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Can anyone offer any advice / help. I've found the " What to Do in Case of An Accident" thread and it's really useful but wondering if anyone has any experience of accidents where the details of car weren't got because they drove off?
RIding with a friend along Clerkenwell Rd yesterday a Black Cab in lane to carry straight on suddenly decided he was going left and swiped my friend left into Rosebery Ave, clipping his bars which flipped him sideways sending wheel under cars rear tyre and dragged him along on his side. His hub cap popped off in the process making lots of noise, lots of dust and dirt and the cab raced off leaving him lying in the middle of the road. I was just behind and luckily there wasn't any major traffic following so I managed to stand in the road until he could get up.
We think there may have been passengers in the cab too.
All the evidence left was the cab's hub cap.
As for the bike, the front wheel was a right off, twisted stem, lots of scrapes. Helmet, scuffed dented on one side (thankfully not his face instead) He suffered badly gritted hand, scrapes and bad bruises up arm, bruised swollen foot, cut ends of fingers, general bad bruising and aches all over.
Phoned Police immediatley and as we only had one other guy who stopped as witness who only managed to see for definate the first LF03 of the reg and thinks the rest might be OX? the Police said if they attended there's not much they could do apart from fill a bit of paper that would lead nowhere. They suggested if he still wanted to report it then to visit a Police station later.
Very nice lady dropped bandages and wipes and stuff to clean up etc out of her window above but saw nothing.
Bike was sorted out immediatley at Brick Lane Bikes, new wheel etc as he found it hard to walk on his heel, but was ok pedalling.
I've sent a link to him for the "Accident" thread and the TFL report page too. Trying to get him to do those and report officially to Police. I've got a fairly sure feeling that none of it will lead anywhere without full reg plate though. At the time the last thing any of us thought about was getting the reg as the driver was gone so quickly and we just wanted to check he was ok and get him out of the road.
Has anybody got any advice or had any experience of hit and runs with no details? Is there anything he can do?
I want him to find out if he can claim for new wheel, repairs and broken helmet from TFL with just witness reports and no reg details.
Also, I'm guessing I'm not an independent witness as I'm his friend?
I know it's a long shot with not much hope of getting anywhere but if anyone has any ideas / experience that led to something please chip in.
Thanks.