A 2-year-old boy is still in the hospital with brain injuries after being ejected from a vehicle more than a week ago, his family said.
Juan Suarez’s great-grandmother drove him home along Hirsch Road in northeast Houston on the morning of Jan. 30.
A surveillance video obtained exclusively by Eyewitness News shows that when they reached the intersection with Laura Koppe Road, a white pickup truck ran a red light and slammed into the family’s car.
The boy’s family said he went flying into a ditch, although it’s difficult to make out in the video.
“I was like, ‘Oh, my God. Please. Just let him, let him be able to make it. Let him be able to make it,'” Michelle Hernandez, Juan’s mother, said.
Hernandez said her son was treated for brain injuries and a broken arm. He got out of the intensive care unit this week but will likely require intensive therapy before he’s able to walk again, she said.
His great-grandmother’s now home but with multiple rib and spine fractures.
In the surveillance video, you can see the truck push the family’s car into a school bus.