Drivers who leave the scene of crashes are often caught on surveillance video, leading to NYPD investigations, and, in some cases, arrests.

But Staten Island motorists have not been deterred from taking off, judging by the police and civilian videos provided to the Advance.

Here is a look at some of the serious hit-and-run incidents:

Horrific hit-and-run caught on video

Police are asking for the public's help identifying a car and its driver connected to a Huguenot hit-and-run that occurred Wednesday.

Video footage near where the incident occurred on the 800 block of Huguenot Avenue shows a dark-colored, four-door sedan slam into a 55-year-old woman crossing the street from east to west around 10:48 p.m., according to police.

The driver proceeded to put the car in reverse, and fled northbound on Huguenot Avenue, according to a written statement released by the NYPD's Deputy Commissioner of Public Information.

Police said EMS transported the female victim to Staten Island University Hospital in Prince's Bay with pain and bruising to her back and left leg.

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Motorcycle rider suffered severe pelvic injury in hit-and-run

Last August, Frank Morse, 49, of Westerleigh, was on his Honda bike and stopped at a red light when he was rear-ended by a silver, four-door sedan near Victory Boulevard and Little Clove Road in Sunnyside, according to an NYPD spokeswoman.

The driver, believed to be a female in her 30s, then fled the scene, police said.

The victim was conscious and in pain when he was transported to Richmond University Medical Center in West Brighton, police said.

Morse's sister, Julianne Siciliano, said he was catapulted off the bike and suffered an "open book" pelvic injury. She said he snapped, sprained, and tore ligaments in his pelvic area -- hence, the pelvis opens like a book -- and also had a dislocated shoulder.

Morse, a city Sanitation worker who appeared in the department's 2016 calendar, underwent a nine-hour emergency surgery to insert screws and plates at St. Joseph's Hospital in New Jersey.

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Victim confronts young driver in court

In April, the victim of the harrowing hit-and-run in Sunnyside told the young driver who fled the scene he remains undaunted and determined to press on despite his terrible injuries.

"I hope one day you can feel the severity of what you have done," Morse told Ana Angulo, 21, at Angulo's sentencing for leaving an incident scene without reporting. "Since Aug. 6, I have been fighting for my life."

Angulo, a dark-haired College of Staten Island student, stood silently at the defense table beside her lawyer Ralph J. Porzio.

She was sentenced to five years' probation, a $1,000 fine and a one-year license revocation.

Police said Morse, of Westerleigh, was stopped at a light on his Honda motorcycle on Victory Boulevard at Little Clove Road, when a sedan crashed into him from the rear around 8:24 p.m. on Aug. 6, 2017.

The driver didn't exit the four-door auto, and it continued eastbound along Victory, toward Tompkinsville, police said.

In a telephone interview from his hospital bed about a week later, Morse said he remembered hearing a loud motor noise coming from behind him while he was stopped at the red light. He looked down at the mirror on his motorcycle, and the next thing he knew the car was on top of him, he said.

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Driver still sought in fatal incident

Police said Wednesday there have been no arrests in the fatal hit-and-run in Tompkinsville on June 29.

A 42-year-old woman was struck and killed at about 9:50 p.m. near Bay and Grant streets, while standing in the designated pedestrian area in the center median, according to an NYPD spokesman.

The unidentified driver was traveling southbound on Bay Street at a high rate of speed when they attempted to pass an uninvolved vehicle, then, lost control of their own vehicle, police said.

Heriberta Ramirez, of Stapleton, suffered severe body trauma as she was thrown almost 100 feet and landed underneath a parked car, while the driver reportedly fled southbound on Bay Street before making a right on Clinton Street, police said.

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Woman arrested in the Grasmere hit-and-run caught on video

Last August, police arrested and charged a New Brighton woman in connection to a brutal hit-and-run in Grasmere.

Beatrice Tchoungoua, 22, was the driver of the black two-door Honda Accord that was caught on video rolling over a 62-year-old woman near the intersection of Hylan Boulevard and Clove Road on the morning of July 14, police allege.

She was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to yield at a stop sign.

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Woman admits to leaving scene in Clove Rd. hit-and-run caught on video

In March, Tchoungoua pleaded guilty to felony and misdemeanor charges of leaving the scene.

In line with her plea agreement, Tchoungoua performed 175 hours of community service and completed a defensive-driving course.

In May she was sentenced to a one-year license revocation, a one-year conditional discharge and fined $500, stemming from the incident.

The victim was crossing at the crosswalk when she was struck, according to the criminal complaint.

Her umbrella went flying and was crunched by the car wheels as the vehicle picked up speed and headed south on Hylan Boulevard, according to a surveillance videotape from the nearby Met Food supermarket.

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Cops search for hit-run driver left boy, 12, lying in street with broken leg

Last August, the unidentified operator of a Jeep Wrangler struck the victim while he was riding a bicycle at the intersection of Leonard Avenue and Neal Dow Avenue in Westerleigh, according to a written statement from the NYPD's Deputy Commissioner for Public Information.

The boy, Robert Reuss, 12, of Westerleigh, suffered a broken leg and required surgery after the crash, his aunt, Ruby Freeman, previously told the Advance.

Police released surveillance video of the vehicle sought in connection with the incident, taken from a nearby residence.

The footage shows a white, four-door Jeep Wrangler with a black top turn from St. John Avenue onto Lathrop Avenue shortly before the incident occurred, police said.

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Grisly, near fatal hit-and-run recounted by witness

Last May, Monique Knight, 37, was struck by a hit-and-run driver on Westervelt Avenue in New Brighton just after midnight while pulling her 4-month-old out of the rear passenger seat, police said.

A friend who lives at the apartment building where Knight was struck said she heard a car screeching down the block, followed by a crash. She went outside, fearing her car had been damaged.

What she found was much worse.

"I looked down, and her leg was splattered," said Shanelle Browning. "[Knight] said she was OK, and just to call 9-1-1... she was holding it down for the kids."

Knight, a single mother of three, was transported to Richmond University Medical Center where surgeons were able to save her life, and her legs from amputation, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.

A second adult was sleeping in the front passenger seat and an 8-year-old was in a rear passenger seat at the time of the incident, though neither were injured, police said.

As the driver of a SUV plowed into Knight, she had the wherewithal to drop her baby, which could have saved the baby's life, Browning said.

"When she saw the car, she instantly threw (the baby) into the car," said Browning. "He did hit the floor in the car, but he was in the car."