A 3-year-old girl was trailing behind her mother by roughly 12 feet when she was fatally mowed down while crossing a South Bronx intersection, cops said Tuesday.
Surveillance video captured the moment a Nissan Altima slammed into little Mariam Dansoko as she and her mother were crossing 164th St. near Gerard Ave. against the red light Monday morning, cops said.
“Mommy, the car is coming,” Mariam screamed out before she was struck, according to her mother Rougui Kebe, 30.
The mortally-wounded pre-schooler, still clad in her navy blue school uniform, was rushed to Lincoln Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.
Kebe, who was pushing a stroller carrying another child, was uninjured. The other child was also not hurt.
The 21-year-old driver remained at the scene near Yankee Stadium and was not charged. Kebe also was not charged.
“I really want to talk to him and know where he was turning … if he didn’t see us?” Mariam’s distraught mom said Tuesday as her family was still finalizing funeral arrangements.
“I want to tell him my little daughter is gone. I cannot do nothing. Only God knows.”
Mariam’s uncle said the driver should have yielded no matter where the pedestrians were walking.
“Even if she was walking against the light, why not stop?” said Mohamed Kebe, 28. “You don’t just run people over. In this city, drivers don’t respect pedestrians. They just want to speed up around people walking.”
The accident marked the second time Kebe witnessed a family member get killed on the road.
In June 2012, Kebe was watching her 4-year-old brother, Ebrahim, when he darted into traffic in Mount Hope — running into the path of a Chrysler minivan.
Kebe was 39 weeks pregnant with Mariam — and unable to stop Ebrahim before he was struck.
