‘I thought I would’ve lost my life’: Milwaukee woman struck by hit-and-run driver unable to walk, pleads for suspect to turn themself in

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — A Milwaukee woman says she should be dead after being struck by a hit-and-run driver. It happened on Milwaukee’s south side, near W. Forest Home Avenue and W. Lincoln Avenue on December 30 at 10:30 pm.

Two weeks later, the road to recovery for 30-year-old Yamaris Santiago-Nuñez is just beginning.

Santiago-Nuñez said after work on Dec. 30, she was picking up tacos from a food truck for her and her mother. She was told the food would be ready in five minutes, so she was trying to get into her car as she waited. She asked us to show the surveillance video in which you see a vehicle swerving at a high speed, which she estimated to be 70 mph. It hits the Yamaris, her car, and the vehicle behind her…

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