"He ran over me, I broke my leg and my arm," said 8-year-old Quartez Brazzel told News 5.
Quartez has a broken femur and broken arm.
He had surgery on his leg Sunday but is glad to be home.
"They put rods right here in my leg, they come all the way up to here," Brazil said, sitting in a wheelchair in his living room.
Surgeons put two rods in his leg from his knee to his hip.
Quartez was having fun at a family cookout Saturday at Kerruish Park when he was run over by a dirt bike on the sidewalk.
"I was opening my chips and I was looking down at the ground, and I saw two wheels coming at me," Brazil said.
The third grader at Cleveland Arts and Social Science Academy said while he was on the ground in pain, it didn't seem real. He thought he was going to die.
"I was thinking I was dreaming," he said. "When my mom came over I started crying and then she started crying, she dropped on her knees and started hugging me."
"Scared, wondering how a person could just hurt a child any person and just ride off," said Quartez’s mom, Denaye Hatcher.
The 12-year-old dirt bike rider later turned himself in to police.
Quartez's mom said she feared the worst.
"He could have died. I thank God that's the only thing that happened, that's a lot, but I thank God he's still here," she said. "Something needs to be done about these dirt bikes, something has to be done."
For now, Quartez plans to watch cartoons and the Cavs.
But, he can't get stop thinking about the roar of that dirt bike.
"I don't like dirt bikes, they're too fast, because people get hurt," he said.
Dirt bikes and ATV’s are illegal on city streets.
