Chicago police are looking for the driver who hit an officer and at least two pedestrians during a traffic stop in River North last night.
A sergeant had pulled over a red Hyundai at Grand and State and asked the driver to get out, police say, but he refused and drove off with his doors open. It was around 8 p.m. and a surveillance video shows the car hit the sergeant, plus a woman and a 5-year-old girl in the busy crosswalk.
Witness China Robinson tells CBS 2 she heard screeching tires and saw the woman go flying.
"All I hear is a screech. And I turn around behind me and the officer is like, they are all trying to get to the other officer. It was weird. He was just laying there screaming, like whirling around in pain and then I just see a lady fly in the air because he hit the lady so hard," she said.
Police say all three were taken to the hospital with non life threatening injuries. The website CWB Chicago reports the driver left his license at the scene, so police know who they’re looking for. The car was found – empty - several blocks away.
The 5-year-old girl and woman were taken to the hospital in good condition and police say the sergeant’s injuries are non-life threatening.