(Family photo, taken the day Alex left Harborview)

That’s Alex, who survived a crash on Fauntleroy Way north of Lincoln Park four weeks ago. His mother Katie e-mailed to say that investigators are still looking for the driver who left the scene:

On 9/8/15 around 9:30 pm my son was involved in a hit-and-run accident on Fauntleroy and Othello. He was admittedly going over the speed limit when a white truck pulled out in front of him, cutting him off. The driver of the truck then stopped in the middle of my son’s lane, causing my son to hit the back driver’s side quarter panel. The impact threw him off his motorcycle and into two parked cars. The motorcycle slid for quite a ways in the middle of Fauntleroy. The driver of the truck then backed up, looked at my son, and then drove off … leaving my son screaming in pain, asking for help.

My son, Alex, is 20 years old. His left thumb was ripped off and his joint degloved, his left pinky was cut almost in half, he broke and dislocated his left hand in multiple places. His left shoulder was separated. His left femur is fractured and MCL damaged. His right thumb was dislocated. He had large patches of road rash over his body. He has had two separate surgeries on his hand. The first surgery the team of doctors attempted to save his thumb and pinky and were unable to because the damage was too great. The second surgery was to cut a skin flap to cover the exposed bone and tissue/muscle at the base of the thumb and cover that area with a skin graft. He had to receive a blood transfusion due to the massive blood loss from his injuries.

He faces another surgery in a few weeks, just to gain limited function of the remaining parts of his left hand. He faces long-term rehabilitation, likely further surgeries to attempt to give him a functional thumb, and a completely different life than he would have had otherwise.

The police have no leads at this time. We are asking for you to post on the Blog a request for the person who left this young man screaming for help, and anyone who has information about the crash and/or driver of the ***SMALL TO MIDSIZE WHITE PICKUP TRUCK (HAD A BLACK OR WHITE W/BLACK CANOPY AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT) – WILL HAVE BODY DAMAGE TO THE DRIVER’S SIDE REAR QUARTER PANEL AND BRIGHT YELLOW/BLACK PAINT TRANSFER*** to please contact the Seattle Police Department Accident Investigation Team at 206-684-8923; police report #15-315463.

My son is a really great young man, and did not deserve to be left for dead in the middle of the road. Any help is very much appreciated.