A road construction worker who survived a hit-and-run accident on Interstate 80 Tuesday night spoke Thursday from the Nebraska Medical Center where he's recovering from his injuries.

Jonathan Saitta was struck by a speeding driver in a construction zone near 32nd Street. The driver kept on going. Amazingly, a broken pelvis seems to be the worst of it for Saitta.

"This is the sorest day. I was happy I got up and walked around with the little walker. It's been pretty rough, pretty lucky though," he said.

Road workers are trained to always keep their eyes on the road. Saitta had just three cones left to set out Tuesday night when he saw the silver Cadillac.

"I seen him. He was hauling; he was going fast. I thought that he was going to rear-end the other car, but at the last minute he tried to miss it and that's when he went at me," Saitta said.

The crash closed the westbound lanes of the interstate. The hit-and-run driver hasn't been found. "I wish the person that hit me would turn themselves in. Sooner or later it will catch up with you, their conscience or whatnot," he said.

His aunt, who is also a boss at the River City Barricade Company, can't believe he's here talking.

"When you stop to think about a human being hit by a car at 55-60 mph, it's not good. Even when you want to think the best, you know, it's gotta be pretty bad," said Cynthia Goff.

Saitta said he wants his story to be a lesson for everyone to slow down when people are working on the road. And a big thank you to the two women who helped him that night, a nurse who stopped and kept him calm, and Denise.

“She's the one that stopped so no one else would run me over," he said.

Omaha Police found the Cadillac abandoned in a neighborhood not far from the 42nd Street exit, but haven't found the driver. The barricade company is offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the driver.

For a guy thrown 20 feet into the air on the interstate, he's fortunate to be talking about it.