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Search Underway For Off-Road Hit-And-Run Driver Who Injures 3-Year-Old Redlands Girl

REDLANDS (CBSLA.com) — A search was underway for a hit-and-run off-road driver who seriously injured a three-year-old Redlands girl.

It was a peaceful weekend at the Dumont Dunes, about 30 miles north of Baker, that took an unimaginable turn for the Bostwick family a week ago.

Reagan and her twin brother were sledding on a sand dune when a dune buggy struck her and took off.

"She got hit, and all I can see was her little body going kind of backwards," the girl's father Troy Bostwick recalled. "I just remember my daughter being taken out of my arms by my sister-in-law, and I did not know. I was in shock at that point."

"She was choking on her blood, and I didn't know where it was coming from. I was so upset," the girl's mother Marci Bostwick said.

With blood covering her shirt and a bandage on her head, Reagan was airlifted to a hospital in Las Vegas.

Her parents said the four-inch gash on their daughter's forehead was so deep it exposed her skull.

But one week later, Reagan was back in her Redlands home and making remarkable recovery.

She still has several stitches on her forehead and two black eyes.

The girl's parents were upset that the driver did not bother to stop and was still on the loose. "I'm getting angry. I'm sorry I feel upset. I'm getting angry at this man," the girl's mother wept.

"Just come forward dude. Man up and just be a good person," the girl's father said.

The California Highway Patrol was handling the case and did not respond to a request for information about the driver.

If you would like to help Reagan with her medical expense, click here on her Gofundme account.

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