'Left me there to die': Young dad opens up on alleged hit and run
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A young father has opened up after his horror experience in an alleged hit-and-run crash after emerging from a four-week induced coma.

Connor McLeod, 25, was walking to a friend’s home in Loganlea, about 25 kilometres south of Brisbane, in February when he was hit by an allegedly unlicensed driver on an unregistered trail bike.

The driver allegedly stopped to glance back before taking off. 

A young father has opened up after his horror experience in an alleged hit-and-run crash after emerging from a four-week-long induced coma.
Connor McLeod was hit by an allegedly unlicensed driver on an unregistered trail bike.  (Nine)

McLeod said he was left to die. 

“It fills me with rage because he just got up and left the scene like no one’s business and then left me there to die and it nearly did kill me,” McLeod told 9News.

“Why do that? Why would you act like that?”

McLeod suffered a brain bleed, a fractured skull, two collapsed lungs, a fractured rib cage, a vertebrae chip in his neck and a compound arm fracture.

He was left fighting for his life in hospital.

“I was told by the doctors if I didn’t go into fetal position like I did I would be paralysed,” he said.

A young father has opened up after his horror experience in an alleged hit-and-run crash after emerging from a four-week-long induced coma.
Connor McLeod has opened up after his horror experience in an alleged hit-and-run crash. (Nine)

McLeod said what kept him going was his fiancee Anneliese and daughter Aliyah.

“If I didn’t have them, to be honest, I might’ve even let go in the hospital. I was fighting for them, fighting to come back,” he said.

McLeod was finally discharged from hospital on Friday. He said his life has been changed.

“The pain is almost unbearable,” he said.

The accused driver, 21-year-old Jermaine Johnason Unuia, handed himself into police two days after the crash. 

He was charged with six offences and his case was heard in Beenleigh Court for the first time today.

Unuia did not appear in court in person and his lawyer refused to answer questions from reporters. He will face court again in May.

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