Had my first painful crash, thanks to some wanker!

[oJaXo]

just had my first accident

was going down this hill about 20 mph, slowing for a junction ahead.

car pulled out right infront of me,
leaving me no time to swerve,
pulled in the front brake hard went straight over the top,
missed the car,
car pissed off sharpish,

result = scratched to fuck bike and broken collarbone and finger.
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[druidsam]

bad luck oJaXo, get well soon, could have been a lot worse



.......................Sam
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[PeterNSR]

Get well soon Mate
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[crowe]

did they even realise you'd come off your bike before speeding off?


that's almost as bad as a hit 'n' run if they saw you fall

[hellkat]

Bastids.
I've had that same thing (except not with the broken collarbone )
ended up with a wrenched ankle for two months, and a 28 month fear of riding that I've only just managed to shake.

Hope you feel better soon
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[oJaXo]

thanks everyone

they must of seen or heard me grr.

whats pissed me off most is i had my a2 test booked for next thurs and now u cant do it!
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[B10Hazard]

Wankers !.
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[damz]

might be worth goin back there as the person may park there regulary and find them.
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[c4rlosYZF]

what happens in these situations insurance wise if where he came off hes bike due to braking hard coz the prick pulled out on him but he didnt hit the car, if there was witnesses there could he claim against the driver even though there was no collision ??

[lllN30lll]

why'd you use the front brake in - temperature conditions?
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[iooi]

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[hellkat]

Yeah and everyone's perfect, and everyone has road skills that are top notch, and everyone's situation is the same.

Sorry, pyro, but I don't think its fair to say to him "If you had time to stoppie ..." and I don't care how many of you lot THINK you could have/would have stopped in time. Give yourselves all a medal if thats the case, and I hope never to see any of you starting accident threads (well, not anyone EVER starting accident threads would be good!).

This time, ojaxo didn't/couldn't stop in time. He learnt the hard way. And he has a broken collarbone to thank for it. When a similar thing happened to me, any one of you would have thought I had the ability to stop. But somehow I didn't. I was on an up-slope, camber was wrong, I was tired and I didn't have the strength to hold the bike up due to other non-incident-related circumstances, so I dropped it on my foot.

No situation is EVER cut and dried, there is no cookie-cutter way of saying "it should happen like this". Yeah there should be; that would be great, we could ALL anticipate accidents cos we could see a set of circumstances about to happen. The advanced riding instructors might tell you how to deal with a set of circumstances, but none are ever always exactly the same.

We can all say "shoulda done that, shoulda gone to specsavers". We can say it to ourselves; we can listen to our friends, our mums, safety nazis tell us, or we can listen to advanced riding course instructors tell us. Doesn't mean that every time every circumstance will be the same. Or our responses to it.

I hope you feel better soon, ojaxo.

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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Maybe you could of avoided the accident, maybe not, we didn't see it did we? What do you think you could of done differently?

We all have our moments, i was on a main road going through a staggered junction @ 30 ish. 2 cagers wanting to join the main road, both pulled out on me !! i managed to zig-zag swerve, accelerate+ brake all at the same time Proper panic mode. But we live and learn eh?

Use yer good arm to start fixing the bike and get back on ASAP

Pat
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[BBCTom]

It's nice when everyone 'knows' they're right and argues against the biker. And we wonder why legal precedents are biased against us

iooi - Again, well done on having exactly the wrong answer

The fact is that if you had a witness to the accident who got the vehicle reg, you would have a claim against the driver. Although your 2 vehicles didn't collide, your accident (if all details are correct) would have been avoided if not for the 3rd parties' negligence.

If you don't have the 3rd parties details, you can always claim from the MIB on the grounds of an 'untraced driver'. As the MIB are publicly funded, claims do take a while, they will take £300 of your compensation for their costs and you may not receive the same amount of compensation with the MIB as you would if you had 3rd party details, but it's better than nothing.
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[deanoet]

We all know what to do braking wise in an emergency. We all know what to do if the wheel locks up
Most the time in an emergency braking situation it is "oh fook, anchor on, freeze, smash"

Most crashes are totally avoided by both or either party doing something different, Hindsight is a wonderful thing, that none of us have. Only thing close to it is experiance. And there is only one way to get experiance.

Hope you heal up okay, bikes can be fixed and / or replaced. Your collar bone cant be.

[hellkat]

[oJaXo]

thanks to the helpful comments and here's abit more info.

i couldnt even see the nose of the car poking out the drive until he drove out infront of me (in a hurry) so i had no idea he was there.

i was slowing down for a junction so i guess i was doing about 20mph.

when i said went straight over, i meant the handlebars.

in response to me having enough time to stoppie, i pulled in the front brake first then the rear but i guess i panicked and pulled the front in too hard, the steering locked to one side flipping me over the front and the bike sliding on its side.

also surely, if i was going down the road and the driver is meant to give way to traffic its his fault for pulling out infront of me?

Sorry if any previous info was unclear, writing with one hand sucks.

cheers.
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[Towton 1461]

First off. Sorry to hear about your accident, oJaXo. Hope you
make a speedy recovery and are back in the saddle ASAP.

Can you identify the driveway the car emerged from?

Can you remember what time the accident occurred?

Do you have any witnesses who saw what happened or, anyone
who helped you pick up the bike, take you to hospital, etc?

Can you remember the make/colour/reg/etc of car?

Did you notice anything identifying about the driver(or passenger(s)).
Male, female skin/hair colour/glasses/etc.

When you went to hospital to get fixed did you tell the staff treating
you how and why you were injured?

Type anything and everything down that you can clearly remember.
Print it out. Go and make a statement at the Police station using your
notes and point out your injuries and name the hospital(s) and
medical staff who treated you. And list the basic damage to your
bike and clothes, etc.

You might want to take a wander past the said driveway and see if
"that" car is parked on the property. If it is mention it to the police.

Let us know how you get on, if you do indeed decide to pursue it further.

Good luck and, get well soon.
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