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“I saw a car flying direct to me,” Christian Ibarra said from his hospital bed at Kaiser Vacaville. “He only stopped when he hit me and he hit everything around me.”

Caltrans and the California Highway Patrol confirmed that a contract crew highway worker is suffering major injuries after being hit by a carjacking suspect in an SUV that entered an active construction zone.

JOB DUTIES: Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement, repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow

Sean johnson could barely remember his mother, yet he never stopped imagining her coming back into his life. >> i remember being there, thinking of like she's got to -- she's going to return sooner or later, you know, she has to, you know, walk through that door. >> but it was not to be. one august day in 2004, a highway worker in rural washington noticed something strange just off the road. it was a shallow grave. investigators recovered skeletal remains. dental records revealed it was sandi. >> i was in the 7th grade. i just remember coming home from school, and asking my dad, you know, why ...

Thinking of like she's got to -- she's going to return sooner or later, you know, she has to, you know, walk through that door. >> but it was not to be. one august day in 2004, a highway worker in rural washington noticed something strange just off the road. it was a shallow grave. investigators recovered skeletal remains. dental records revealed it was sandi. >> i was in the 7th grade. i just remember coming home from school, and asking my dad, you know, why is there, you know, reporters trying to talk to us or whatever. my dad explained to us that they had found her remains. >> finally, sand...