'I should have been safe on a pavement' - woman recalls horrific hire e-bike crash

'I should have been safe on a pavement' - woman recalls horrific hire e-bike crash8 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleTom EdwardsLondon transport and environment correspondentBBCSandy Peters is still suffering from injuries caused when she was crashed into by a Forest bike rider last OctoberSandy Peters doesn't remember anything at all about the crash itself. She was walking on the pavement with her son just outside Grove Park in south London on his birthday last October, when she was hit by a speeding Forest dockless hire e-bike. Her face was smashed into a wall and she received very serious and complex injuries. She broke her nose, cheekbones and her teeth."I have no recollection of impact of what happened," she tells BBC London."It struck me on the right hand side. It was so fast that I have no protective injuries. My face smashed into the brick wall."WARNING: This story contains pictures of facial injuries that some readers may find distressing.The experience for Sandy was terrifying. She recalls lying seriously injured on the floor with "this strange sound coming from my mouth, alongside an ocean of blood, which just was pouring out of my nose and my mouth. I could not breathe"."I had this feeling like a heavy metal grate pressing down on my face.. I was telling myself to get up, but I couldn't get up."Passers-by dialled 999 with both police and ambulances called to the scene. Sandy says paramedics then had to put a tube down her throat three times to suck out blood before she was considered safe to be moved."I was taken to the local hospital, where I remained for four hours... and then from there, I was blue-lighted to another hospital where I remained for seven days," she explains.Sandy is still suffering from the effects of the crash. She has post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and her teeth still need fixing, which could cost about £10,000. She doesn't know how she will p...