Clovis mom searching for driver who hit 15-year-old daughter on bike

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Clovis ma is calling connected the assemblage to assistance find the operator who deed her girl arsenic she biked to school.

On Tuesday morning, 15-year-old Bella Reynaud did hopped connected her motorcycle and near for school.

Normally she would instrumentality the motorcycle way but that greeting she was moving late.

So, she made her mode down Nees.

The thrust usually takes astir 30 minutes but 10 minutes aft she left, Bella called her mom, who picked up successful a panic.

"Immediately erstwhile I saw the telephone ringing my bosom sank due to the fact that I thought 'Oh my gosh, is she okay?' and past it was her connected the telephone and it was 'Mom, I'm okay, but I was successful an accident,' recalled Courtney Reynaud, Bella's mom.

Courtney was disquieted but relieved that Bella was seemingly good and talking.

She rushed retired the doorway without immoderate hesitation to Nees and Renn.

"It astir apt took maine 15 minutes, but it felt similar it took an hour," said Courtney.

When she got there, she recovered Bella surrounded by neighbors, who patched up her insignificant scrapes with set aids, but her motorcycle was divided successful two.

Bella and neighbors told Courtney a antheral successful a acheronian greenish SUV deed the teen and past drove off.

"There was 1 woman, she didn't witnesser him deed her, but she arrived erstwhile she was inactive connected the crushed and her motorcycle was inactive successful the thoroughfare and truthful she saw the conveyance and she saw the antheral get retired and cheque his car to marque definite that it was good and she saw him thrust disconnected without checking connected Bella," Courtney said.

"I'm virtually present with my motorcycle successful 2 pieces, and you're looking astatine your car," Bella said.

Although Bella took a tumble, Courtney believes her gymnastics grooming helped her marque a smoother landing.

"I conscionable made definite to onshore connected my backmost alternatively of connected my limb and conscionable rolled implicit onto my feet and got up arsenic accelerated arsenic I could," Bella said.

If the operator had stopped and exchanged accusation with Bella, Clovis constabulary accidental helium whitethorn person avoided charges.

"If they had stayed determination and fixed their security accusation it would not person been a crime, it would person conscionable been a postulation collision," said Clovis Police Sgt. Abby Padgett.

"As of close present due to the fact that determination were nary injuries were reported to america that would beryllium a misdemeanor deed and tally charge."

When Steven's Bicycles recovered retired astir the crash, they enactment successful a unreserved bid to hole the motorcycle for Bella.

Courtney says she'll astir apt inactive fto Bella motorcycle to schoolhouse but with restrictions.

"Not this week and surely lone connected the trail," Courtney said.

Bella has her ain connection for cyclists and drivers.

"Wear your helmet and ticker wherever you're going," Bella said.

Courtney has posted pictures of the motorcycle and astir the clang online, hoping idiosyncratic has accusation to assistance police.

She says she'll fto the justness strategy instrumentality its people but what she truly wants is the operator to apologize to her daughter.

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