Busted wrist/U-turn monkey.

[Pete.]

Got caught out on Blackheath Hill this morning, filtering down past a looong queue of traffic and some joker figured he'd had enough of sitting in it and pulled a U-turn just as I got level with the back of his motor. I clobbered his front wing and went over the corner of his bonnet, landing on my face luckily so no damage there..

Anyway, the divvy's a bit battered, got a crack in the rocker cover, busted fins, indicators, mirrors, twisted forks and sundry other small marks, and I have a fractured scaphoid (again).

Fun this filtering, ain't it
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[SoND]

Unlucky, get well soon.

Was it you that came off filtering before?
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[Pete.]

[Kal]

[yandy_yay]

Unlucky dude, hope your injury heals quickly.

guess you got loads of witnesses so hopefully they'll sort out the insurance quickly for you.

Andy
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[RussG]

insurance wise who is to blame in this sort of incident?
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[Kal]

Depends on the individuals Russ, used to be generally be the riders fault but just recently things have been changing.
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[Pete.]

Got witnesses - the two vehicles directly behind him. One was a Tesco lorry so he would have had a good view. The car driver never bothered collecting numbers and spent the whole time on his phone.

RussG: Hard to say and a lot depends on the witness statements. Technically there's no law against filtering but you have to excersise care and obey the road markings (stay left of solid lines etc). I doubt if many filtering accidents will be apportioned 100/0 blame given the inherant risks of filtering. I can't see how I can be appotioned much though. On my side I have photos and witnesses, were he has none.
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Finglonga]

[Pete.]

I couldn't see. He didn't have it in his hand when he got out of the car.
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Finglonga]

Just thought he may have used it after to hide the fact he was using is when he caused the accident when the Police check the logs.
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[Kris]

Feck Geri, that must have been you on the left (as the double white lines start) talking to the police. I was coming down there and clocked the so decided against going the wrong way round the last island..

If so then that's the second time I've seen you, and the second time you've been accompanied by plod.

Hope you get it sorted, I've seen a few near misses down that hill. One was a blue Hornet that swerved to miss a pedestrian and crashed. Another time some CB500 almost hit a car wing that was emerging from a hidden entrance on the left. Dodgy in the extreme there..
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[Rowey]

GWS

Keep us updated on the insurance proceedings. I've had a near miss filtering recently. I was unsure as to how it would've turned out if I had of been hit.
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[Pete.]