‘Tis the season to be jolly, but for hit-and-run victim Staci Callander the true reason for this festive season has been all but knocked out of her.The preschool teacher was left lying in the street, hit by a man on a motorcycle who ignored a stop sign.The accident left her with a deep laceration to her right foot the wound took 20 sutures to close.Ms Callander, who teaches at the School House Nursery in Devonshire, was travelling up Chaingate Hill on her 50cc motor scooter at 8.20am on December 10.When she reached the junction she noticed two motorcycles travelling in the opposite direction.One of the riders ignored the stop sign where the road heads into Green Acres, sped up and ploughed right into her.Yesterday, Ms Callander told The Royal Gazette she wasn’t sure if they bumped heads when she fell off her bike, and that she blacked out for a minute or two.“The next thing I remember, I went to get up not knowing my foot was injured and I fell back down,” she said.“At that point I looked up and saw the man who ran into me getting back on his bike. He had the nerve to look back at me as he sped off, without care or compassion, leaving me lying in the street.”Now instead of celebrating this Christmas season she’s left on crutches in pain with a long recovery period ahead of her.And while she will be compensated for time off the job, it won’t cover the entire period.Ms Callander believes it may take as long as two months to get back up on her feet without the use of crutches, which means she won’t be back to teach preschoolers when classes resume in the New Year.“This reckless and deadbeat guy has caused me great injury,” she said. “What I can’t understand is how this person can sleep at night. I know I can’t from the flashbacks that I have each night when I close my eyes.”She was helped by the rider of the second motorcycle who heard her scream and turned around to assist.Ms Callander issued a big “thank you” to the man she knows only as Randy who called the ambulance that rushed her to King Edward VII Memorial for treatment and others who stopped to come to her rescue.“I want to let people know enough is enough, too many lives are being lost on Bermuda’s roads, too many accidents out of pure stupidity.“Nobody’s got any respect anymore. It has left me with a bad taste in my mouth, and I’m not sure if I’ll ever ride a motor scooter in Bermuda ever again.”And while she is thankful to the Bermuda Police Service for releasing an appeal for anyone with information to assist she believes more must be done to reverse what she describes as a disturbing trend of increasing recklessness.“How could anyone be so callous?” she asked. “The broader issue is why are people in Bermuda choosing to remain silent when they see something they know is just plain wrong?“People have got to start speaking up and more needs to be done when it comes to promoting road safety.”A great deal of effort is made to get people to stop drinking and driving however there needs to also be a public awareness campaign focusing on reckless driving and road rage, Ms Callander said.“This bad experience has ruined Christmas for me and my family,” she said. “I’m feeling disgusted, angry and very hurt. To think that someone could be so callous as to leave a woman injured lying in the street through no fault of her own speaks for itself.”She continued: “My mother arrives from Scotland [tonight] and I can’t even get around to do anything of substance with her during the Christmas season.“My fiance is most upset and very angry we’re supposed to be moving house in February and I’m on crutches, in pain and it hurts just to put my foot down.”Doctors have warned Ms Callander she could be in recovery for eight weeks or more.With a wedding planned for April she’s praying she doesn’t have to hop or limp down the aisle.