A Sunrise, Fla., firefighter is listed in stable condition at Broward General Medical Center after being struck by a car that fled the scene late Tuesday night.
Steve Grimstead was assisting with the ground transport of a victim shot at a gas station located off West Commercial Avenue and Nob Hill Road when he was struck. Firefighters were about to place the shooting victim in an air rescue helicopter.
Instead, Grimstead, 50, was airlifted to the hospital and the shooting victim was taken by ambulance.
According to investigators, Yolanda Bell was traveling westbound on the innermost passing lane of West Commercial Boulevard in her 2006 Buick Rendezvous when her driver's side rearview mirror struck Grimstead as he stepped off the median. The impact knocked him to the ground.
Several minutes later, Bell, 25, returned to the scene and allegedly told a Sunrise police officer that she was the driver who struck Grimstead.
Bell was arrested and charged with one count of leaving the scene of an accident with injuries. She was being held at the Broward Sheriff's Office main jail on $2,500 bond.
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