Horrifying video shows the moments after a Manhattan special education teacher and mom of four was plowed into by a moped rider — who peeled off and left her unconscious in the street.
The young-looking rider blew through a red light and slammed into Keri Roy, 57 – who had the right of way as she walked on Broadway near West 218th Street in Inwood on her way home around 12:45 p.m. July 15, according to cops and her husband David Mccarie, 53.
The brief clip, obtained by The Post, shows the driver standing over Roy to check on her as she lay unconscious and face down on the ground before taking off in apparent panic.
“I was very upset,” Roy’s husband David Mccarrie said of seeing the video. “It’s hard to see someone that you love and care for in such a powerless situation … I’ve been married for over 25 years and she’s everything to me and my children. So I [initially] felt helpless, powerless and very angry.”
Another moped driver was riding alongside the offender at the same intersection, but that motorist stopped at the light and wasn’t involved in the crash, Mccarie said.
Roy, who suffered a broken jaw and fractured cheekbone, was taken to Harlem Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition and released — but she was hospitalized once again this week.
The fracture affected the nerves in her face, lips and teeth, and she now is suffering an infection, her husband said.
“[The doctors] have to do something about it now, like today or tomorrow, they’re gonna take care of her,” Mccarie said Wednesday morning. “It’s all influx. I just found out about this a couple hours ago myself.”
Still, Mccarie said that now, neither he nor his wife are angry at the still-at-large reckless driver.
“One of the first conversations I had with Keri was that she wasn’t mad at what happened. I wasn’t mad at what happened,” he said. “The kid didn’t mean to do it — he was joyriding, which happens all the time in the city. It happened — and it was bound to happen. It’s unfortunate that it had to happen to my wife.”
The couple shares four kids – a 21, 17, 15 and 12.
Roy – who “has a huge heart” – teaches math to special education students and also works as a tutor, according to her husband.
“She’s a school teacher and this is her time to be off enjoying her life and now she’s in the hospital,” Mccarie said.
“This has affected our entire summer and will affect the entire rest of the year. We made a lot of plans and they’re all askew now.”
The NYPD released grabs from the surveillance footage on Tuesday, showing the hit-and-run driver who is described as a male with a dark complexion and a slim build.
He was last seen wearing a black skull cap, a white tank top, black shorts, and black and red sneakers.
Mopeds have been used as getaway vehicles in multiple recent crimes across the city, including armed robberies and even shootings.
But Mccarie says his wife’s case is different.
“A lot of people around us are like, you gotta get these kids, blah blah blah,” Mccarrie said. “I’m like, ‘Yeah, we do. But it wasn’t on purpose. If it was on purpose, that would be a whole different set of emotions.’”
“If something like this could happen to my wife, it can happen to anybody and it’s hard to police all that, because there’s a lot of roads and there’s a lot of people,” he added. “But you know, it’s just more law enforcement and more people trying to use their common sense but that’s not always the first thing people do.
“These kids should not be doing this, you know, obviously, but they’re kids and they do these things.”
