I'm not dead yet.

A 29-year-old Larry Green was hit by a car at 9 p.m. on Monday. Paramedics pronounced Green dead, a trooper called his family and Green was taken to the county morgue, located at the jail in Louisburg, North Carolina.

Almost two hours after the accident, Trooper T.L. Hunt went into the morgue to met with the county coroner, J.B. Perdue. When the two unzipped the body bag to document the man's injuries, they found Green was breathing, though just barely.

"I had to look twice myself just to make sure it was there, that's how subtle it was," Perdue told the Raleigh News Observer.

A trooper raced back to the family's house to tell grieving relatives that Green was alive.

Green is in critical condition and the county attorney's office is investigating how the mistake was made.

Franklin County attorney Darnell Batton said the county's medical director has suspended those who were involved in the incident.