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SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. 鈥?He now has trouble walking and wears a brace around his neck, but Eric Malcolm III said hes lucky to be alive. Im one of the ones that made it, so I am very fortunate, he said.The Tampa man said he survived a hit-and-run on July 12 around 8:45 p.m.Malcolm was driving a friend from Tampa International Airport to Sarasota. Because of a faulty needle in his gauge, his car ran out of gas on I-75 southbound just feet away from the Bee Ridge Road exit in Sarasota County. So what I did was pull over on the side of the road right at the edge of the exit, he said.He called the Road Rangers for help but then learned a gas station was just a five-minute walk away. So I was like, Well, Ill go ahead and just walk up there and grab some gas, he said.Malcolm said he left his friend in his truck and began walking in the grass just off the road from I-75 toward the nearby exit ramp.Then, something happened. Malcolm lost c stanley cups onsciousness.He blacked out multiple times and regained consciousness face down in the grass near Cattlemen Road in excruciating pain. My visi stanley cup on was very blurry. I pushed myself up off the ground, and I screamed in a lot of pain, he remembered. It all felt like stanley quencher a dream. Malcolm said a good Samaritan spotted him and called 911.According to Malcolm, when Sarasota County deputies responded, they mistakenly thought he was lying in the grass because he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Because of the lack of consciousness, Malcolm also didnt Hksg Maine is the first to use ranked-choice voting statewide 鈥?what that means for Election Day
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