A crash involving an electric bike nearly took the life of Janet Stotko, a Hastings, Minnesota, woman, last summer.
"I remember walking out the front door of my house, I set my Apple Watch and I left, and that's the last thing I remember," Stotko said.
She was unresponsive when officers arrived. Laying beside her was the e-bike that struck her from behind at 25 mph. It happened on a sidewalk just blocks from her home, and left her with a traumatic brain injury.
The 14-year-old rider was too young to legally operate it.
"I will never taste or smell again. My ear hasn't stopped ringing. I have an open orbital roof fracture," she said.
Stotko spent three weeks in the hospital and will never fully recover.
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"There just hasn't been any accountability," she said.
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