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[Hetzer]

[krarkol]

It's not over yet though!

Case is still on-going and I'm hoping the fact the new solicitors specifically deal with motorcycle accidents, that they'll find some hole in the argument. 50% blame to 20% is a massive difference so if that's the end result then it may just show how incompetent my initial solicitors may be.
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Bandit 600 - deaded

[331X2]

When was the witness' speed sense last calibrated?

[krarkol]

Exactly....but it's my word against theres.

I have a vid of my bike on a dyno and even at about 3k its screaming so I'm gonna be using that to counter his "came screaming past at tremendous speed" claim
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Bandit 600 - deaded

[_Iain_]

Witness speeds are interesting.

I had a guy who claimed to be a biker at the scene quoting me as speeding way over the limit, I told plot I couldn't have been doing any more than 25-30mph at the time. I KNOW i wasn't speeding as I'd come up the hill, just grabbed third gear and then got dazzled so rolled off well before it came on the power as I couldn't see where the fuck I was going.

I can only assume they guess it based on engine speed/pitch, which is bollocks on a bike that physicly wont pull away at less than around 5k revs. Fucking bastard copper tried starting the thing up again aswell after he'd picked it up off the floor despite the huge puddle of fluids underneath it.

Gone way off topic now, but the tl;dr version;

Scumbags.

Have you requested all the accident reports, witness reports & generally all the police data from the collision? Plod will supply them to you at a fee. Check the exact wording, times etc. You'll likely want the hospital report from the accident aswell, so as you can then argue injury based on speed.
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Riding: '07 KTM Duke II, Baotian BT49QT-20 Driving: '88 Volvo 340

[krarkol]

The witness was wearing headphones aswell so everyone makes out that I must have been going for it if he's heard me. In my opinion that just tells me he's not heard my bike clearly as the sound will be distorted my whatever tunes he's playing.

My old solicitors have said they are sending me a copy so I'll definitely be having a look myself. Everyone who has read it have said it basically says im at fault. But when they mention a bit of whats in it I always think they are a bit clueless towards how a bike would be positioned compared to a car.

Annoying this is, they generally say if the front half of the sife of the car is hit, its the person who pulled outs fault. If its the rear half then the person who hae right of way is generally at fault as they are deemed to have been speeding and not stopped in time. Makes sense initially. But that doesnt take into account if the guys booted it to take a chance and it doesnt fit my story as I was heading straight at the drivers side front wing/door until for some reason I swerved. So now the fact I actually performed an evasive manoeuvre might be working against me!

White Dalton have suggested that. They have said I have 2 options. I can pay like 2k for someone to do a crash reconstruction using software which will determine what speed I must have been going to spin a car 180 or I can do a quantum one or something like that which goes off injuries. I didnt break anything but I do have a bruised big toe from clipping it on the car and a continuous muscle pain in my right thigh.

In my head it sounds pretty plausible to have spun that car at a sensible speed. Fully fuelled bandit 600 with a 80-90kg rider hitting the rear driver side wheel of a car already turning right. It probably took the weight from the right of the car and spun it around the axis of the already turned wheels. Ive seen youtube bike vs car collisions at lower speeds that have sent the car off spinning.

Even if I was initially speeding. I know for a fact id have rolled off as soon as ive seen the car waiting to pull out, which was pretty far up the road. I just dont trust car drivers and the fact he'd waited there pretty much the full length of time it took me to travel down the road must have made my gut instinct stare at his front wheels. He must have shot out quick if I have chose to try swerving instead. Part of me must have known that at the distance I was to him, I wouldnt have stopped in time if id used my brakes.
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Bandit 600 - deaded

[_Iain_]

[krarkol]

I don't have 2k...maybe it's time for a bcf charity thread, we all know how popular they are

I'm shit at maths, but using them force calculators online it seems the kinetic energy of 300kg at 30mph is a good few tons...should shift a car easily!

Do I post flyby vid or not? Hmmm
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Bandit 600 - deaded

[_Iain_]

Showed the other half the photo on the first page.

She asked what you had in the boxes in your van to break the bike.


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Riding: '07 KTM Duke II, Baotian BT49QT-20 Driving: '88 Volvo 340

[krarkol]

Hahahahaha!

Btw, here is a video of a bike doing around 30mph managing to spin a car. He hits roughly where I've hit the car that pulled out on me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4uo10z3tZ8
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Bandit 600 - deaded

[Bubbs]

[_Iain_]

The title says it all though!

[krarkol]

I tried that as I was gonna rip the drivers head off

Instead, I stood up, felt a pain shoot up from my leg and crawled off the road like a pussy

True! It did look like he was going 100mph! Very difficult to judge a bikes speed

Here's my baby on the dyno, not bad for a fiver really!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQQdedQAy18
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Bandit 600 - deaded