Police are asking for help in finding the driver who hit a 13-year-old girl in downtown Nashville this weekend as she was crossing Van Buren street in a crosswalk.

Det. Brian Lucas with the Nashville Police Department reported that the incident happened just around 5:20 p.m. Saturday at the crosswalk near the Brown County Visitors Center as town was busy with tourists checking out the fall colors.

The victim told police she was going across the street to the Nashville BP gas station to buy some milk when a van stopped at the crosswalk near the Visitors Center to let her cross, Lucas said.

As the girl began to cross, a car behind the van went around and struck her on her left side, causing her to fall to the ground, Lucas said.

The girl told police that a man, a woman and two young children got out of the car. She described the adults as white and in their early to late 30s. She said the car was either a gray or tan four-door sedan.

The adults helped her up and asked if she was OK. The girl told them that her leg “really hurts bad,” and she told police that the two adults looked at each other before getting back in the car and leaving the scene, Lucas said.

There was a crowd of witnesses, and the victim remembered some people were yelling out the license plate number.

Lucas said he hopes someone wrote that number down and will share it with police.

The victim said someone even threw an item at the car as it drove away.

The car turned right into an alley just past East Washington Street near the Village Candlemaker. That alley comes out near the public restrooms on Old School Way.

“That makes you believe they knew where that alley was, so they might be local because that alley is not marked; it’s not a street,” Lucas said.

He said he was going to look at security camera footage at Brown County High School to see if those cameras caught anyone leaving Old School Way around that time.

“It might have been a tourist. We don’t know who it is, but obviously we had a boatload of witnesses,” he said.

The girl was taken to the hospital by a guardian. She did not have any broken bones, Lucas said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Lucas at 812-988-5533 or 812-988-0341.