yo. i crashed.

[Eddie Hitler]

car went through a red light. i hit the side. bike went ontop of me. car carried on driving. i got up and ran after. caught up. then had a broken arm.

end. fucking shit though innit? crashing.

[chillyman0]

Sucks man!

Get well soon, get your insurance payout, get back on the bike, carry on as normal!
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[Chalky.]

That would look great on video!

Bad luck though, cool that you caught them

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Good that you're okish.

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[Rogerborg]

Tough break (ho ho), glad you're still walking though. Milk the nobber for every penny.

1) Did you get witnesses?

2) And come on, get some proper cager hate going. Woman or furriner?
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[Jim Mc]

How'd you get a broken arm from running? Did you run into his car?

[Nixon]

See below

[Eddie Hitler]

[P.addy]

Dude that sucks, surely there are witnesses... especially as you was at the front of a queue apparently?

Hope you heal well, insurance can be a fucker when it comes to claims.

[nathandenniso...]

Like others have said take her for every penny you can get, people like that shouldn't be on the road! Hope you get everything sorted!

[neil.]

Unless she lies her socks off, can't see how she'll get out of it as she ran the red light and pulled out on you on a roundabout when you had right of way anyway.

[Hyaon]

Same thing happened in my accident pretty much, all witnesses behind me fecked off quickly....and yesterday an identical situation nearly happened to me, had to emergency stop with a foot to spare before hitting the car [which helpfully braked halfway going past me] Hope you take everything that bint has got..
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[Casper]

The fucker still left the scene of an accident so a fine will be going his way. What did the police say?

[Rogerborg]

RTA 1988 Section 170.

The requirement is to give name, address and insurance details to anyone who has reasonable grounds for asking, and if not done at the scene to report it to police within 24 hours.

In a way, it'll be better if the dizzy bint (can I call em or what?) did refuse to give details at the scene. Get down to the cop shop right away with her registration number and description and cite Section 170.

If she did give details at the scene, then they won't give a stuff, even if she attempted to escape. There's no clear offence except TC10 (traffic signal) or Due Care and Attention, no cold body, and I'm very sorry but without witnesses or footage Plod and the CPS are very unlikely to touch it.

[waffles]

Lots of roundabouts these days have the red light cameras, they seem to be cropping up all over the place. If this roundabout has one and she jumped the lights then you may get lucky and could use that as evidence that she was in the wrong?

Shame on the broken arm though, GWS and all that
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[Eddie Hitler]

cheers for the replies people, got 1 question quickly -

i declined the hire bike for the potential costs - but i have my vfr400 sitting outside un-insured because its overfueling with a slight oil leak. if i got this fixed for around £300, would i be able to claim this against the insurance? considering i saved money on hire costs, my main bike being unridable etc.

just wondering if anyone has heard of anything similar being done. ta x

[Vincent]

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[Livefast123]

Bad luck on being taken out by a stupid cager

Witnesses are you friend and as such should be hunted with the verocity of a great white. I would be getting a mate to take me back to the roundabout and looking for any form of CCTV evidence, red light camera and CCTV on ajoining buildings. I would get some signs made up detailing when the accident happened and asking witnesses to contact you (cheap pay as you go phone). Chances are people behind you travel that way most of the time so will hopefully help you.

Without witnesses it just becomes a 50/50 because you can't prove that she came through a red light, in fact her witnesses is going to say it was green so unless you can prove otherwise then it's going to be a long slog.
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[G]

Remember a greenlight does not mean 'go'.
It means 'go if it is safe to do so'.

However, as it sounds like they came on from a junction effectively further around the roundabout, this should be irrelevant.

I've heard of enough cases of people 'finding' witnesses, though of course that's very naughty.

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