Since being the victim of the hit and run in December last year Mr Pearce has been left permanently scarred, and says he was given few answers. He suffered from a compound fracture to his femur after being struck by a car at the intersection of Carrathool Street and Illiliwa Street while riding his motorcycle in December.

Mr Pearce said he was hit so hard he was pushed a full five meters down Curtin Street, and if it wasn't for sheer luck, he may not have survived.

"Waking up covered in blood thinking that you're dreaming and realising that you're not and thinking that you're dying is pretty hard," he said.

He is thankful for the swift actions of a neighbor who saw the crash and quickly called an ambulance before getting his mum.

"Mum thought I was dead. She walked down and all she saw was me on the ground bleeding and my shoes separate from me."

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Four months on, Mr Pearce is back on his feet and is happy to have returned to work, although he still has difficulty walking. Aside from the 12 permanent scars covering one leg, he and mother Chrissy say they have been left with a "lingering feeling of disgust" at the callous actions of the driver and passengers who fled the scene.

"They all ditched me, they saw me there, they saw me dying and they didn't bother coming up to see if I was OK," Kieran said.

"That they can just hit someone and run off that's not fair at all, they should not be able to get away with it and I don't want other people to experience what I have been through."

For Chrissy, she said police left them in the dark with the progress of the investigation despite numerous attempts for information.

"But I was never been able to talk to anyone. They were either on leave, on holidays, or had been transferred," she said.

Murrumbidgee Police District Inspector Nick Seddon said while processes are in place for following up with the victim and people involved, it may have been the case things "slipped through the cracks."

"If we've failed to (follow up) in this case, then I do sincerely apologise for that," he said.

"Investigations have resulted in an arrest, and will be coming before Blacktown Local Court on the 31^st of May."

The arrest was made in Penrith on April 13, where the 29-year-old man was arrested for two other outstanding warrants.

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Griffith police had listed the man as wanted, and was charged by Penrith police on their behalf. In relation to the hit and run, he was charged with causing grievous bodily harm by negligent act, and not giving particulars to injured person, and driving while disqualified. The other warrants involved driving while disqualified charges.

Inspector Seddon said the driver is currently disqualified until 2050, but was unable to comment further on the specific details of the incident as it was before court.

While happy the driver had been arrested, and grateful for the apology proffered by police, she is still "disappointed" at what she sees as a lack of action on Griffith police's behalf.

"It's good the police are recognising what we've gone through, but it shouldn't have happened," Chrissy said.

"It's too little too late. We shouldn't have been treated like that."

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