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Fuck man!
Take care of yourself first, proper head to toe check, you'll be finding new scrapes in a few days time.
Bike home or had to get it recovered?
Pics of everything close up and far. Nail down that witness otherwise (and prob still will be a) knock for knock.
Avoid insurance if you want to a) not be paying for someone else's mistakes upto 5 years down the line b) want to get your bike and body fixed this year.
BrickMan-
It happened about 300m from home so walked home, got changed and had a sit down then went back and pushed the bike back. I’m gonna give a solicitor a call in the morning. I’m getting worried now that she’s calling police and her insurance that she may be blaming me. Gonna walk back up to the scene to take photos of the road scrapes. I’m sure she pulled out a way before the junction to skip waiting. She gave me her address too and that road isn’t a route she would have taken home so I’m guessing she got fed up of waiting in traffic and decided last minute to pull out to go a different route.
PhilDAS
Not even been riding 6 months yet, just got knocked off on my way home. Not serious, only got cuts and bruises but the bike is fucked. Cracked one of the engine cases so it pissed out all it’s oil, fork is cracked at the axle end too.
Traffic was moving walking pace, clear oncoming lane so I was filtering on the right, only about 10mph and a driver suddenly turned right without looking in the mirror or indicating, hit the left side of me with her door/front wing.
Not really sure of the next steps so any advice appreciated. She’s immediately calling her insurance and reporting it to the police which I told her wasn’t necessary anyway. I don’t want to involve my insurance as I was not at fault so don’t plan on making a claim with them. Will want to make a claim through hers. I have a witness who corroborates that she moved without indicating and that I wasn’t travelling fast etc. She doesn’t have his details.