TONAWANDA, NY — It's been almost a week since a driver hit a man in a wheelchair in the Town of Tonawanda, then drove away.
Police are still looking for the driver.
"Kevin is a very to himself kind of guy he don't like, he doesn't like the fact that all this is getting around." said Darren Van Every, who feels it's important to talk about what happened to his friend, Kevin Sheridan last Friday evening.
"The person got away the person did not stop, you know you hit something when you hit one of these wheelchairs," Van Every said.
Sheridan gets around in a motorized wheelchair.
Town of Tonawanda police say he may have been sideswiped by a hit and run driver on Vulcan Street near the GM plant. Van Every says his friend was on his way to the store.
"He said the accident, when it happened, he goes, he don't remember the next thing he woke up he was in the hospital," Van Every said.
Sheridan has been in critical condition at ECMC.
Since the incident, friends of Sheridan's launched a Go Fund Me page, updating his condition, saying he has 10 cracked ribs and bruising. And, that he needs a new wheelchair.
2 On Your Side reached out the organizers of the page, who say money raised will go to Sheridan's medical costs. But the big development -- a family in Hamburg has donated a motorized wheelchair to Sheridan.
REPORTER: How reassuring does that make you feel as his friend?
"Pretty good," Van Every said, "it's one less worry he's got to worry about."
Darren is working on a get well card for his friend, which has been signed by many people in the housing complex they live in.
Darren says that get well card will soon be taken over to the Riverside Library on Tonawanda Street so more people can sign it. He says the library is one place Kevin likes go to.
As for the ongoing investigation, if you have any information about this incident, you're asked to call Tonawanda Police.