A Kiwi charity runner badly hurt in a hit-and-run in the US believes he was deliberately mowed down by a pick-up truck on a US highway.
Nick Ashill, who was less than 1000km from finishing a quest to run across America, has spoken about the moment he saw a dark-coloured pick-up veer off the road and aim straight for him as he ran on the shoulder of a Madison County highway.
The New Zealand marketing professor was bowled by a mystery vehicle and left for dead in a ditch on Route 40 near the Madison/Clark County line.
The father-of-four was talking to his wife on a hands-free skype call when he was bowled. She was able to raise the alarm from halfway across the world.
In a bedside interview to a Columbus television station Ashill said he couldn't recall much about the crash but was haunted by the terrifying moments before he was hit.
