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Pregnant victim in hit-and-run pleads for information in crash

TARENTUM, Pa. — Police are searching for a driver involved in a hit-and-run in Tarentum that left a pregnant woman in a flipped car in a ditch last week.

The driver of the SUV crashed into Bernadette Kozlowski's vehicle on Route 28 near the Tarentum exit, near Bakerstown Road Bridge, on Thursday.

Only Channel 11 talked with Kozlowski as she recalls being left with scrapes, bruises and aches after her car flipped over.

"I remember sitting on the roof of my car crying," she said. "I couldn't believe I just went through that."

Kozlowski was driving to work that morning when the SUV struck her her vehicle, running her off the road and sending her car flipping down a hill.

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Police say the driver of the SUV took off, leaving Kozlowski helpless. Several other drivers stopped.

"I see the line of cars and I say, 'Where's the white SUV?'" she said. "And the one lady said, 'Oh honey, he's gone, he left.'"

Newly pregnant, Kozlowski suffered only bumps and bruises but quickly remembered her baby.

"So it was a little bit later ... 'Oh wait, I'm pregnant -- I should really make sure the baby is OK,'" she said.

Both she and the baby are fine, but Kozlowski hopes someone will help police track down the driver who hit her.

"If you know that your friend did it and you're sitting not saying anything, shame on you," she said.