Woman struck by dirt bike in O’Hara trying to find driver

week to improve her balance.

“I really had to hold onto Richard when I was walking. When I could go down the steps by myself, it was a big deal,” she said, adding that she still clutches handrails tightly.

Doctors gave her an anti-seizure drug and prescribed a pain killer, but Ms. Jai forgoes such medication. Instead, she relies on prayer, cold cloths, acupressure massage and other natural methods to relieve the pain.

Perhaps the worst wounds for her and Mr. Krepski are not physical.

“For the first few days after the accident, I kept replaying the image of Janet lying on the ground,” Mr. Krepski said. “It was like an image I couldn’t get out of my head.”

The police were unable to find the driver of the dirt bike, according to the report filed by O’Hara Officer Codi Walker. James R. Farringer, superintendent of the township police department, said he could not comment on the case because it is under investigation.

Ms. Jai bought an ad in the Fox Chapel Herald announcing the reward last month. She knows $100 is a meager amount for a reward but said that is all she can afford. She works as a writer and owns a self-publishing business called Vision and Values and is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University.

She wants to find the driver to keep him off the streets so that he does not hit someone else. She also wants reimbursement for her medical and personal expenses, including the alpaca sweater she was wearing, which was a gift from Mr. Krepski. Doctors had to cut it open at the hospital when they treated her.

Ms. Jai asks anyone with information about the accident to contact her at jai@vision-and-values.com.

“I’d like to look at him and see who did this to me,” she said. “It’s kind of a big thing when someone almost kills you.”