So, I just knocked some Chinese woman down...

[Jayy]

Left work, riding down through an industrial estate and take this 90 degree corner which has a railway bridge you go under as soon as you turn the corner. As I come under it and out the other side, I immediately spot this woman riding a bike on the pavement on my side of the road. She had shopping bags on both sides of her handle bars and on the back of her bike. Out of nowhere, she just does a sharp right and bumps down off the pavement without even looking where she's going.

Queue me trying to brake hard enough without skidding and she decides to look my way to realise I'm coming straight at her. She totally froze and didn't move, I reckon I hit her at 20mph ish.

Some guys jumped out a van behind me and kept her still whilst they phoned an ambulance. Paramedics checked her over on the floor then helped her to her feet and into the ambulance. Police arrived, took my details and breathalysed me, checked I was insured etc and said that was the end of it.

I had a couple of guys come out from the Peugeot garage and said they didn't see it but told the copper they usually hear bikes winding up down that road and watch them fly past and said they never even heard the bike or hear the accident. Copper said there wasn't any skid marks on the road and said it was just a mistake on her part for not looking. Paramedics gave her the all clear, said she was shaken up and had some brusing on her ribs so they took her to hospital for some tests just to be safe.

Problem was, I was riding my sisters B1H 3rd party, so I won't be able to claim back anything for the fucked nose cone. Nothing is smashed up, just 2 large cracks and 3 small one's around the headlights.

The main thing is though, the woman is alright and not seriously injured and I managed to stay on the bike. She pretty much stopped the bike dead when I hit her mountain bike.

I just can't believe she didn't look before doing that, still can't get over people who have no regard for their own safety like that. I've seen people do it too many times, just step out into roads without double checking.

Suppose I will have to wait now and see if she decides to claim on my insurance for it, no doubt all kinds of things will pop up when she does. She didn't speak much English either so who knows. Copper gave me her name, address and phone number. She's local to me, do you reckon I should phone her up in the next few days and see if she's alright or leave it?

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My sisters boyfriend used to work at a body repair place and said they used to fix bike fairings like this all the time by using like a iron thing to knit the cracks back together, then putting fibre glass over and sanding it all down and repainting it. He thinks maybe he could get it done for about £50 because he knows the guys there.

[TUG]

Fucking hell Jay you snapped the clock mount too? How heavy was she?!

Those mounts cost!
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[stinkwheel]

How's she going to claim off your insurance? She caused the accident.

You'd be quite within your rights to demand she pays for the damage to the bike and take her to the small claims court if she doesn't fork out.

Doubtful you'd actually see any money at the end of the day mind.
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[Jayy]

She was about 45 odd, only small! She rolled backwards across the road and her bike pretty much folded in half.

[Jayy]

Thing is Stinkwheel, at the scene of an accident, it's one thing when they say something or admit liability (if you're stupid enough to do that) but as soon as they've had a bit of time to think about it, suddenly, it was your fault and they were in the right.

Nobody really saw it actually happen, some woman in the car behind me was half way up the road as I took the 90 degree turn and she arrived 30 seconds after it happened. She said to me whilst we were waiting for the ambulance, "You must of been speeding to hit her". I said there's no skid marks on the road, I wasn't speeding and how the fuck would she know anyway when she didn't even see it.

She hung around and I did see her speaking to the copper but then she drove off. After I was finished talking with the copper, he said was she a witness or something? So I assume he never took any details from her. The copper was proper sound for once, wasn't being a jobsworth and talking to me in the same tone as I was talking to him. Was actually quire refreshing to not have some cock of a copper giving you the 3rd degree, especially as it genuinely wasn't my fault and I wasn't speeding.

The guy at the Peugeot garage told me to ring him if I need anything from him for the police.

[waffles]

[Jayy]

So she can't actually claim anything from my insurance anyway?

[stinkwheel]

[Clanger]

[Pete.]

Shame you can't claim for your injuries - the ones your sister is going to do you when she sees her bike

Do you know if she told the cops she was riding on the pavement? For you to have hit her she must have ridden off it onto the road which should be enough to prove blame I should think, despite what stories she might come up with in retrospect.

I once worked with a guy who hit an old lady after she walked right out from between cars. His ZXR750 was damaged much worse than that bike and he did manage to successfully sue her for the repairs.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[ajbsmirnoff]

Lifesavers - not just for chaps on motorbikes and bikers on foot. Also good for pushbikes too.

[iooi]

[MattJ]

When I clicked on this thread I thought it was the start of a joke.

The woman in the car behind you is in serious need of a pimp slap.

Glad you're okay, and I hope the woman you hit is okay. Although, I hope you hit her hard enough to knock some sense into her.

However, most importantly, THE BIKE! OH MY GOD IS IT OKAY? Such a nice bike, sad to see it hurt.

[Acemastr]

ahh the ol'e exploding ZXR front ends!

Glad you kept it up
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[dragstaar]

I reckon it'd brin our fucking premiums down if they made cyclists take out some form of fucking insurance. I hate the way they seem to think that can just bop into the middle of the friggin' road and we're the one's who have to swerve around them because we're the one's with the motors.

Once, in London I saw a cyclist scratch up two vans and a car as he cycled past.

It aggravates. Mobility scooters have insurance. Why the hell don't bicycles. I understand there will be complications as to children and regulation etc. but they should make it like the mobility scooters. Insurance optional. But if you fuck up and mess someone else's shit up they fuck you in arse HARD.

[Paivi]

Hope you took photos of her pushbike with the shopping bags on each handlebars, as that could have affected the balance of the bike, so maybe she didn't mean to ride off the pavement onto the road but had to, to avoid falling into it, as the bags on that side were heavier.
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[Jayy]

I will write it all down... I have this vague memory that there's a camera pointing down that road, not sure but I'm going to go and have a look tomorrow, maybe it belongs to one of the car dealerships there and I could get a copy of the tape if it was on.

Spoke to my sisters boyfriend and from looking at the pictures, he reckons it can all be repaired relatively cheaply using his old work place who can do it as a favour for him. See what he says tomorrow.

My sister was surprisingly calm about it, said as long as nobody died and everyone is alright the bike can always be fixed. Will also go back to the Peugeot dealer and see what he's prepared to say if I need to use him.

Aside from the fact I nearly killed some little Chinese old lady, I'm quite impressed that I didn't slide it down the street and it's only done them cracks and nothing more costly.

[Jayy]

[Minty]

I hope you told her to open her eyes?
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[jay12329]

Call a bike solicitor. If you are lucky she will have public liability insurance in her house insurance. I know I have!
I doubt she would have specialist pushbike insurance but that comes with a 3rd part element as well.

HTH
J

[Jayy]

Never trust someone you can blindfold with a shoe lace.

[swampy]

[pinkyfloyd]

I'll say it before Cansa does:

[Chalky.]

You'll never hear from her again.

+ sis pics

[Polo]

I know his sister in real life, I do. She's bang tidy and I smashed her back doors in and everything.
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