Crime & Safety
VIDEO: Mini-Bike Driver Violently Crashes into Woman on Sidewalk, Then Rides Away Leaving Her Unconscious
"How can people be so cold-hearted as to leave somebody laying there," woman asks.
A woman is in danger of losing her peripheral vision after she was knocked unconscious by an alleged hit-and-run driver who was riding a mini-bike on a South Side sidewalk.
The 41-second surveillance video shows the mini-bike violently crashing into 24-year-old Catalina Gomez as she left her job at South Side auto shop about three weeks ago.
The driver gets off the mini-bike and peeks inside the business. He starts the bike up again and rides away leaving Gomez lying unconscious on the sidewalk. Mechanics at the shop found Gomez moments later, who had no memory of the incident until she woke up in a hospital bed with a severe concussion and bruises.
“He didn’t even call 9-1-1,” Gomez told ABC 7. “It is sad, how can people be so cold-hearted as to leave somebody laying there.”
Until her co-workers checked the auto shop’s surveillance cameras, none of them knew how Gomez came to be lying on the sidewalk. Police were called, but Gomez said she has had little response from them since the day of the hit-and-run incident, ABC 7 reported.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call police.
She’s back at work but still has headaches and blurry vision.
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