Marcella Matutino, 50, of Stevens Avenue, was said to be talking on her cell phone when she hit the Hispanic boy, Jose Restrepo, on Feb. 12, according to the boy’s relatives.

The boy sustained severe head and internal injuries and was rushed to University Medical Center in Newark, where he remained in critical condition until this week, police said.

The accident occurred about 6 p.m. on Fulton Avenue near Sterling Avenue, where the boy lives, the Jersey Journal said.

Dolly Restrepo, the boy’s mother, and Lena Gonzalez, his aunt, told the Journal they were playing with the boy in the snow-covered street when they saw a 1998 tan Lexus SUV come around the corner and hit him.

Matutino told police the boy ran out in front of her car and she couldn’t stop in time because of the poor road conditions.

“I got out to see what happened and the people there told me to move so they could get the boy out from under my truck,” Matutino told police immediately after the accident. “I think he was running because he was being chased. I think they were playing.”

Gonzalez said the woman was still on her cell phone, even after she hit her nephew.

“Dolly came down and we were telling the driver of the car to roll down her window but she was on the phone,” Gonzalez told the Journal. “Then we told the woman that Jose was under the car and she backed up and ran Jose over again.”

Matutino has not been charged with anything, police said.