CHILD STRUCK BY CAR

A fourteen-year-old pedestrian is in critical condition--in traumatic cardiac arrest--after a car struck him in a possible hit-and-run. The boy was crossing E. 7th Street at the intersection of Caton Avenue at about 5:00 p.m. today. Three ambulances responded. He was taken to Maimonides Medical Center. NYPD's Collision Investigation Squad will investigate.