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A 3-year-old girl struck by a car in the South Bronx on Monday warned her mother the vehicle was coming a split-second before being tragically killed.
Mariam Dansoko, dressed in a navy blue school uniform, lagged about 12-feet behind her mother, who was pushing a stroller holding another child as they walked across 164th St. in the crosswalk, police and witnesses said.
“Before the car hits her, she said, ‘Mommy, the car is coming.’ She was right here on my back,” recalled Mariam’s mother, Rougui Kebe, who horrifically witnessed her younger brother being killed by a minivan in 2012.
By the time Kebe, 30, turned around, the Nissan had already slammed into Mariam.
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“She was yelling, ‘Oh, my God! My baby! My baby!’ ” said Velez, 56.
“(Mariam) was breathing hard, gasping for air, in pain,” Velez added.
Emergency responders rushed Mariam to Lincoln Medical Center, but she didn’t make it there alive, Kebe said.
The mother and the child in the stroller were not injured.
It was a tragic case of déjà vu for the family and left them thinking they are cursed.
In June 2012, Kebe was watching her 4-year-old brother, Ebrahim, play when he darted into traffic in Mount Hope, less than 2 miles from Monday’s accident, and was hit by the Chrysler minivan.
Kebe was 39 weeks pregnant with Mariam — and unable to stop Ebrahim before he was struck.
“We haven’t talked about that day. It’s too much for her,” said Kebe’s brother, Mohamed Kebe.
“It’s like a curse or something. . . . I don’t know why this is happening again,” he said. “It’s crazy. I can’t believe it.”
Mariam’s family described her as a precocious and affable girl who loved “Dora the Explorer.”
The driver remained at the scene and witnesses described him as appearing distraught.
The NYPD’s highway collision investigation squad was called to the scene. No charges were filed against the driver.
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