'Leaving me for dead -- it's just not right in my book'
When the car sped off, he couldn't help but feel helpless. His legs were broken, his hip shattered and his jaw busted in two places.
"I just remember trying to move, and there was no part of me that would move," he said. "I was just glued, super-glued to the asphalt."
Grodzicki was out with his landscaping crew along a road in Bellevue when he stepped out of his truck and was hit by a car.
He remembers waking up in the hospital.
"At that point, I knew I was hurt pretty bad. So I was very scared," he said.
The force of the accident was so powerful, it knocked Grodzicki out of his shoes. Doctors aren't sure if this father of two will ever have full use of his right leg.
But Grodzicki remains determined to prove them wrong, and to find the driver who hit him and didn't even stop.
"Leaving me for dead -- it's just not right in my book," he said.
"Just to drive off is just so wrong," said Grodzicki's fiancee Joann Schurman. "I mean, that's being a coward, total coward."
"I'm not out for vengeance," Grodzicki said. "I just, you know, I'm never going to have any closure."
Authorities are looking for a newer model, gray-colored, mid-size sedan in connection to the case. A $2,000 reward is being offered for leading to the arrest and conviction of the driver at fault.
Anyone with information on the case is urged to contact Bellevue police immediately.