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30 year old Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff's Deputy Doug Matteson was riding home after dinner with a friend early one morning in 2004, when his motorcycle was struck by a hit and run driver. Thrown into the middle of a freeway, at 2:15 am in the morning, all Deputy Matteson remembers next were headlights coming at him. Crawling on two hand and one leg, the seriously injured motorcyclist crawled across two lanes, and was grazed by a vehicle that attempted to miss him. Luckily, that vehicle stopped, and one of its passengers, a nurse, saved his life. While he would survive, the deputy would loose a leg. Moments later, a highway patrolman would discover the hit and run driver, with a friend, at an all night car wash, attempting to change a damaged tire. The arrested driver - an off-duty Scottsdale police officer. |
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 In 2002, 23 year old Jaime Walker was struck by a hit and run driver while riding his motorcycle. Since that date Jaime has been suffering from brain damage and has been in a vegetative state. Jaime receives nourishment through a feeding tube, doesn't respond to commands and is blind. As of March 2005, he resides at his mothers home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His mother resigned from her job to take care of him full time.
(source - Tuscaloosa News 3/23/05)
(photo courtesy - Montgomery Advertiser 3/23/05 Mother Kay Walker and her son, Jaime) |
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