WATCH: Police have released surveillance video of an SUV that’s believed to have hit a postal worker on Dec. 4. Shallima Maharaj has the latest on this story.
EDMONTON — Police released surveillance video Thursday, hoping to identify the suspect vehicle involved in a hit and run that seriously injured a postal worker.
Police are still investigating, and are now asking the public’s help identifying the SUV. (View the surveillance video below).
Letter carrier Greg Mady doesn’t know when he’ll be able to walk again after being hit in north Edmonton on Dec. 4.
The 32-year-old doesn’t remember much about the incident that happened Thursday afternoon in the area of 127 Avenue and 125 Street. He had just gotten out of his mail truck when he was knocked unconsciousness by a westbound vehicle.
Mady said he woke up in a pool of his blood, about ten feet from his vehicle, and couldn’t feel anything below his knees.
A witness reportedly saw a dark SUV hit Mady and then fled the scene.
“Basically he saw the person who hit me put on his lights and blinker to stop, theoretically. So he figured, ‘I won’t take down the license plate,'” Mady said.
“And I guess he was just slowing down so he could safely take the corner and get away, ’cause by the time he had stopped he realized the other vehicle wasn’t there.”
“It takes a special kind of heartless coward to walk away from somebody laying in a pool of their own blood in the snow,” Jennifer Kowton, Mady’s girlfriend, said Monday.
Mady suffered two broken knees and four compound fractures that required several surgeries. He still has up to six months of recovery ahead of him and doesn’t know when or if he’ll be able to return to his old job.
Just being able to live in his house, which he and his girlfriend purchased last month, will be a challenge due to the major renovations it’s under.
For now, the couple just hopes someone will come forward with information that will help Edmonton police with their investigation.
On Thursday, police released the following surveillance video from a nearby business.
WATCH: Surveillance video of Dec. 4 pedestrian hit and run
“We are asking for anyone with information about this vehicle to come forward to police, or that the driver of the vehicle comes forward to speak with us about the collision,” said Cst. Jeff McIsaac.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Edmonton Police Service at 780-423-4567.
Police previously released the following surveillance photo of the suspect vehicle. It’s believed to have a roof rack and tinted windows, and could be an older Jeep Grand Cherokee. The vehicle also likely damaged its right-hand side.
After seeing the surveillance video on Thursday, Mady says he feels for the driver who hit him. He says what he saw in the video showed a person who was likely scared and grappling with a difficult choice.
“A lot of people talk about justice and repercussions and all this kind of stuff, and honestly, I just want him or her, to take responsibility…for what they’ve done,” said Mady on Monday, holding back tears.
“We all make mistakes…An apology would be nice.”
Mady’s coworkers are shaken by the incident.
“I know that everybody has him in their mind while they’re out delivering mail in such a busy season,” said his supervisor, Joanne Kramer-Leger, who described Mady as a “wonderful person who does his job to the utmost.”
As for Mady, despite the long road to recovery that awaits him, he can’t stop thinking about the people on his route.
“I just feel bad that all of my customers won’t be seeing me.”
WATCH BELOW: A hit and run landed an Edmonton mail carrier in hospital. Fletcher Kent reports.
With files from Fletcher Kent, Global News
*NOTE: This article was originally published on Dec. 8. It was updated on Dec. 11 to include new video surveillance from police.
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