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Injured pedicab driver pleads for help

06:31 PM CDT on Thursday, September 20, 2007
By ERIN OCHOA
KVUE News
The driver of a pedicab that was struck by a car is pleading for the public’s help. He wants to find the person or persons responsible for hitting his pedicab late last month, injuring him and his two passengers.

It happened on the south end of the Ann Richards Congress Avenue Bridge. Police say the car and the pedicab were traveling south on the bridge just before 2 a.m. August 24 when the car struck the pedicab from behind.

“I was terrified that these people had just been killed,” said Russell Stinnett. The 31-year-old was driving a pedicab when he was hit. He and his passengers, Jayne Tracy, 32, and Jeff Uribe, 39, were knocked off the bike and carriage.

“The impact threw all three of us over the back of the cab and threw the cab up onto the sidewalk, over that curb,” said Stinnett.

Stinnette suffered two broken vertebrae, and cuts and bruises. He and Tracy were treated and released from Brackenridge Hospital. Stinnett says Uribe suffered critical injuries and was just released from the hospital.

Now police are trying to figure out who’s responsible.

“We’re people. Don’t forget that were people. We might be going slower than you want us to, that doesn’t mean you can hit us, and as far as the guy that did hit us in the pedicab, just come forward. Just own up to what you’ve done,” said Stinnett.

Police are looking for a small, black, two-door sports car. They’re asking anyone who may have any information, even if they noticed something small such as a bumper sticker on the car, to contact police.

Stinnett says Jeff Uribe works for Red Bull, and that the company is offering a $25,000 reward to anyone with information leading to an arrest.