Wash Heights Man Run Over By Spinning Car Can't Eat Or Talk: Mom

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — A fundraiser has been started by the mother of a Washington Heights man who was run over this weekend by a car doing doughnuts in the middle of a Lower Manhattan street.

The uptown resident, Christopher Brito, suffered a fractured skull, brain injury, numerous broken bones, and cannot currently eat, move, or talk, police reported and his mother wrote.

He has already undergone surgeries on his face.

"On March 18, 2022, a tragedy happened, the worst phone call I received in my life," Jackie Brito wrote in the fundraiser for her son. "He was at a car event and was ran over by one of the drivers and is in critical condition. It breaks my heart to find out that his skull was cracked and his arms, ribs, nose, and pelvis are broken."

Brito was hit as a red sedan driver did spins for a large crowd at Vandam Street and Greenwich Street on Saturday. Video shows the Washington Heights resident running out into the street in what appears to be an attempt to film the doughnuts, but he trips and falls into the car's path.

The crowd reacts in horror as the car rolls over him, before the people quickly scatter.

The driver fled the scene afterward, but attorney Nicholas Ramcharitar told the Daily News that the suspected driver will turn himself in at the 1st Precinct stationhouse on Wednesday.

The driver feels bad about the crash and had no idea Brito was on the floor, Ramcharitar said to the Daily News.

Jackie calls her son Christopher outgoing, kind, smart, hardworking, respectful, motivated, and dedicated.

In the two days since the GoFundMe was created, it has raised $14,000 of its $30,000 goal with 361 donations.

"I can tell as his mother he has a great support system of friends and acquaintances outside of his family support," reads the GoFundMe. "His dad and I would greatly appreciate the donations and if you can please keep my son in your prayers. Thank you!"