Mom Pleads for Help after Near-Fatal Hit & Run

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Updated: 3/11/2012 3:10 pm
MEMPHIS, TN (abc24.com) - Two young kids ejected, and a young mother desperate for answers. The question: Who would leave her and these children on the side of the road to die?

"All four of us really could have just lost our lives," said Kiera Reynolds.

Reynolds, her 3-year-old daughter, and her two young nephews were heading home from daycare when she says a maroon Chevy Impala raced up along side her.

It happened March 1 on Holmes Road near the intersection of Tradeport Drive around 7 p.m.

"When I was passing him, he hit me real hard, and I hit the guardrail, and I blanked out after that," she said.

Reynolds' daughter and one nephew were ejected.

"I just thank God for just saying we made it out of this because just look at it," she said.

Reynolds' 2000 Kia Sportage now sits outside her father's home. It is a tangled mess of metal, discharged airbags, and broken axles.

"This, right here, gave me an eye opening to life, because my second chance, really, how it looks, is just, I don't know," said Reynolds.

Police are looking for a maroon Chevy Impala in connection with the wreck. They say it was being driven by a black male around 25-30 years old at the time of the hit & run accident.

Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers at (901) 528-CASH (2274).
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Joseph - 3/12/2012 10:14 AM
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I could tell you EXACTLY who would leave you and your kids on the side of the road to die.

UGLYBOB82 - 3/12/2012 9:06 AM
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the guy that hit her is a scumbag, but if its found out those children werent restrained, I hope she gets charged too! If youre going to drive around without your kids in seat belts in THIS CITY, with this amount of UNINSURED AND UNLICENSED DRIVERS...then you should be charged with child endangerment. Yes, the guy that hit her was in the wrong. But if you hadnt been so lazy in the first place, these kids would be at home, not in the hospital. You cant go blaming society for youre own stupidity.

Golden Taint - 3/12/2012 9:04 AM
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I agree with anothervoice. I have a strong feeling that both of these drivers are the same types of reckless and careless fools that I dodge on a daily basis while driving. I'd bet a welfare check that she was talking on the phone when it happened.

anothervoice - 3/12/2012 8:44 AM
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I take it the young children were not wearing a seat belt!!
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