A DISTRAUGHT commuter has appealed for a driver to come forward after she was left lying in the road.

Health care assistant Selina Hamilton was riding home from a shift at York Hospital around 8.25pm on Sunday a black car pulled out in front of her in Burton Stone Lane, she said.

The 20-year-old said the car pulled out from Shipton Street and left her unable to avoid the collision, which left her with a badly injured knee and foot.

Police are trying to trace the driver and have appealed for information.

Mrs Hamilton, of Slesser Road, Acomb, said: "I don't know if I hit the back of her or skidded in the road but I fell off, and she looked at me without getting out of her car and drove off.

"I had my headlights on so she couldn't have missed me.

"She stopped and looked towards me but carried on going."

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The damaged moped

Mrs Hamilton has been riding mopeds since she was 16 and had owned her Digita 50cc bike for only two months before the incident wrote it off.

She relies on it to travel backwards and forwards to shifts at York Hospital and will now have to resort to catching buses, which she says will be impossible in the middle of the night.

"I'm sore, annoyed and angry they just drove off without speaking to me," added Mrs Hamilton.

"I could have been seriously hurt.

"If the driver stopped we could've sorted it out but I'm shocked she's left me and didn't bother checking to see if I was okay.

"I want people to be more careful and look out for people on bikes. This has made me more scared of cars on the road and I will be worried about getting back on my moped now."

A spokeswoman for North Yorkshire Police said inquiries were under way after the incident left the woman "shocked" and "distressed".

Can you help?

North Yorkshire Police ask anyone who witnessed the collision or who has information to phone the control room on 101, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111, quoting reference 12150148292.