Brooklyn hit-and-run victim says despite surveillance video, driver not prosecuted

BUSHWICK (WABC) -- A Brooklyn woman is investigating the hit and run that left her battered, bruised and broken.

She says she knows who did it and is now investigating her own case.

She spent a year recovering from her wounds and recovering evidence.

She even dug up surveillance video showing two angles of when she got hit riding her bike in Bushwick.

Still, no one's been charged with the crime.

Dulcie Canton is finally back on her bike, but it took her almost a year to climb back up. It's understandable the first words she heard after the accident were...

"Is she alive?" Canton said.

There is surveillance video of the accident. Watch the left side of the screen. When she gets hit, she and the bike get thrown to the pavement, and the car just speeds away.

When you watch from a different angle you can see just how fast the car was going just before it hits Canton.

She broke some bones, and, even though she was wearing a helmet, the big problem was: "Had a major brain bleed, a concussion, and the entire night in the hospital they wouldn't give me painkillers or let me sleep. They kept telling me every hour that we might have to medevac you to the city if your brain keeps bleeding," Canton said.

After Canton was hit by the car, horrified neighbors came running, but they did more than just look.

They tracked down the car that hit her, which was parked several blocks away.

The owner's insurance company eventually settled a civil suit with Ms. Canton, but he was never prosecuted.

The woman who answered at Richard Rivera, Jr.'s home said he was not there Tuesday night.

"I don't feel comfortable with the fact that he is still driving, he's living his life, no consequences. That's frightening," Canton said.