PHOENIX (AP) - Authorities are looking for a hit-and-run driver who pulled an injured pedestrian from the hood of the driver’s car and then fled the scene.
Chris Carpenter suffered a broken leg and numerous cuts in the Sunday evening accident. The 19-year-old said he was walking across a street when he was struck. He remembers rolling into the windshield and getting stuck in its glass.
“I’m like, ’How am I in a windshield?’ I was pulling glass out of my stomach. It was so painful,” he added.
The accident “happened so fast,” Carpenter said. “I just remember walking and then boom, rolling into the windshield. And, I remember my head going into the windshield.”
Maricopa County sheriff’s Deputy Joaquin Enriquez said a witness told investigators that the driver stopped only long enough to pull Carpenter off the hood.
Carpenter recalled yelling at the driver to take him to a hospital but the man drove off.
“He was speechless. If anything, he was in shock, I think. I yelled to him repeatedly, ’Where are you going? Take me to the hospital! Obviously I can’t walk!’ I was in pain, and the dude didn’t care. He just drove off,” Carpenter said.
Deputies are looking for a mid-1990s dark sedan with damage to its windshield and its hood.
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