At 52, John Shoeboot is far from a quitter, but until recently even he didn’t know just how much “fight” there was in him.
“You fall down, but you have to get back up again. Just the little things you took for granted are now challenges that are very hard to do,” he told 7News.
On July 30, Shoeboot was waiting at a bus stop near East Colfax Avenue and Josephine Street when police said a car driven by Mark Skipper jumped the curb and slammed into several people. Surveillance video showed the impact. “It happened so fast,” Shoeboot said.
Witnesses reported the suspect crawled out of the window and ran off. He was later arrested.
“I saw it about a second and a half before it hit me. It pinned me and shoved a board from my knee up to my buttocks. It impaled me. I wasn’t able to get up,” Shoeboot said.
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