Calgary police are looking for the driver of a vehicle that hit a 15-year-old girl on the weekend and then left the scene.

Kira Ferneyhough has 32 stitches in the back of her head and is bruised all over her body.

The teen was hit by a vehicle in the 11000 block of Braeside Drive S.W. at about 7:45 Friday evening.

Kira’s mother Michelle says her daughter went to a movie at Chinook Mall with friends and then texted her to tell her that they were going to do a little shopping.

Michelle says she went out for coffee with a friend and that Kira texted her again at about 7:30 to ask if she could stop by a nearby park on the way home to swing on the swings.

“We texted back and forth briefly because I wanted to clarify which Tim’s she was at and which park and then I texted her, ‘are you cold?’, cause it was a little windy that night, and I never got a response,” said Michelle.

Michelle says she didn’t think much of it and assumed Kira was on her way home.

“At 7:59 I got a blocked call on my cellphone and I answered it and it was the police telling me that she had been hit by a car,” she said.

Michelle went to the scene and says EMS had just loaded Kira into an ambulance and was taking her to Alberta Children’s Hospital with a head injury.

“She knew her name, she knew my name and she knew my cell phone number. She did not know what day it was, what month it was or what year it was,” said Michelle. “There was some shards of headlight on the ground that they were collecting but there was no vehicle stopped anywhere.”

Michelle says police found Kira face-down on the side of the road and she was covered in blood and gravel was embedded in her chest.

“Area residents found her lying in the roadway and the vehicle had fled the scene,” said CPS Constable Chris Mahoney. “What’s really unsettling about this is that no one heard any tire screeches or the incident at all, leaving us to believe that the vehicle fled the scene rather quickly.”

Kira was released from hospital on Saturday and says the whole thing is a blur.

“I don’t remember leaving the mall with anybody, I don’t remember being at the hospital, I don’t remember going to the park or texting my mom that I wanted to go anywhere. I just blacked out after the movie basically,” she said. “On Sunday when I woke up it felt like Saturday was a dream because it was really hazy and I couldn’t really remember all the people that I talked to or if they actually came or not.”

She says she still has dizzy spells and is in a fair bit of pain.

“No matter what I do to get comfortable, it doesn’t work,” she said. “I’m just really confused, like why someone would do that to someone. I get it, you were probably scared but that’s still like, even if I killed somebody I wouldn’t go running away, I would like own up to it because I’d be too scared not too.”

Kira’s mother says she just doesn’t understand how someone could hit a child in broad daylight and leave the scene.

“I am hoping that somebody who sees this knows something. Somebody hit my daughter at the edge of a playground zone hard enough to break their headlight, somebody knows something and I just want them to come forward,” said Michelle. “To drive off is just disgusting to me and I don’t understand it at all.”

Police say the vehicle would likely have visible damage.

“Based on what we found at the scene, the vehicle’s going to most likely have a broken front headlight and possibly some fender damage as well,” said Constable Mahoney.

Police say it was still light outside when the incident happened and they are hoping someone in the area may have seen what happened.

(With files from Ina Sidhu)