Davis Motorcyclist Pleads With Apathetic Hit-And-Run Driver After Crash
DAVIS (CBS13) - A local man didn't think he'd live to see Christmas Day after, he says, a driver hit him then left him on the road.
"I pleaded with this guy, 'Man I'm going to bleed out. Call 911,'" said Nikolas Kostelny, who was hit.
Instead, he says, that driver took off.
CBS13 is in Davis with the search for that cold-blooded driver. It was on Chiles Road where the man was hit by the car. The driver stopped and talked to him, but didn't help.
"I just kind of closed my eyes and said, 'Wow, this is it,'" said Kostelny.
¬Kostelny thought he was going to die. He describes riding on his motorcycle down Chiles Road in Davis last Wednesday night when an SUV headed the opposite direction swerved right in front of him.
"I flew off my bike. I believe I hit his windshield and kind of rag-dolled off his roof and landed on the concrete behind his car," said Kostelny.
Kostelny amazingly never lost consciousness. When he noticed the driver didn't get out to help, he picked himself up - his hand and arm were torn apart.
"I was just begging with him, pleading with him, 'Please call 911. I'm going to lose my hand. I'm going to bleed out,'" said Kostelny.
He says the driver rolled down the window.
"He looked at me and said, 'You know what man, I ain't calling s***,'" said Kostelny.
The driver then drove away.
Dazed and bleeding -- his hand hanging off by tendons – he was to able walk to this nearby motel to get help. The driver was long gone.
"Really cold-hearted, sick…just totally negligent of human life," he said.
The 21-year-old roofer and part-time firefighter was rushed to UC Davis Medical Center where surgeons rushed to save his hand.
"My hand is my life force in my life pretty much. It's my money maker," he said.
Luckily Kostelny will likely keep his hand.
For his mother, Kathryn, she's just happy she has her son this Christmas and wants the driver caught.
"I would tell him he needs to turn himself in, because it's only a matter of time before he kills a family, kills a child…and he's going to get caught," said Kathryn.
"This is definitely going to be a long road, but I feel like I'm going to get through it," said Kostelny.
Kostelny says he is sure the driver had to go to a body shop to get his car fixed. He's sure one of the air bags deployed and the SUV likely had heavy front-end damage.
The driver is described as a bald man with salt-and-pepper facial hair. He was driving a blue four-door Jeep Liberty.
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