A hit-and-run driver mowed down a man crossing a Brooklyn street early Saturday — just five blocks from where a 4-year-old boy was struck and killed two days earlier, police said. The unidentified victim, who is believed to be in his 30s, was in the street near the corner of Linden Blvd. and Rocka way Ave. in Brownsville around 4:10 a.m. when he was hit by a driver, cops said. The vehicle sped off without stopping. First responders found the victim crumpled in the street. He was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital but couldn’t be saved. The victim had no identification on him, police said. Cops were scouring the area for surveillance footage that could help them track down the driver and find out more about what happened. Five blocks away on Thursday, 4-year-old Zachariah Padilla was fatally hit by a Ford SUV driver outside of Brookdale University Hospital on Rockaway Parkway and Linden Blvd. The little boy was struck after breaking away from his mother, Harmonie Wright, and darting into the street shortly after 11 a.m., cops said. Witnesses said the Ford driver kept going, and cops said he has not been caught. Gardiner Anderson / New York Daily News; Courtesy of familyThe NYPD Highway Patrol investigates after 4-year-old Zachariah Padilla (inset) was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver outside Brookdale Hospital on Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn, New York City, on Thursday, March 5, 2026. (Gardiner Anderson / New York Daily News; Courtesy of family) Wright scooped up her mortally wounded child and rushed the tyke into the nearby hospital, but couldn’t be saved. “I didn’t even know I was hit,” she told reporters Friday. “I just had to get my child out. I picked him up. Blood coming out of his ears, his nose. Everywhere.” Staffers at the medical center said the boy and his mom had just left the Brookdale Urgent Care Center, located on the other side of Rockaway Parkway from the main hospital, moments before he was struck. Witnesses told police the child was running across the parkway heading east when the driver slammed into him. Standing outside her Brooklyn home on Friday, a devastated Wright struggled to understand how the driver who hit her child could be so uncaring. “He just f—ing hit my kid then he ran over him,” she said bitterly. “I lost everything!” The SUV driver hit the tot with such force that Zachariah was “knocked off his socks,” his mother said. “They messed with his brain. That’s how hard they hit him,” she said of the driver. “Not only did he hit my child, he hit me, too — and I want justice for my child.” “He was my last child!” she said, choking up. The NYPD Highway Patrol investigates after Zachariah Padilla was fatally struck by a vehicle outside Brookdale Hospital on Rockaway Parkway and Linden Boulevard in Brooklyn, New York on Thursday, March 5, 2026. (Gardiner Anderson / New York Daily News) Both Rockaway Parkway and Rockaway Ave. are considered Vision Zero Priority Corridors, with the city considering them among the most dangerous streets in Brooklyn because of the high number of crashes on them. A speed camera put at the corner of Rockaway Parkway and Linden Blvd. caught more than 3,600 people speeding in 2025, an average of 10 drivers per day, the group Transportation Alternatives said. The safe-streets group called on the city to reduce the speed limit on Rockaway Parkway to 20 mph, which it could do under Sammy’s Law, which was enacted in 2024 and named after 12-year-old Sammy Cohen Eckstein, who was killed by a driver in 2013. Transportation Alternatives Executive Director Ben Furnas called little Zachariah’s death “every parent’s nightmare.” “It was wholly preventable,” Furnas said of the crash. “New Yorkers who lost loved ones in traffic crashes fought tirelessly to pass Sammy’s Law and give New York City the power to control its own speed limit. It is a law named after a child killed by a speeding driver. And it is a law that then-Assembly member Mamdani voted for. It’s time New York City uses its power to protect New York City kids.” ...read more read less