Three, including minors, were injured after a car struck the entrance of a pre-school in Freehold Township, New Jersey. Horrific CCTV footage of the incident has surfaced online shows a speeding vehicle hitting two children and their mom. The vehicle was driven by a drunk woman who arrived to pick up another child.
The incident occurred on Friday at around 3 pm when the woman identified as Patrice Pisani was walking out the front door of Bloom Academy in Freehold in Monmouth County, with her two minor sons, when a woman driving a grey SUV slammed into the entrance and hit them from the side.
In a dramatic viral video, the mom can be seen pulling her child out of the way, seconds before the car smashed into a gate pillar, with the side of the car knocking Pisani's youngest son to the ground, with the tyre bouncing off his leg. The car can be seen continuing to move and hitting into the back of mom and her other son, forcing them to the ground and pinning them against a railing.
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The younger boy suffered leg injury and burns from the underside of the vehicle, Pisani told News 12. The mom suffered injuries to her back and neck and the older boy also suffered minor injuries. They were taken to a local hospital and later released.
The driver of the SUV, identified as 68-year-old Angela Arrigo, of Manalapan, was charged with driving while intoxicated, assault by auto, and endangering the welfare of a child, Freehold Police told Patch.