Davie PD Release Image Of Car Involved In Deadly Hit & Run

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DAVIE (CBSMiami) -- A bittersweet tragedy has now bonded two families together forever.

Emma Kelsoe, 80, was killed by a hit-and-run driver outside her Davie home. Vicki McCall was nearly killed.

"Emma and I were standing there just talking as neighbor's do," said McCall. "The next thing I knew, she said something about a car. I turned, I looked, I saw a dark-colored car with headlights. That is it."

In her final moment, Kelsoe pushed McCall out of the way, saving her neighbor's life. The car was captured on Emma's home security camera.

"Next thing I knew, I was on the ground," McCall remembered. "I had the wind knocked out of me. I could not speak, breath, and I was trying to yell for help and I wasn't able to do it for a short time."

Davie Police enhanced the video hoping someone will recognize it.

Both families joined the department as they try to get someone to come forward with information about the driver.

Investigators believe it was a man in his 50's with a woman passenger. Clutching a picture of her mother, Sue Kolcz begs for someone to speak up. She said she believes it was an accident.

"The sooner you turn yourself in, the sooner the family can begin the process of forgiving you," said Kolcz. "The longer you wait, the longer you make us suffer, the more difficult it will be to forgive you."

Those who knew her remembered Emma as a woman who loved to dance. For her family, it's hard to accept that the lively, fun loving woman is gone. It's harder to accept that someone hit and her just left her to die.

"Turn yourself in," said Sara Rivera, her granddaughter. "It's not fair what you have done to our family."

The Crime Stoppers reward for information on this crash has been raised to $10,000. Anyone with information can contact them and leave an anonymous tip at (954) 493-TIPS.