Zachary Morales will never forget the night of April 1, when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver.<\/p>\n
“I look to my left and then as I look back I see this car coming right at me,” said Morales. “Just the impact and I went launching over the car about 15 to 20 feet, landed on the ground and just excruciating pain,” he added.<\/p>\n
The Chula Vista Police Department (CVPD) said that the incident happened at approximately 7:28 p.m. at the intersection of Olympic Parkway and Heritage Road in Chula Vista. <\/p>\n
Officers arrived on scene and located the 35-year-old driver of a motorcycle, Morales, lying in the intersection with injuries. CVPD said that the investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n
“I’m still in pain. I wake up every morning in pain,” said Morales. “I can’t go to work, I can’t do the basic things, just the basic things that I took appreciation for of just being able to get up so easily and walk to the kitchen or go to the bathroom,” he added. <\/p>\n
Morales suffered a broken leg and still has a long road to recovery. Thankfully, he said, the injuries he sustained are likely not permanent. In the meantime, however, he cannot continue enjoying his passion of riding motorcycles. <\/p>\n
“At first I was really, probably frustrated by the fact that\u2014how can somebody just leave like that. But I don’t know their circumstances, so I’m not trying to judge,” said Morales.<\/p>\n
Morales provided video of the hit-and-run to NBC 7 that was recorded with an Insta360 X 5 mounted to his bike. Despite the video showing a clearly visible license plate number, it’s difficult to distinguish who exactly was behind the wheel. <\/p>\n
“I’m just trying to recover as fast as possible, and just kind of get back to my normal life again,” said Morales.<\/p>\n
NBC 7 reached out to CVPD for more details on a possible suspect and are waiting to hear back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zachary Morales will never forget the night of April 1, when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[9974,74,84,76,75,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-264588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-chula-vista","9":"tag-san-diego","10":"tag-san-diego-county","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news","13":"tag-south-bay"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}