Mother pleads for driver who hit her son on e-scooter to come forward

A driver who hit a teenager riding an e-scooter before leaving him in a heap on the road has been urged to come forward by the boy’s family.

The 16-year-old, Jamie*, was riding the scooter with a friend on the back when he was hit by a white hatchback at the intersection of Mount Auburn Rd and Oxford St in Berala, western Sydney, about 5.20pm on July 8.

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CCTV footage of the incident shows the car rolling through a stop sign and into the intersection before slamming into the scooter and sending the teenager into the air. His friend managed to get off and avoid being hit.

The car left while Jamie was lying on the ground.

His family raced from their nearby home after the boy’s friend told them he had been badly injured.

“Seeing him in that state was very, very, very scary,” the boy’s mother, Sam*, told 7NEWS.com.au.

“He was vomiting everywhere, he had brain injuries, a fractured skull.

“He had blood all over his body, some, you know, scraped some bruises everywhere and was complaining, obviously, of chest pain and head pain.”

In a panicked state, the family decided not to call triple zero and instead take him to hospital themselves. Sam said it would come back to haunt them.

Despite more than two weeks passing since the incident, Jamie is still in excruciating amount of pain.

Damage to his neck means he can’t turn his head, which is constantly aching from any stimuli — including small sounds such as someone typing on their phone — due to a serious concussion.

The pain has meant he can’t sleep through the night and continues to suffer from blurred vision while he’s in and out of hospital to continue getting tests.

“He’s not coping mentally, he’s not coping physically,” Sam said.

“He’s in a lot of pain, spending the time that he’s not in hospital or getting scans done on the bed.”

Police investigation

While he may have gotten to hospital faster, failing to notify triple zero meant the family had to reach out to police to launch an investigation the following morning.

Sam and her family have since taken to door-knocking for anyone with information to help with inquiries into the incident.

Their efforts helped them get CCTV footage which was passed on to police, but Sam says they’ve heard “nothing”.

“We have not once heard back from the constable investigating,” she said.

“We have gone to the police station. We have left him emails. We have even asked for a different link to upload more vision.

“Every time we contact, they say ‘he’s not in, he’ll call you back’.

“They’ve taken message after message after message, email after email after email.”

NSW Police told 7NEWS.com.au it could not comment further as it was an ongoing investigation.

In response the family have released the footage and called on the driver, or anyone else with information, to do the right thing and come forward.

* Names withheld for privacy