Jason Hoffman can vividly recall arriving at a Bay Shore intersection roughly a decade ago to find a 5-year-old child, who had been struck by a hit-and-run driver moments earlier, unresponsive in her mother's arms.

Hoffman, an EMS supervisor at Stony Brook University Hospital, had only seconds to convince the distraught mother to release her severely injured child into his care, unsure if she'd ever see her daughter alive again.

While the child survived and recovered from a traumatic brain injury, the episode still haunts Hoffman, who wonders what he could have done differently to provide the girl with a better outcome.

'Keeps you up at night'

"It keeps you up at night, thinking what could I have done better," said Hoffman, 43, of Bay Shore, who relies on the support of close friends a

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