A young father opened after his horror experience in an alleged accident outrage and escape after emerging from a four weeks -induced coma.
Connor McLeod, 25, was walking towards a friend’s house in Loganlea, about 25 kilometers south of Brisbane, in February, when he was hit by a driver allegedly without a license on an unregistered path bicycle.
The driver supposedly stopped to look before taking off.
McLeod said they had to die.
“It fills me with anger because he got up and left the scene as anyone’s matter and then left me there to die and almost killed me,” McLeod told 9News.
“Why do that? Why would you act like this?”
McLeod suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, a fractured skull, two collapsed lungs, a fractured rib crowd, a chip of vertebrae in his neck and a fracture of compound arm.
He struggled for his life in the hospital.
“The doctors told me if I didn’t go to a fetal position as I did, it would be paralyzed,” he said.
McLeod said that what he kept him was his fiance Anneliese and his daughter Aliyah.
“If I didn’t have them, to be honest, I could have let go to the hospital. I was fighting for them, fighting to return,” he said.
McLeod was finally discharged from the hospital on Friday. He said his life has changed.
“The pain is almost unbearable,” he said.
The accused driver, Jermaine Johnason Unuia, 21, handed over the police two days after the accident.
He was accused of six crimes and his case was heard in Beenleight Court for the first time today.
Unuia did not appear in court in person and his lawyer refused to answer questions from journalists. He will face the Court again in May.
