COCONUT CREEK, Fla. – It’s been over every week since a South Florida man was struck by a automobile and left for lifeless in Broward County.
“Why would you not cease? Why not verify on that particular person,” requested the sufferer, Ruben Perales.
His eyes bloodshot and nonetheless so anxious, Perales has so many questions.
“Oh man, how do you sleep at evening? Does it trouble you in any respect,” he stated.
It was the Saturday Feb. 15 round 8 p.m. when Perales was struck.
He was out on a run, going east alongside the bike lane on Wiles Highway close to Northwest thirty ninth Avenue in Coconut Creek.
It’s the very last thing he remembers earlier than waking up.
“Within the hospital like two days later,” he stated of the following factor he remembered.
Perales was discovered on the highway, run over.
Like an animal, left for lifeless, as a result of the driving force stored going.
“My complete leg, the aspect of my again, and my face, I imply it’s not like simply ran over a toe,” Perales stated. “You actually went over half of my physique with no matter a truck, is what I’m being instructed, it was a truck.”
“You knew you hit me, and you continue to drove away,” he added. “A cop known as my spouse.”
A Good Samaritan discovered him and known as paramedics.
Components of his leg have been shattered and his physique was crushed up all through.
“I do have fractures in my cranium,” he stated.
The husband and a father of three is thought in his Deerfield Seashore group for being a superb neighbor.
Again in December, he was one of many Good Samaritans who jumped right into a burning house to assist get a household to security.
Now, he is aware of he’s fortunate to be alive, however he wonders why the driving force who hit him didn’t do the suitable factor.
“Errors occur, perhaps it was a mistake, however the greatest mistake was simply driving away, not stopping,” he stated.
Relations have created a GoFundMe to assist with medical bills, which may be discovered by clicking right here.
Police urge anybody with info to name Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.
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