An engaged couple from Langley is offering a $10,000 reward for information on a hit-and-run that left the groom-to-be with a brain injury a month before their wedding.

Michael Bennett, 29, was walking with a group of friends down Sun Peaks Road outside Kamloops when a pickup truck veered onto the shoulder and struck him on July 19.

“Eventually he just got right on top of us,” Bennett told CTV News. “He was right on the shoulder so where do you go? So I got hit. Next thing I remember is waking up in the hospital.”

The driver fled the scene, leaving Bennett badly injured on the side of the road.

He suffered a fractured skull, pelvis and clavicle, as well as a brain injury – potentially putting his August wedding in jeopardy.

Bennett’s fiancée Kaily Stevens said it’s amazing he wasn’t killed.

"The police tell us he was thrown about 10 feet horizontally and 25 feet vertically on the road. And the truck hit him at about 60 kilometres an hour,” Stevens said.

After a week at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, Bennett is now back home in Langley.

The couple is concerned the driver hasn’t been caught, so they’re posting a large reward for information that leads to a conviction.

While both say they forgive the driver, they’re concerned the person behind the wheel is still on the road.

“Everyone makes mistakes,” said Bennett. “I didn’t die. So I definitely forgive them, I just wish it’s not a case of maybe they do the same thing and they hit somebody else and that person doesn’t live.”

RCMP in Kamloops are also urging the driver to come forward.

“It’s a very tragic event, anytime we have something of this nature where someone is hurt as a result of a collision,” said Cpl. Jason Epp with Kamloops RCMP. “To run from the scene and hide? That just makes it even more tragic.”

Police said the truck involved is likely a dark-coloured pickup truck, possibly a Chevrolet S-10 or Ford Ranger. The vehicle likely has noticeable damage to its front end.

Despite Bennett’s injuries, the couple is still hoping to go ahead with their wedding plans at the end of next month.

“Am I going to be able to walk down the aisle properly? Am I going to be able to hug her on our wedding day? I don’t know,” said Bennett.

“Right now it's a lot of praying for healing and hoping, knowing it may not happen. I’m trying to come to terms with [the fact] it may not be the way we originally thought it would be, but I’m really excited to get married.”

Mounties said they have received several tips in the case but are hoping for more. Anyone with information is asked to call the Kamloops detachment at 250-314-1800 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Lambert and Williams Law Corporation in Victoria, which is handling the $10,000 reward, is also accepting tips at 250-589-2174.