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Immigrant Charged In Hit And Run Involving Child

POSTED: 4:30 pm EDT May 30, 2006
UPDATED: 5:24 pm EDT May 30, 2006

CONCORD, N.C. -- An immigrant has been arrested and charged in a hit and run incident involving a child who was walking to a school bus.

Immigration officials are now checking the driver's legal status and could deport her.

A parent followed the car and called police.

Officers arrested Martha Lorenzano and discovered she is not a U.S. citizen.

They say she ignored the stop arm of a school bus on Kerr Street.

Regina Sanford saw the whole thing.

"When she hit him, he flew up in the air, came down, hit her hood--it was obvious she hit him really hard," said Sanford.

The boy had leg injuries and was treated and released from the hospital.
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