Heroic moment, grandmother pushes seven-year-old child out of the way of a speeding driver: “Nana saved me”

A grandmother heroically saved her seven-year-old granddaughter from a speeding car in Massachusetts by pushing her out of the way.

Louise Ward, 69, from Stoneham, and her granddaughter Riley were crossing the street around 8.45pm on Saturday with the family dog ​​when she noticed a car heading towards them.

Screaming, she pushed the little girl and dog to safety before being struck by the silver car, which fled the scene, according to WCVB.

“She’s taking a nighttime walk with her granddaughter and their dog and someone knocks them over on the sidewalk and doesn’t care,” her daughter, Erin Dirks, told WCVB.

“I heard the audio recording of the incident. You know you hit someone.

Surveillance footage shows the moment the grandmother and granddaughter were quickly crossing the road as the silver car came speeding toward them, hitting Ward in the crosswalk.

Louise Ward, 69, from Stoneham, and her granddaughter Riley were crossing the street around 8.45pm on Saturday with the family dog ​​when she noticed a car heading towards them. Screaming, she pushed the little girl and the dog to safety

Surveillance footage shows the moment the grandmother and granddaughter were quickly crossing the road as the silver car came speeding toward them, hitting Ward in the crosswalk. Riley now thanks her grandmother for saving her life and that of the dog.

Riley now thanks her grandmother for saving her life and that of the dog.

“She pushed me so I could get back to where cars couldn’t hit me on the way,” she told WCVB. “I wasn’t hit, but my grandmother was.”

After the hit-and-run, Riley began screaming and raising her hands for help until someone “stopped and helped me,” she told the outlet.

Ward was taken to the hospital with multiple bone fractures, but will make a full recovery.

Dirks is now encouraging anyone with information about the driver to come forward or turn themselves in.

“Look within, really think and take the opportunity to do the right thing now. Surrender. You are going to be found. There are images everywhere,” she told WCVB.

Detective Sergeant Chris Dalis told DailyMail.com that he is “still reviewing video from surrounding streets/houses and businesses but has had no luck so far” and is not there is “unfortunately no new information”.