daily News.

Clossie Spencer was arrested Wednesday for running over Liebenberg as police claim he drove in reverse down Pacific Street near the Kingsboro Houses in Crown Heights.

According to surveillance footage, reports the Daily News, Spencer exited his car for a moment to observed the seriously injured architect before fleeing the scene.

After immediate treatment in Brooklyn, Liebenberg's family discovered she had suffered massive brain trauma and had lost the ability to speak, walk by herself and had lost nearly all capacity for short-term memory, according to the Daily News.

Liebenberg was forced to transfer from multiple facilities and is now residing in Virginia, where her family works around the clock to ensure her health insurance will continue to cover her constant in-patient care, reports the Daily News.

"They don't think it's medically necessary, that’s their excuse," sister Creecy Richardson-Creef told the Daily News. "She's treated as less than human."

Read the rest of the story at the New York Daily News.