Margaret Scaldwell, was placed in a medically induced coma after being hit by an e-bike. The driver Kian Monks, a former Wigan Athletic footballer, was going at 40mph when he crashed into Margaret as she was on her way to her daughter’s house.

Monks has now been sentenced at Bolton Crown Court to two years and three months having earlier pled guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving and driving without a helmet or licence and fleeing the scene.

Margaret, 71, was thrown into the air and the impact knocked out all her teeth and broke both her arms, pelvis, spine and 19 ribs and gave her a brain injury.

Monks’ passenger Joel Pilling, was given a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to dangerous driving and aiding and abetting Monks to cause serious injury while driving a defective bike which he had lent him.

Now Margaret – who also needed 10 steel plates fitted in her smashed face – is calling on the Government to clamp down on modified or high-powered e-bike riders who put vulnerable pedestrians like her in hospital.

She said: “I was enjoying my retirement when everything changed in an instant. The daily pain now I endure is excruciating and never ending.

“These riders need to have a deterrent and at the minute there is none. So the Government has to act. There are so many things that I can no longer do.”

Nearly two years on and Margaret is still living with the effects of the crash with weekly appointments including intensive physio, speech and language and brain therapy.

Robin Patey, Principal Partner in the Road Traffic Accidents department at Express Solicitors added: “Margaret continues to live with the horrific injuries caused in this crash and is virtually housebound and will likely need care for the rest of her life.

“We have seen a sharp increase in cases of pedestrians being badly injured by e-bikes across the North West. Often they are travelling at the same speed as cars but on pavements with entire communities now blighted and people afraid to leave their front doors.

“There is no robust deterrent to stop these illegal e-biker riders causing havoc on the roads. Urgent action needs to be taken by the government to battle this growing problem.”

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