'Nobody stopped to ask if I was alright': Walsall College student knocked from bike in hit and run

Aaron Bates, aged 18 and from Pelsall, Walsall was lucky to escape serious injuries in the collision, sustaining cuts and bruises only but was shaken up by the incident.

It happened on Monday evening at around 5.45pm as the Walsall College student was riding his bright green-coloured bike along Little Aston Road in Aldridge towards the Fairlawns Hotel.

He told the Express & Star: "I was on my way to work, there was absolutely no cars on the other side of the road. The next thing I knew I felt a hit on my arm and I just went flying all over the place.

"I didn't know what was going on.

"I have got cuts and bruises to my ankle and a bruise to my arm. I was very lucky it wasn't more serious.

"My light also came off my bike."

The teen, who works as a pot washer at the hotel and is studying at college to be a chef, did not see much of the vehicle because it came from behind him.

But he managed to recover the silver wing mirror which was knocked off in the collision and after researching the serial number has found that it comes from a Vauxhall.

However, Aaron is also stunned that the driver of another vehicle who arrived at the scene shortly after did not stop to see if was okay.

He added: "When it happened I was quite shocked.

"It shook me up quite a lot really.

"The car just disappeared. he must have known he had hit me but he didn't stop.

"He had got to have been going 60mph and it is only a 40mph road.

"But I was absolutely astonished nobody on the road stopped to help or ask if I was alright.

"There was another car which just drove straight past."

A West Midlands Police spokeswoman said: "We were called around 11.20pm on January 4 but the incident happened at 5.45pm. The victim was riding down Little Aston Road towards the Fairlawns Hotel.

"There was no CCTV on the road for us to check and no witnesses.

"The only information we have had was that it was a silver Vauxhall involved which knocked him causing damage to his bike.

"The case is not closed but we are waiting for new information we could look into."

Anyone with any details should contact the force on 101 quoting incident reference 2456 of January 4.