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Dailey87
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PostPosted: 17:27 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: I got owned :( Reply with quote
Had my first real off today.

Stopped at some traffic lights in gateshead/newcastle area and then got hit from behind by some dozy bint who wasn't paying attention.

Got taken to hospital so don't know how bad my thundercat is but apparently there was petrol and oil over the road so i'm not holding my breath.

A big thanks to the fellow biker guy from the joiners who picked my bike up if you're on here!

Luckly i'm not too badly hurt! nasty whiplash and as bruised as a volleyed peach but nothing broken so i guess i'm a pretty lucky guy and my gear did it's job.
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PostPosted: 17:31 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm not far for there where did it happen?

Get well soon mate!
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PostPosted: 17:40 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Enjoy the compensation.
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PostPosted: 18:03 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was talking to a kid today who got £82k in compo after he got hit by a car. He was mashed up pretty bad though...
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PostPosted: 18:12 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sounds like you got off lightly old chap. Glad to hear you ok. Bet you will look in your mirrors at junctions from now on tho. GWS
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PostPosted: 18:45 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Beelzebob wrote:
Sounds like you got off lightly old chap. Glad to hear you ok. Bet you will look in your mirrors at junctions from now on tho. GWS


So he can do what exactly? Proceed onto the junction and get hit from there? Sounds like a brill idea tbh.
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PostPosted: 18:47 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
GF-91 wrote:
Beelzebob wrote:
Sounds like you got off lightly old chap. Glad to hear you ok. Bet you will look in your mirrors at junctions from now on tho. GWS


So he can do what exactly? Proceed onto the junction and get hit from there? Sounds like a brill idea tbh.


I think he meant from the experience. My cousin was rear ended and that whole day I heard I was always checking in my mirrors at junctions out of paranoia.
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PostPosted: 18:57 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ouch, sorry to hear that. I hope everything heals up, and said dozy bint doesn't suddenly claim that you reversed into her.

This is the only scenario that really bothers me, as there's so little you can do about it. I keep on the brake, stay in gear and watch the mirrors until there's a couple of cars stopped behind me. And that reminds me, I've got a flashing brake modulator and a LED light to fit as well - they're not doing any good sat in the Box-O-Bits in the garage.
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PostPosted: 19:14 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
I've got a flashing brake modulator and a LED light to fit as well


Would that be road legal? Having a flashing brake light? Seems a good idea but I seem to remember the flashing rear tail light which cyclists carry is not meant to be road legal either?
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PostPosted: 19:22 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
RichieZX6R wrote:
I'm not far for there where did it happen?

Get well soon mate!


here where the silver honda jazz is. On the A184 on my way back to middlesbrough.

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I just heard screeching of tyres and then i was in the air. Don't remember much else until i was strapped into the spinal board. There was a lot of police around and i could hear her saying that "she hadn't been able to stop in time" so i'm guessing they will have a record of it so she can't say i rolled backwards into her or something!
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PostPosted: 19:28 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Glad you're ok mate, any news on the bike ?

Nothing a nice compensation cheque can't fix I'd imagine Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 19:39 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Glad to hear your ok and hope your bikes not to badly trashed.get well soon Sad
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PostPosted: 19:54 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
How did the bike perform on the crash test?
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PostPosted: 20:27 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hope you get yourself and the bike fixed soon.
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PostPosted: 20:31 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dailey87 wrote:
RichieZX6R wrote:
I'm not far for there where did it happen?

Get well soon mate!


here where the silver honda jazz is. On the A184 on my way back to middlesbrough.

Google maps link

I just heard screeching of tyres and then i was in the air. Don't remember much else until i was strapped into the spinal board. There was a lot of police around and i could hear her saying that "she hadn't been able to stop in time" so i'm guessing they will have a record of it so she can't say i rolled backwards into her or something!


Bloody hell man, thats the Stadium junction isnt it, the very same junction a biker was killed about 18m back after some prick hit him in their car!

If you had of ridden another 2 miles, you would have past our place (Just beyond the black bull bridge!!)

Get well soon, and hope you manage to give the silly bint a slap in the future!!
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PostPosted: 20:50 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
That is also the same road where a bloke died trying to help a biker who'd been hit by a car. Got out his car and to help him up and another car hit him and he died - the biker lived though. This happened not too long ago and was in the Chronicle. I live a few miles away from where you got hit. Really don't like that road, speed camera/s, frequent road works, lots of lights/crossings and worst of all taxi drivers.
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PostPosted: 20:53 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
carlosthejackal wrote:
I was talking to a kid today who got £82k in compo after he got hit by a car. He was mashed up pretty bad though...


What a thoroughlly useful piece of information..
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PostPosted: 20:55 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
HisInfernalDRZ wrote:
That is also the same road where a bloke died trying to help a biker who'd been hit by a car. Got out his car and to help him up and another car hit him and he died - the biker lived though. This happened not too long ago and was in the Chronicle. I live a few miles away from where you got hit. Really don't like that road, speed camera/s, frequent road works, lots of lights/crossings and worst of all taxi drivers.


Never ending accidents it seems!

The road has never been left alone it seems for the past 10 years, always something being dug up (like whitemarepool - into its 3rd year!!!)

best of all, I have to ride/drive it twice a day to get to work and back!!!
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PostPosted: 21:08 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jim Mc wrote:

Would that be road legal? Having a flashing brake light? Seems a good idea but I seem to remember the flashing rear tail light which cyclists carry is not meant to be road legal either?


Wouldn't be legal. And certainly an MOT failure under "emits other than a steady red light".

Don't think LED bulbs are strictly legal either.

All the best

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PostPosted: 21:41 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
GF-91 wrote:
So he can do what exactly? Proceed onto the junction and get hit from there? Sounds like a brill idea tbh.


Er... So that, if it looks like you are going to be rear ended, then you can assess whether there is a way out in front of you, or to the side, or you have a chance to drop the bike and do a fucking super ninja roll out of the way.

All are potential ways of not getting mashed which, if you didn't know that danger was behind you, you'd never consider taking.

So yeah - brill idea. Thanks
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PostPosted: 21:44 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Don't think LED bulbs are strictly legal either.

All the best

Keith


That is why the police use them on horses and mountain bikes, flashing lights are safer Wink
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PostPosted: 21:49 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ariel Badger wrote:
Kickstart wrote:


Don't think LED bulbs are strictly legal either.

All the best

Keith


That is why the police use them on horses and mountain bikes, flashing lights are safer Wink


Stand on the brakes hard enough in a new car and the brake lights will flash as a warning that you've pretty much stood on the brakes, think they may need to take a look at the mot once again
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PostPosted: 22:10 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ariel Badger wrote:
Kickstart wrote:


Don't think LED bulbs are strictly legal either.

All the best

Keith


That is why the police use them on horses and mountain bikes, flashing lights are safer Wink


But horses and mountain bikes are not covered by the same laws as motor vehicles. (well push bikes are but have their own clauses and exemptions)

Flashing red to rear is classed as an emergency warning beacon, and restricted to emergency vehicles under the vehicle lighting regulations, as a visual warning to the rear for a stopped vehicle.

TLDR; they are illegal for average joe.

There was a study that suggested they do increase visibility and reaction time, BUT concluded that if it was more common then the effect would be limited, which is why their use was restricted.
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PostPosted: 22:27 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Acemastr wrote:
Stand on the brakes hard enough in a new car and the brake lights will flash as a warning that you've pretty much stood on the brakes, think they may need to take a look at the mot once again


There is a euro law that covers their use, but as of yet no revision to our own have included them. A pretty grey area that Mr plod would rather let you fight it out in court.
More to the point untill the MOT changes there will be a lot of failures come first MOT.

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PostPosted: 22:41 - 16 Jun 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Beelzebob wrote:


Er... So that, if it looks like you are going to be rear ended, then you can assess whether there is a way out in front of you, or to the side, or you have a chance to drop the bike and do a fucking super ninja roll out of the way.

All are potential ways of not getting mashed which, if you didn't know that danger was behind you, you'd never consider taking.

So yeah - brill idea. Thanks


Er.. By the time you have realised that a car wasn't going to stop you wouldn't have the chance to gear up and move. Or even dive off the bike.
Good luck with doing that.


Thanks.
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