An Eastern Ontario mother who was out walking when a vehicle hit her infant daughter’s stroller, wants the driver to turn himself in to authorities.

The incident happened in Kemptville, Ont., near Ottawa on Tuesday. Jennifer Lowe was walking home from the post office with her four-month-old daughter Millie in a car seat on the stroller. Lowe says she was walking on the sidewalk when, “out of nowhere,” they were struck by a car leaving a parking lot. The force of the impact was so powerful, it knocked the baby’s car seat off the stroller. Millie wasn’t hurt.

“My daughter went flying right into the middle of the road in her car seat,” Lowe said in an interview with CTV Ottawa. “The stroller fell over, I picked it up, I ran to get my daughter and I took her out of the car seat, made sure she was OK and of course, bawled my eyes out.”

The worst part of the ordeal, says Lowe, isn’t just that her daughter’s stroller was struck, but that the motorist allegedly drove around them and took off.

“He looked at us, and then he backed up and left, he didn’t even get out to see if we were OK,” Lowe said.

Ontario Provincial Police confirmed to CTV Ottawa that they are investigating the incident, but have a limited description of the suspect. Police say he is white with shaggy brown hair. He was wearing a Blue Jays hat and driving a black vehicle.

Police are hoping the man will turn himself in.

“I don’t know what was going on … maybe he panicked too,” Lowe said. “But at the same time you think he would’ve stopped to see if we were OK, because, I mean, she’s an infant.”

A passerby did stop to offer help, Lowe said.

None of the surveillance cameras at nearby businesses were pointed at the area where the alleged hit-and-run occurred.

While police investigate, Lowe has a message for the driver: “You almost hurt my daughter and me. I don’t know what I’d do if I lost my daughter, she’s my whole world and what you have done, is the most terrible thing, so please turn yourself in.”

Police wouldn’t comment on specific charges the driver may face, but a charge such as failing to remain at the scene of a collision could apply. Police are asking anyone with information to call the Kemptville detachment of the OPP or place an anonymous call with Crime Stoppers.

With a report by CTV Ottawa’s Katie Griffin