‘Hardworking’ dad on morning commute to painting job loses his hand in ‘devastating’ crash after drunk driver slammed into him on freeway ramp, family says

A “hardworking” Nevada dad on his morning commute to his commercial painting job had to get his hand amputated after it was mangled in a freeway ramp crash caused by a drunk driver, his family and cops say.

It was around 6 a.m. on May 15 when 54-year-old Rogelio Vidal was allegedly hit by Toyota Scion driver Aaron Nelson Hall on a ramp connecting Interstate 11 and Interstate 15, near the “Spaghetti Bowl” freeway interchange in downtown Las Vegas, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

“I felt the hit from the back,” Vidal recounted to the local newspaper. “After the impact, I kind of fainted or something.”…

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