Hit & Run ~ My cousin

My cousin has suffered broken bones - nose, several in the wrist and possibly a broken back and multiple other injuries.

We are hoping if anyone has seen anything last night that they report it. This all took place in Dixon CA. Please read the article below.

Ed will be in the hospital for a while and has a wonderful, beautiful wife and two daughters. They need your help to find out who hit him.

Info sought in man's injury
By Kimberly K. Fu/ KFu@TheReporter.com
Article Launched: 10/17/2008 07:17:35 AM

The California Highway Patrol is asking for the public's help in determining how a Dixon man was injured Thursday night on a Dixon roadway.

Around 5:45 p.m., 45-year-old Edward John Ballerini reportedly was jogging in the area of Midway and Pitt School roads. A passing motorist saw him checking his watch on one side of Midway Road and then crossing to the other side, California Highway Patrol officials said. Fifteen minutes later, the motorist reportedly drove through the area again, only to notice the commotion on the roadway and learn that the pedestrian he had seen earlier was at the center of it.

It turns out that, shortly after 6 p.m., another passing motorist noticed a hat and other items lying near a ditch off Midway Road at Pitt School Road, officials said. For some reason, she pulled over to check it out. And found the victim, later identified as Ballerini, in the ditch.

The victim was conscious, CHP Officer Julie Saraiva said, and suffered cuts to his face, right arm and wrist. Memory loss, it seems, was also an issue.

"He doesn't remember anything," Saraiva said. "He doesn't even know where he is."
No vehicles were in the vicinity of the accident scene and no eyewitnesses were in the area, either.

The victim was later airlifted by REACH ambulance to the University of California, Davis, Medical Center in Sacramento. His condition was unavailable at press time.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the California Highway Patrol during normal business hours at 428-2100 or 1-800-TELL-CHP.