A Los Angeles County woman is calling for more regulations on electric scooters after being hospitalized

Every day is a constant reminder for Nicole Stevens that her life has been turned upside down.

“I used to sew. I embroidered as a hobby,” she said. “I can’t do it because of my hand. I can’t. It’s hard to cook. It’s hard to do even simple things.”

Last December, Stevens was hit by a man riding an electric scooter on a sidewalk in West Hollywood. She only remembers that a month later she woke up in the hospital after doctors put her in a coma. She had brain swelling and a fractured skull.

“I thought maybe I had been attacked because I was covered in bruises,” Stevens said.

The man on the scooter drove away and has not yet been found. Stevens’ friend said he was driving at least 20 mph on Santa Monica Boulevard when he hit her and threw her backwards onto the sidewalk.

“My husband tells me that when he arrived at the hospital, the doctor stopped him at the door of the intensive care unit and said, ‘Do you really want this? Because it’s going to be really hard and she might not be recording it with a microphone,’” Stevens recalled.

Nine months later and over $500,000 in medical bills, he is still recovering. However, another electric scooter victim did not suffer the same fate.

Donny Kim was killed a little over a week ago in Koreatown when he stepped on the sidewalk and a woman on an electric scooter hit him. The surveillance camera footage shows him falling to the ground and hitting his head on the concrete. He just left the restaurant with his wife.

“It’s the same story,” Stevens said. “Electric scooter impact, head injury and death or death.”

Stevens says there needs to be more accountability and regulation of e-scooters in cities and across the state to prevent such tragedies.

“You can’t flood the streets with them,” she said. “My brain was changed forever and that woman lost her husband. What will you tell them?”

Electric scooter laws vary from state to state. Delaware, Pennsylvania and Idaho banned them from appearing on the streets. The Los Angeles Police Department is still trying to find the woman who hit Kim.