Calgary victim of horrific hit-and-run focused on recovery: ‘I forgive you’
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'I was in excruciating pain as he ran over my legs. I remember every second of it, people screaming,'Oh my God he just hit her,' and people getting on the phone with 911.'
Zain Samji, 43, left for work on Thursday, Jan. 19. She hasn’t enjoyed a meal in her own kitchen or tucked her kids into bed since then.
As she was crossing 52 Street at 61 Avenue SE at about 7:30 a.m, Samji was run over by a pickup truck pulling a trailer. Her legs were crushed.
“I’ve always been taught to make eye contact,” said Samji from an interview at a southwest care home, where she is currently a patient.
“So I made eye contact (with the driver) and then my light change and I started walking” Samji recalls.
The driver she said she made eye contact with didn’t stop.
“Clipped me — I’m assuming with the side mirror — and then I fell backwards. I was in excruciating pain as he ran over my legs.
Police released video of a vehicle of interest on Feb. 2. It has generated some tips, but so far no arrests.
Samji has undergone 10 surgeries so far, including multiple skin grafts, and the placement of metal pins to repair her badly broken legs.
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