THIS FROM NEW YORK 1:

Police have arrested a woman after they say she hit and killed a 5-year-old boy in Brooklyn Wednesday.

According to police, Bertilde Gabriel tried to leave the scene after her SUV jumped the curb and collided with a family walking down Flatbush Avenue near Glenwood Road.

The boy, Christopher Frombaum, died at the scene. His 24-year-old mother Rachel Dorce is in critical condition. Two other children, 6-year-old Aldeline and 8-year-old Joshua, are also in the hospital.

Witnesses say the Green Ford Explorer collided with another SUV before jumping the sidewalk.

"A green SUV made an illegal turn over the yellow line," said one onlooker. "It hit the black SUV, and came onto the sidewalk and mowed over the whole family from the back. They never saw it coming."

Gabriel’s husband said she has had heart problems and has blacked out three times, the most recent being right before she hit the family.

"She tried to control it herself," said her husband. "After that, she didn’t know anything."

Gabriel was hospitalized with chest pains but is now in police custody. Police at the 70th precinct charged her with criminally negligent homicide.