STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.-- The motorcycle rider who was severely injured in a hit-and-run last weekend said the driver who left him lying in the street is an "animal."

"I wouldn't even call them a person, that's an animal," Frank Morse, 49, told the Advance from his hospital room Wednesday. "How can you hit someone like that and drive away?"

Morse, of Westerleigh, said he remembers hearing a loud motor noise coming from behind him while he was stopped at a red light near Victory Boulevard and Little Clove Road. Then he looked down at the mirror on his Honda bike, and the next thing he knew the car was on top of him, he said.

Morse said he was flung 30 feet in the air and 50 feet away upon impact.

"I hit the ground hard and when I landed, I couldn't straighten out my body," he recalled. "I was shaped like a U."

Morse, a city Sanitation worker, suffered a shattered pelvis. He snapped, sprained, and tore ligaments in his pelvic area and also has a dislocated shoulder.

He underwent a nine-hour emergency surgery to insert screws and plates at St. Joseph's Hospital in New Jersey, where he is still recovering.

His sister previously told the Advance that he is facing a long rehabilitation, which may include learning to walk again.

Morse said just doing simple things, like going to the bathroom, is met with agony and tears.

"I'm in a lot of pain today," he said. "I don't have any aspirations about my recovery. I'm going to do my best to get back my life the way it was.

"There's a long road ahead of me, and it's bumpy."

Police said the motorcycle was struck from the rear by a sedan as he waited at the red light at Victory Boulevard and Little Clove Road in Sunnyside at 8:24 p.m. on Aug. 6.

The sedan continued eastbound on Victory Boulevard, police said. The victim suffered trauma to his body and was removed to Staten Island University Hospital in critical, but stable, condition.

The suspect's vehicle is a silver, four-door sedan with damage to the hood and the front driver's side, police said. The driver is believed to be a female in her 30s, authorities said.

"That's the biggest animal I've ever seen," Morse said of the driver.

Police, who released surveillance video of the incident, said the investigation is ongoing.

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