Hit and Run!

[james125]

Hello all

On the 16/09/13 at approximately 7:30am. A Navy Nissan Qashqai travelling south on St. Mary Cray High Street (B258) hit me of my motorcycle and didn’t stop. (just next to the Blacksmiths lane bus stop). The driver left behind the offside wing mirror cover of their vehicle and now has a bare wing mirror.

If you have any information on the driver please contact me! Police CAD REF 1350 If the driver is apprehended due to information you give me I'll give a £50 reward. Thank you (You'll have to take my word here)

My chances of catching the perpetrator seem unlikely, so can anyone recommend a cheap automatically recording camera for my motorcycle? Thanks

[thx1138]

don't suppose you had the good fortune to have any identification marks etched on the mirror?

[james125]

[mogstar]

The time of the incident suggests that the driver may be commuting to work. If you can, wait there between 7 and 8 to see if appears. Have a pen and paper handy to jot the registration number if you get lucky.

[gorillaonabik...]

Glad you're alive. Had a hit and run myself not so long ago albeit in tamer circumstances.

Hope you get the individual concerned.
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[james125]

[thx1138]

yeah, I've been knocked off in a rush hour hit and run, and to add insult to injury about 30 cars drove around me pinned under my bike and didn't stop to help

[ian505050]

The exact same thing happened to me in Bradford with at least 4 CCTV cameras pointing at the incident,

When i called the police on 101 and gave them all the details and told them that i was not injured they told me it was a CIVIL matter only and they would not try and catch the bloke that in my eyes performed a HIT and RUN.

No matter how hard i tried to explain that i wanted them to do something they were not interested unless i was hurt. To say i was pissed off would be an understatement.

Next time i get knocked off my bike i will be up on my feat ASAP and WILL be taking the law into my own hands as i tried the politically correct route last time only to be fucked over by the car driver and then shortly after by the police.

I lost even more faith in the police service (system) that day.

OP, So the police are actively doing something to catch the guy?

[james125]

Looks like I'm not the only one then. The police took my details but I don't think they are making any effort at all to catch the bloke. Looks like having CCTV on your bike is the only way to avoid this.

[johnsmith222]

If it's any condolences some bitch did this to me on monday. She hung about for a few seconds debating whether to stop and then decided to piss off.

Luckily the ZZR got away with just a broken brake lever and I've just got some muscle pain and a scraped knee.

I blame GTA 5.

[G]

Go and have a look for CCTV yourself.

Request to see it yourself.

Hassle the police if they insist the police do it.

[Islander]

[P.addy]

I work near there, I'll look out for a Navy cashcow.

[yaigi]

You on Twitter? Might be worth composing a Tweet to get the word out there some more... colour coded wing mirrors are quite expensive to replace and rather difficult to find in scrapyards when the car is fairly new, so they might be driving around for a while without...
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