Man In Coma After Car Hits Him As He Flirts With Woman: Report

CHELSEA, NY — A 24-year-old man who was rammed by an SUV while flirting with a woman in Chelsea is in a coma, the New York Post reports. The man, Khorey Rice, was angling for the woman's phone number at West 18th Street near Tenth Avenue when he was struck by a car crossing the street and was placed in a medically induced coma, Rice's step mother told The Post on Sunday.

Rice is recovering from his injuries in Bellevue Hospital and, although he is expected to survive, he was place into a coma to allow his brain to heal. He may have memory loss.

“They said he’ll be there [in the ICU] for at least four weeks and that when he wakes up he might not remember anything,” Rice's stepmother told the newspaper. “He’s got stitches in the back of his head like a ‘V.'"

Rice was crossing the street just after chatting up the woman when a driver in a Jeep SUV with New Jersey plates slammed into him at around 4:30 a.m., according to The Post.

The driver, Shenouda Gad, 29, of Jersey City, who cops say had a suspended license, was arrested and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation, police said.

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