The horrific moment a 'teen' driver slams into a nine-year-old girl who was playing in her front yard before fleeing the scene

A 'teenage' driver plowed into a nine-year-old girl who was playing in her front yard before fleeing the horrific scene.
LaDerihanna Holmes was outside her home in Lithonia, Georgia with another girl around 7pm on Friday when the car careered straight toward them. 
Distressing video shows the second girl running off in one direction after looking back and seeing the oncoming vehicle. 
LaDerihanna runs in the other direction, but the black sedan blows past a stop sign and jumps the curb before running her over and slamming into her home. 
Surveillance footage captured one of the two suspects fleeing from the scene, exiting from the car's passenger side and running across the front lawn as LaDerihanna's family rushed over to help her.
LaDerihanna was taken to the hospital in critical condition. She sustained a skull fracture with laceration and a broken pelvic bone in three places, according to the family's GoFundMe page.  
Her right heart valve was also leaking. Chris Stewart's, the family's lawyer, said it is a miracle she survived. 
'There is no explanation on how my client is alive,' he wrote on social media. 'I sat with her and can't believe me eyes. Though her road to health will be long, she's alive.' 
The other girl who was playing in the front lawn with LaDerihanna was not injured. 
LaDerihanna's family are now sharing the security footage, hoping that the driver will come forward.  
Authorities said that the owner of the vehicle told investigators she was at work at the time of the crash and had given the car to her boyfriend. 
Stewart said the boyfriend is believed to be in his thirties and that the two suspects who fled from the scene were both teenagers. 
'Those were teenagers that were in that vehicle, so we have to learn what happened and how they got a hold of that car,' he told ABC News
Charlette Bolton, LaDerihanna's mother, has since issued a plea directly to the driver. 
'You know what you did. You didn't try to help my baby,' she said. 'You almost killed my baby and I hope you do the right thing and turn yourself in.' 
Bolton said she is trying to stay 'strong' for her daughter. 
'I just want everybody to pray for LaDerihanna,' she said. 'The community loves her, her school loves her, her friends love her. I just want the people involved to be caught.' 
'She's strong, and I know she'll bounce back from this. It's just going to take awhile.' 
Stewart said footage of the horrific crash is proof that miracles do exist. 
'I was shocked,' he said. 'I deal with wrongful death all the time, and I cannot believe she survived it. When I went to see her in the room, she does not have a mark on her face.' 
'The video is really hard to watch, but she survived somehow. You gotta believe in God after seeing this.' 
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