Dania Zaheer has a broken pelvis, hip, arm, femur, and countless other bones after the Houston Police Department said a driver hit her near the Galleria and then took off.
Speaking to Eyewitness News from the hospital, Zaheer said her injuries might not be the worst of it. The 25-year-old said she moved to Houston from Pakistan on a student visa, hoping to graduate with a master’s degree in business administration from North American University.
However, she’s in Texas alone, with no family or other supporting figures. Now, even once the hospital discharges her, she’s left facing uncertainty.
“I had a really bright future, and now, I can’t see anything,” Zaheer said with cuts and fractures obscuring her vision. “My university professors – when they met me, (they) even told me, ‘You are the kind of person we want to hire.'”
Zaheer has been in the city on her own since the start of the semester. She said last Thursday, she was crossing the street at Westheimer and Sage at about 8 p.m. when her memory went black. According to HPD, a person behind the wheel of a vehicle hit her and drove off.