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A woman crossing a Melbourne road with her young granddaughter on the way to buy ice cream took the full force of a hit-run, leaving her hospitalised with two broken legs. Six weeks after
the crash, family and police are still waiting for the driver, a woman in a black Toyota Rav4, to come forward and on Tuesday made a public appeal. "Just own up to it. Come
forward," said the injured woman's daughter, who is also the mother of the two-year-old girl who escaped serious injury but has been "a bit traumatised". The 63-year-old
grandmother remains in hospital with broken legs, a fractured hand, and deep vein thrombosis in one leg. "(Mum) was quite lucky that my daughter was on the opposite side than the car,
so (mum) took the full impact," her daughter told reporters. The pair had been at a park and were crossing Glen Huntly Road at Glen Huntly about midday on February 20 on their way to
buy ice cream when the Rav4 turned from Booran Road and struck them at an intersection controlled by traffic lights. The driver, a Caucasian woman aged 40 to 50, at first stopped and offered
to call a doctor but then drove off. "She's obviously known that she hit an elderly person and probably saw the child as well," police Senior Constable Murray Stranger told
reporters. "She has probably panicked and got in the car and made a poor choice (to drive away)." Police have CCTV footage of the hit-run but it does not show the car's
registration plate. "People panic in different situations. We would just like her to redeem that," Sen Const Stranger said. It's possible the Rav4's headlight was smashed
upon impact which could help identify the vehicle and driver. "It is a testament of someone's character if they own up to it," the woman said in her appeal for the driver to
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