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| Alpha-9 |
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 Posted: 20:53 - 12 Apr 2012 Post subject: I fucked up - Crashed |
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Yep.
It was fucking pissing it down out of nowhere, to the extent I couldnt see any road markings, I assumed I could just turn right as normal, but then the other lane of traffic moved too. I put it down to inexperience, he probably didn't expect me to carry on.
All he said was "the lights went green mate"
"Yeah mine too..."
the CID police whatever they are happened to be there to keep me warm while the real police came, real police came and said they'd take breathlysers and details of us both, they forgot/chose not to breathlyse me in the end, did fancy a go on one
Bike damage: Bad. But not too bad hopefully. It was too dark to tell fully but it's not rideable, lets say that. It pulls to the left very heavily, the forks don't seem bent but as I say, dark rain and adreneline I could be wrong. Gear lever snapped off, speedo smashed up, wheel not aligned with the bars. Engine started back up no problem and it drives and changes gears. Probably pricey to fix the bits on it.
Mandatory paint diagram.
https://s17.postimage.org/ovitmcgq5/i_dun_goofed.png
The green circles are green traffic lights, and I was indicating right by the way.
Flame me for doing something stupid if you like, but I'm already sad enough at the state of my bike
Literally just back from riding with my mate on his CG and another guy on his gilera DNA, was having a great time.
Shit ending to an otherwise good day.
Oh yeah and me, i'm er, ok mostly. My hamstring and knee and ankle aches like fuck. Was cramping up in the police car and my shoulders a bit achey. Would be much worse off if I didnt have my gear on
I am very sad. We have ordered pizza.
I had the option of paying police recovery £120 to get my bike back, but that was silly money and my stepdad has a van so, the police gave me a lift back to my house to grab my chain then back to the bike to lock it up the ebstI can, its in the middle of a very busy road where you can't really stop, so i'm hoping it will be okay till tomorrow when my stepdad can pick it up.
Did I mention i am very sad?  ____________________ Fzr-600 1999 |
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[img] ** https://s17.postimage.org/d6etydprh/i_dun_goofed.png ** [/img]
thats what i used without the **
You can see it alpha cos it is stored in your cache, upload it to tinypic.com
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i cant see your mandatory painting, but glad ur ok .
pizza, hot bath, if you got a missus she should know what shes to do see the damage tomo all you can do. ____________________ i dumped my girlfriend the other day! she wouldnt act out one of my fantasy's. all i wanted her to do was come home from work, catch me fucking her sister and join in!!! miserable bitch!
My wifes so ugly, the only thing that goes down on her
Is the internet connection. |
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I can see it
unlike cansas which didnt work
https://s17.postimage.org/d6etydprh/i_dun_goofed.png
Direct link.
Thanks, pizza and paracetamol and a nice cup of tea.
And tomorrow off work please. I'm in mourning. And pain. ____________________ Fzr-600 1999 |
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Bad luck
Looks like your fault as well from the diagram. I'm guessing you didn't have a green filter light, just a green light, and both sets of lights turned green... is up to any traffic turning across the road to give way to those going straight on ;( Those kinds of junctions are actually stupid and do catch people out |
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Yes, he hit me on my left, my leg hurts and the gear levers snapped, pretty much hit my leg trapping it between his car and my bike as it collided..
Yes, the police took details form both of us and gave them to each other, including contact numbers in case we settle it out of insurance. I'm going to give them a ring in the morning to see what they say, depending on the repair costs I very much doubt i'll claim.
I don't want to say whether I think It was my fault or his in print on here, but I do think he had a lot of time to see me indicating and coming into his path and to brake, but he didn't... But yes those types of roads do catch people out...especially that ugly dangerous one where lorrys regularly frequent. To the extent as the police tried to U turn to get out they nearly got hit by someone, seriously
It was here https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=watermead+way+leicester&hl=en&ll=52.667378,-1.107302&spn=0.042109,0.077162&sll=52.695269,-1.155964&sspn=0.16833,0.308647&t=h&hnear=Watermead+Way,+United+Kingdom&z=14&layer=c&cbll=52.667326,-1.107136&panoid=ka8iBMD3F8olSbHKMCGEnA&cbp=12,300.78,,1,2.75
Obviously i was in the right hand lane, although it was hard to tell lane markings with my shitty headlight and in the pissing rain ____________________ Fzr-600 1999
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| Scythe wrote: | | Alpha-9 wrote: |
Obviously i was in the right hand lane, although it was hard to tell lane markings with my shitty headlight and in the pissing rain |
If the green filter light wasn't on, you might have a tough case. Usually junctions like that have a pause, so oncoming traffic gets out of the way, goes red, and then the green filter light comes on. |
No filter light, see the link https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=watermead+way+leicester&hl=en&ll=52.667378,-1.107302&spn=0.042109,0.077162&sll=52.695269,-1.155964&sspn=0.16833,0.308647&t=h&hnear=Watermead+Way,+United+Kingdom&z=14&layer=c&cbll=52.667326,-1.107136&panoid=ka8iBMD3F8olSbHKMCGEnA&cbp=12,300.78,,1,2.75
I'm not fighting it or saying it wasn't my fault, but I think it could have been avoided if both of us were paying more attention.
End of the day I put it down to inexperience and poor road knowledge, those types of giveway turns are unfamiliar to me  ____________________ Fzr-600 1999 |
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Maybe they should have a red arrow for filters when you don't have right of way (but if the green traffic light was on you "go if clear" as usual), would certainly help in this situation - someone approaching the junction for the first time would have a hard job spotting it, a filter light on permanently red/green would at least let you know it was there & the red filter light would let you know the traffic is still oncoming.
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| goto10 wrote: | | pendulum wrote: | That link shows a filter light on the far traffic light.
Bit of an odd place to have one though. |
Yeah you're right, I zoomed in a bit and it's definitely there.
OP is this picture outdated or is it still there..? Might give you something to work with if it was on at the time. |
All he'll have to say was his light was green.
OP, sucks on the off, but like you say put it down to experience. You may have been indicating, and he may have had time to stop, but the point is he would have expected you to give way to him.
Take the traffic lights out of equation, if you had turned across the flow of traffic into the path of another car, it would have been your fault. Exactly the same applies with traffic lights put back into the situation.
That's not to say that we all haven't done things equally as stupid, but more often than not got away with them..  ____________________ "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." Hunter S Thompson
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Shit dude unlucky..
Main thing your alright though!
Wishing the bike well soon too..
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 13 years, 326 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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