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A CYCLIST says she is lucky to be alive after a hit-and-run driver left her battered and bruised by the side of the road.
Supermarket shelf stacker Sharon Bailey, 45, was riding along the cycle track near Ruston Sports & Social Club, in Newark Road, Lincoln, when she was hit by a car and thrown over the handlebars of her bike.