A deaf 5-year-old boy visiting NYC was hit by a cab in Brooklyn Saturday afternoon—and it happened right in front of his also deaf parents. Timothy Keith and his parents, who were visiting from DC, were going to see the Brooklyn Bridge when Timothy darted between parked cars onto Hicks Street in Cobble Hill, and a yellow SUV cab hit him. “I was with my son. The(n) he walk to road. I say NO to him,” wrote mother Eva Keith in an interview with the Daily News. “I saw taxi yellow so fast. Driver hit my son but my son can’t hear.”
The driver remained at the scene: “There was no time. He stepped out and I hit the brake,” he told the Post. Timothy, who suffered brain damage, was treated at Long Island College Hospital and later transferred to University Hospital of Brooklyn-SUNY Downstate Medical Center. The parents’ friend, Brian Walters, wrote the News that he wasn’t sure the boy would make it. Hospital workers at Long Island were also extremely upset: “The nurses are all crying...I’m just devastated for the family and for that child."
