A teen is dead, another teen remains in serious condition, and a one-year-old child is recovering after being struck by a car on a dark, rain soaked Brevard County roadway.

"I almost cried when I heard," said Edward Loftus. "It hurts my heart."

Edward Loftus lives around the corner from Fay Boulevard in Port St. John, where 16-year-old Hayley Johnson was pushing 19-month-old Lilth Elis in a stroller Tuesday  just before 8 p.m. as they returned from a nearby store.

With them, her boyfriend, 19-year-old Dale Lambert -- they were babysitting the child, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Trooper said the driver of the car was Bobbi Bolash, 42, and that charges are pending/

Lambert says he doesn't know how he will go on without Johnson.

"It's heartbreaking, my heart is torn apart," he said. "I'm just glad that baby is still alive. That's all that matters."

The baby's mother, Chelsea Tabor, was best friends with Johnson.

"She's like the most important person to me," says Tabor.

The baby spent the night in the hospital, but beside some bumps and bruises, she is going to be OK.

"I'm so grateful she chose the heavy stroller, not the smaller one she usually takes. Because my daughter wouldn't be here if she didn't," said Tabor, with tears in her eyes.

A woman driving in this area right before the crash tells troopers she almost hit the teens. She said they were walking in the roadway northbound, in the northbound lane.

"They were walking with their back towards the vehicle that struck them, we'd have to assume they were in the northbound lane if they were struck by a northbound vehicle," says Florida Highway Patrol trooper Channing Taylor.

That vehicle was driven by a 42-year-old woman who tells troopers she didn't see the three. Johnson was killed and the two others sent to the hospital.

Johnson went to Astronaut High School in Titusville. Grief counselors were on hand Wednesday.

The principal released this statement:

"The loss of one of our students in such a tragic way is devastating to our community and our hearts go out to the family. We will continue to provide the support and care to our students as they go through the grieving process."

Meantime, locals are hoping something can be done to make the area safer. One lone stretch of sidewalk is in front of a private school, but it ends there.

"End up off that sidewalk, onto the grass, or maybe walk on the side road. You're going to get hit, cause there's no sidewalks," says Loftus.

The Brevard County Transportation Planning Organization lists one pedestrian crash in this area of Curtis Boulevard in the past five years -- it was not a fatality.

We're also told there are no plans to install lights on the roadway.

Lambert remains in serious condition at Parrish Medical Center. The child is doing fine at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.

Charges are pending in the crash.

Florida law says pedestrians must walk facing traffic as close to the side of the roadway as possible.