A UAlbany student who was hit by a dirt bike in Albany is breathing on her own tonight. She is off the ventilator, and out of a medically induced coma.

It’s good news but slow progress, and the biker that hit her is still on the loose. Her family is frustrated and heartbroken.

18-year-old Alexa Kropf was supposed to be getting ready to go home to Long Island after her freshman year at UAlbany. Instead, she’s in critical condition at Albany Med.

Last weekend, her life was changed in an instant.

Police say a man speeding on an illegal dirt bike had been weaving in and out of groups of people in the street before he smashed into Alexa on Hudson Avenue in Albany, an area where many students live.

Cellphone video shows the chaotic scene and a crowd of young people surrounding Alexa right after she was hit.

Nearby security video shows bikes on nearby Ontario Friday night.

Just before the crash, one went the wrong way on the one-way street, up towards Hudson, where the crash happened. Witnesses say the biker who hit Alexa came up Hudson the wrong way on that one-way street.

The problem of illegal dirt bikes and ATVs speeding noisily through city streets, riding on sidewalks, has been going on for years.

The Albany County Sheriff’s Office recently seized almost a dozen motorbikes.

“It’s starting up already. It’s been going on since the weather broke and here we have a young woman fighting for her life in the hospital as a result of these people with a depraved indifference, terrorizing the communities,” Sheriff Craig Apple said on Thursday.

It’s been a week of almost unbearable pain, heartbreak, and worry for her family.

Her father, Jim Kropf, said Sunday night, “Even though it is progress, the road ahead is EXCRUCIATINGLY long. Not easy AT ALL looking at your child lying in bed with her head half shaved, 50 staples showing in her head from where they cut her skull open two times. Leg wrapped up with a rod in it. Pin in her pelvis. 5 broken ribs. Feeding tube and everything else she is hooked up to. I’m absolutely sick to my stomach and at the same time, hoping the police catch the piece of garbage responsible.”

Here is the GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/alexa-kropf-hit-and-run

A GoFundMe set up to help Alexa’s recovery has raised nearly $90,000 so far.