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Working for a utility company can be tough, especially when it involves outside work in dangerous situations. Working on the streets with passing vehicles whizzing inches away the sparse orange cone safety barrier is a risk in itself, employees don’t know when they could be hit. Last week Rayshawn Neely, a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. worker was injured on the job when a passing vehicle struck him. Although he was working with a crew along McKinley Avenue near Marks Avenue in Fresno, the passing vehicle hit him, like an unfaithful bullet in a game or Russian roulette, except he managed to survive. The 37-year-old utility worker was struck at approximately 2 p.m. on Friday without warning. He was stunned. "I didn't hear tires screeching or anything," Neely told reporters Wednesday. "What really matters is God pulled me through and I'm here." Neely is grateful to be alive after being pinned against the oncoming car and his works’ PG&E truck. He opened the living room of his Madera home, where he is recuperating on a hospital bed, to reporters. Following the accident Neely was transported to the hospital where he had broken both feet. Doctors were forced to insert a rod in the lower part of his shattered leg. Jett Simmons McBride, a 54-year-old of Tacoma, Wash., was arrested for the incident. Fresno County sheriff’s deputies took him in for suspicion of attempted murder after ramming his car into Mr. Neely. McBride was booked into Fresno County Jail on Saturday. McBride did not go to jail scrape free, however. He received a beat down with a hatchet from Kai, a hitchhiker he had picked up earlier. According to Kai, McBride was making explanative racists comments prior to encountering Mr. Neely who is African American. Despite the accident, Mr. Neely and his wife, Amanda will not hold a grudge against McBride. "We shouldn't judge him," Amanda said. "We should just forgive him." Kai has since made headlines across the media and has been mentioned on comic Stephen Colbert’s show. If you are injured in a car collision make sure to see a doctor first, and then seek the help of a Fresno car accident lawyer. In the United States approximately 5,000 pedestrians are killed and more than 85,000 are injured each year – that is on average close to seven people killed or injured each minute. Over the last decade alone there have been more than 63,000 according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. This rate could be reduced
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