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A Halifax family is desperately searching for answers after a hit and run left their 15-year-old son injured and alone in the freezing cold.

Vincente Moreira was standing at a bus stop at the corner of Lodge Drive and Bedford Highway at around 8:20 p.m. Tuesday when he was hit by a vehicle. The impact left him with a concussion, a broken collarbone and bruises.

“I don’t really remember. I just remember waking up in a puddle and being lifted up by an ambulance,” Vincente told Global News.

The driver fled the scene, leaving Vincente lying on the ground in -10 C weather. His parents, Miguel Moreira and Janita Rodriguez, say they were in shock when they learned what happened.

Miguel was driving home when he got an urgent call from his wife, telling him to come home immediately.

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