LUCERNE VALLEY, Calif. — Authorities on Tuesday were looking for a hit-and-run driver who killed three young girls \u2014 two of them in wheelchairs \u2014 and left a fourth with life-threatening injuries as they walked along a Southern California desert highway.<\/p>\n
Willow Sanchez, 11, Daytona Bronas, 12, and Sandra Mizer, 13, all of Lucerne Valley, were struck shortly before 10:30 p.m. Saturday as they walked on Camp Rock Road and were struck by a white Chevrolet Silverado that drifted onto the shoulder of the road and struck them from behind, the California Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred on a stretch of road in the Mojave Desert community in San Bernardino County.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy baby’s gone. I can’t have her no more,\u201d Sandra’s grandmother, Tammy Midkiff, told KNBC-TV.<\/p>\n
Natalie Cole, 14, was hospitalized in critical condition.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer leg was amputated in the accident, all her other limbs are shattered and her liver is bleeding, her kidneys are struggling,\u201d her mother, Sherrie Orndorff, told the station.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou got our of your vehicle, looked at those dead and dying girls on the ground, and you ran,” Orndoff said of the people in the truck.<\/p>\n
Orndoff, who was Willow\u2019s big sister, said the youngsters had been spending the night at her house and decided to go for a stroll.<\/p>\n
The driver and passenger in the truck stopped after the collision and used a flashlight to see who they had hit before running off without calling 911, leaving the truck, witnesses told family members, according to KNBC-TV.<\/p>\n