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Sounds all to familiar from when I got hit by a car, they said they didn't see me and so t-boned me when it was my right of way on the roundabout. The police said fair enough to her stating she didn't see me and I had no lights, they failed to do anything even though she should have been done for driving without due care and attention. 95% of the police are useless and have no interest in what they're doing, there are a few exceptions though!
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So the man is 77 - so what? He would also be allowed to drive a motor vehicle. The man went into the back of the car - could be true, as when she was starting off her speed would have been slow, doesn't make this the cyclist's fault. And the sun was bright!!! She should have been driving according to the weather conditions - it the roads are wet then reduce speed, if visibility is limited than wait until you are 100% certain that a change in direction will not affect another road user, and maybe consider visual aids (in this case sunglasses).
As for leaving the scene, this is an offence but the police will not prosecute as she went back. Unfortunately her attitude is shit - it just screams 'my life is more important than your life'.
Would be interesting to join mumsnet, but I can well imagine that would not publish posts containing the word CUNT...
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I've got kicked off mumsnet twice, I'm not a mum but I think the issue was mainly due to my questions about 'pegging'
Using too many clothes pegs on the sheets and therfore depriving t-shirts and trousers of their nessecary pegs?
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I got hit by a car three weeks ago. Slow traffic that I was riding up the inside of (as I am allowed to do). I was riding along side of one car just as she just turned into a parking space to our left propperly wiping me out. Fuck, broken arm. The womans excuse was that she couldnt see me as I was right in her blind spot. I did point out that that is why you check your blind spot. She looked at me blankly. Aparently that inst a thing in New Zealand (literaly the worst drivers in the world).
Anyway, she called an ambulance and waited untill I had gone. The police arrived and charged her with cairless driving causing an injery. While this could have been a lot worse I do feel bad as she is going to lose her licence. The police are charging her irispective of weather I want to charge or not. At least they are doing something about it!
Still, 2 weeks of the bike and 6 weeks in a cast in the middle of summer sucks fucking balls!
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The New Zealand police seem to do that - I got knocked off by a left-turning car and they would have charged him even I didn't want to. He lost his licence for 6 months, fined about $1000 (500 quid) and paid me another $1000 + all the costs to fix/replace bike/gear. Broke my hand pretty bad, still pretty fucked after 6 months. Drivers are pretty shit here not worse than most cities I've riddden in.
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Not exactly surprising that the popo sided with the driver, is it?
I had a cycle copper approach me 'in a manner rather rude' (to quote the great Woody Guthrie) ... the argument ended with ME telling HIM, the wanker (for that he was), to 'Go about your business!'... best thing I've ever said to an officious cunt who needed to hear it - normally the sort of thing you'd later think 'Oh I should have said ~'.
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http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/1676111-Was-involved-in-an-accident-this-morning
Really sickening and disgusting insight into police attitudes:
*I pulled out of a road, road was clear and as I crossed the junction heard a bang. Looked in the rear view mirror a d saw a bloke and his pushbike on the floor. So I stopped and got out to see if he was ok. His head was bleeding and the women who were there who were waiting to cross the road said I'd hit him. He went into the back end of my car. I genuinely did not see him. We called an ambulance because his head was bleeding. The ambulance arrived within minutes. I had to leave to take kids to school but said to ambulance paramedics that I'd be back. They said that's fine. Just as I pulled back up behind the ambulance my phone rang. It was the police. They said that I wasn't there and I said that I'd just pulled up at the back of the ambulance. They got out the police can and I went to meet them. The police woman got in my car and took details down and gave me a breath test. Which was clear.
**She took details and I said that I never saw him. And she said I'm not going to say you were at fault as both parties were negligent. She said tbh the old guy who was 77 shouldn't h e been riding his bike in this wind as its strong anyway. **
She said I may get a letter to attend a driver improvement course but she said she doubts I will get one. She took insurance details etc
**It shook me up but glad the police saw that it wasnt all my fault. The sun was bright which she put that down to not seeing him too.
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The woman is more worried about her taking her kids to school than the well-being of an old man she has almost killed. And the police don't give a fuck either.
It says that she lives in East Yorkshire.