lucky7! more like unlucky7!

I hit a car which pulled out of a side road into my path. I was the only thing travelling towards him on the main road, he pulled out of a minor road attempting to turn right into a slow moving line of traffic. It was travelling downhill, I hit him HARD, I flew a long way and was quite badly injured. (so was my bike)
My solicitor begs to differ with your wise man.

If I was traveling down hill at speed and could see a car lurking in a side-road I'd either shit myself in anticipation or slow down and cover the brakes. If I couldn't see the car or side-road then I wouldn't have enough visibility for my speed in those circumstances so would also slow down just in case.

Hope you're healing well. And no doubt you'll have the driver bang to rights in terms of 'legal' responsibility. My gripe with avoiding accidents and taking more personal responsibility as someone who's ridden motorbikes and bicycles for 20 years is more to do with the fact that we get hurt, cars and vans don't.