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DALLAS - It started as harmless fun - a teenager playing with a remote-controlled toy.

Minutes later, the same teen was hit by a truck and left for dead, in the middle of the street.

He's in serious condition, as police try to track down the hit-and-run driver.

Broken ribs, a fractured neck, and a fractured skull - just some of the serious injuries 19-year-old Johnny Borrago is recovering from at an area hospital.

The Dallas teen was at his uncle's house in Forney, playing with a remote-control car in the street.

Moments later, he was lying there bloodied, begging for help.

"I didn't think he was going to actually run me over with the truck," he said.

In tears and in horrible pain, 19-year-old Johnny Borrago took us through the night.

Late Tuesday, he was playing with a remote-control car on a dead-end street at his uncle's house, when he says a white Chevy pickup clipped his toy, then circled back towards him.

"I walked in the street, he started revving his engine and he just gunned it," said Johnny.

The teen was dragged a few feet on the pavement before he was run over by the truck.

"I got on my knees yelling for help, checking if anybody come outside, and nobody came outside."

He somehow managed to crawl and fight his way back to his uncle's house where he collapsed at the front door.

"When he hit the ground I saw quite a bit of blood, so I knew something was wrong," his uncle said.

His uncle called police and his panicked family thought the worst.

"I don't know why this happened, he's not an animal, he's a human being - he's a kid," his mother said.

A kid left broken in the street, like the toy he was playing with.

"I don't see how somebody could do something like that, try to kill somebody you don't know," said Johnny.

The suspect's vehicle is a white Chevy Silverado truck, possibly a 2000 to 2003 model. It has a black brush guard on the front of it and the victim says it looked like a 4-by-4, or off-road version because it had big tires.

Anyone with information on this crime is asked to call police.

E-mail ccivale@wfaa.com.