JP, who asked to be identified only by his initials, was thrown at least 20 feet when a spinning BMW hit him at the intersection of Forest Hill Avenue and Westover Hills Boulevard in South Richmond.

"The most I could do was jump, because I knew if I didn't jump, I'm gonna end up under it," JP said.

The impact left him with a fractured neck at the spine. While he lay bleeding on the ground, he said bystanders focused more on recording the incident than helping him.

"Everybody trying to figure out what's in my pocket, take anything else I had on me, just wanting to record and post like just laughing," JP said. "Everybody's telling me, when I'm waking up, coming to my senses, that yeah, you were bleeding on the ground. So everybody's looking at me just bleeding on the ground. Just, that's

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