A Florida man who was peacefully sunbathing on the beach found himself “screaming bloody murder” in the sand when a Jeep ran over his head and body, according to police and reports.
Coleson Janey, 33, miraculously survived being rolled over — allegedly by a 61-year-old woman attempting to park her Wrangler — on Ormond Beach, where the beachgoer was soaking up the sun Saturday morning, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.
The terrifying ordeal left the Ocala man reeling in agony and forced to undergo emergency surgery, WESH 2 reported.
“I guess I had maybe fallen asleep for a little bit and then I woke up to a tire coming over my head,” Janey told the outlet from his hospital bed Monday.
“I was just screaming. Screaming my head off, screaming blood murder, of course, because I was just in so much pain.”
The Jeep driver was reportedly attempting to back into a parking spot when she veered off the travel lanes onto the sand and over Janey, who was lying on a towel, according to the sheriff.
Janey recalled feeling like he had “two brains” after he was barreled over by the more than 4,100-pound vehicle — one brain that was wailing in distress and the other thinking rationally about the damage his body sustained.
Janey then looked over and said he saw his forearm was left “flattened” and his leg “mangled.”
“Now I have a forearm that’s broken in two places,” he told the local outlet.
“Both bones in the forearm, clean break. And then my femur, which was broken, that they just had to put a titanium rod in yesterday.”
He also suffered bruising to his face and body.
The Jeep driver, who waited at the scene and cooperated with investigators, has since been cited with careless driving, deputies said, noting that there were no signs of impairment.
The investigation into the near-catastrophic mishap remains ongoing.
Janey, however, feels fortunate to live another day and looks forward to making a full recovery.
“I’m just thankful to be alive,” he told the outlet.
“And able to walk again at some point.”
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