Girlfriend almost hit a cyclist

Sin_Chase said:
There is no evidential value in breathalysing a cyclist, so there is no point doing it.
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Of course there is. Whilst there may not be an attached power to require a specimen of breath or a statutory limit to work with, getting the cyclist to voluntarily give a breath sample could have significant evidential value down the line. If the cyclist was steaming drunk it may have gone some way to proving the OPs story.

Sin_Chase said:
You CAN be unfit through drink or drugs on a mechanically propelled vehicle (IE a pedal cycle) but this has to be evidenced by the officer through other means and generally is corroborated by a force doctor.
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A pedal cycle is not a mechanically propelled vehicle. There is an offence under some section of the RTA that is specifically "riding a pedal cycle whilst unfit through drink or drugs" though. There is also one under the licencing act which is something like "being drunk in charge of a carriage in a public highway". :)

Op is does sound like a strange one and one I suspect is going to have to go to insurance to decide on how it gets resolved. I would think about how you would put it to them and also mention right from the off that in your opinion you have no doubts that she is trying to scam
Insurance money due to a) the bizarre nature of the entire incident and b) it was the first thing she started bleating on about when she went down.
 
bloomin' cyclist!

some good points made though, make notes of things like if they were cycling down the pavement (non-cycle path) and then the manner in which they joined the carriageway (did they look etc) and were they wearing a helmet?


I'm sure if you're found riding a bicycle drunk on a road then you can lose your drivers license etc etc... could be wrong but would be stupid if there wasn't a penalty for this.

think I had a cyclist flip me the bird yesterday. was driving to the shops on a wide town road (cars parked on either side but still plenty of room) and the few cars in front passed this cyclist. I then kept my distance and just followed as there were cars coming. once the cars had passed I gave a good ol check, went right out into the oncoming lane, made my pass and then waiting till they were some distance behind me in my rear view mirror and pulled back into my lane. checked the mirror again and looked like she was waving her arm/fist up in the air at me.. :confused: oh I'm sorry? did I pass you too safely and leave you too much room? :p maybe a plume of diesel came out as I went past xD (at least it would be nothing like those "smoking vids" of those big diesel pickup truckers haha!! )
 
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Sasso said:
checked the mirror again and looked like she was waving her arm/fist up in the air at me.. :confused: oh I'm sorry? did I pass you too safely and leave you too much room? :p maybe a plume of diesel came out as I went past xD
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"Damn you for overtaking me! Damn you and your car and your money!"
 
Acme said:
"Damn you for overtaking me! Damn you and your car and your money!"
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hehehe :rolleyes: I think she clearly just wanted the D ..........iesel :p

some interesting reading from the google link. I thought cyclists had to wear helmets on the road.... just ones with motors it seems. ah well.. the more you know :)
 
Sin_Chase said:
The police will only report on what they can ACTUALLY see at the scene and take an account from involved parties and witnesses. They cannot actually report what HAS happened because, they were not there, and do not know.
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Unfortunately, that wasn't the case a year ago for my girlfriend. She pulled out of a parking space on the side of the road and traveled about 20 meters down the road when another driver pulled out of a similar parking space and smashed into the side of her. Police and ambulance were called and immediately it felt the police was completely against my girlfriend, the other driver was a women in her 40s with children and my girlfriend looks very young and it just seemed they assumed it must have been my girlfriends fault. They breathalyzed my girlfriend immediately and not the other driver until over an hour later who only just passed. They also drew a diagram for the other party showing my girlfriend pulling out and hitting the other parties car! Thanks police. It's now going to court despite the damage on the cars making it obvious what's happened.

DJ_Bucho said:
I really hope everything works out for you mate (and your girlfriend), were there any witnesses who saw what happened, or was it just you and your girlfriend in the car and the cyclist?
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No witnesses although there were cars about but non stopped.

Haggisman said:
Why did you give your insurance details? Surely if there hasn't been an accident then you are under no obligation to do so?
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We didn't, the bloody police handed them over, I sarcastically asked the police to give us the cyclists but obviously they didn't have any, not that the police even checked.

Haggisman said:
Also, was the cyclist riding or walking on the pavement? If they were riding, I'd make sure to mention this to the police, probably nothing will happen, but she may get slapped with a fine :p
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Riding, this was stated to the police, doubt they got anything though.

My girlfriends reported it to her insurance and on her online account it's been added as an accident :rolleyes: Just have to wait now I suppose to hear if the cyclist tries it on.
 
can we stop calling this person a cyclist, can we use "scam artist on wheels" instead? might help the inevitable downward spiral to "ban all cyclists", "a cyclist once ate my baby/killed a kitten/punched the queen" etc. :D

pepsilol said:
What's the legality in getting one of those diesel cars you see in the USA, the ones that when you put your foot down plummet a load of black soot out and doing it to every cyclist?
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other than being a complete moron? ;)

(just get a REVO or similar remap)
 
lol that's the exact clip on YT I was thinking of :p

but I'd get back on to the phone with insurance and get them to correct that asap as it wasn't an accident. the fact that it says that on the system implies there was a collision. also making it very clear that this cyclist who may contact is completely trying to scam as there was no contact.

really grinds my gears when people like this are lying through their teeth and then figures of authority buy into it. :(
 
Janesy B said:
Why?
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for the reason i mentioned? and these things go downhill faster than a greased up tobogganist.

it was also fairly tongue in cheek. however i am offended as a cyclist that this scam artist should be labelled the same as myself and other law abiding bike riders.

i hope this "scam artist on wheels" ( ;) ) gets prosecuted as trying to commit insurance fraud.
 
Be interesting to see whether the cyclist manages to find a "witness". A while back my partner was getting a lift home from work with a colleague and a cyclist pulled out in front of them on a roundabout (for clarity, the cyclist, car driver and passenger in this tale are all female). Driver slams the brakes on, cyclist falls off her bike but isn't hit by the car.

Subsequently the cyclist claims that as well as being injured by the car an expensive laptop was damaged (no sign of this at the time) and that she has a witness to the accident (again no sign of them at the time). It all goes to court, but the judge throws it out as the "witness" didn't have their story straight and admitted that they were being paid to appear!
 
Had a cyclist come literally mm to taking off a mirror last weekend. I hate it when theres a red light but the cyclists feel the need to gain a few meters by skimming through cars.

Even worse when they get to the red light then suddenly decide they are a pedestrian, go on the pavement, then back on the road once they pass the red light.
 
Mr Badger said:
Be interesting to see whether the cyclist manages to find a "witness". A while back my partner was getting a lift home from work with a colleague and a cyclist pulled out in front of them on a roundabout (for clarity, the cyclist, car driver and passenger in this tale are all female). Driver slams the brakes on, cyclist falls off her bike but isn't hit by the car.

Subsequently the cyclist claims that as well as being injured by the car an expensive laptop was damaged (no sign of this at the time) and that she has a witness to the accident (again no sign of them at the time). It all goes to court, but the judge throws it out as the "witness" didn't have their story straight and admitted that they were being paid to appear!
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Please tell me that both the cyclist and witness got charged with fraud for this? :mad:
 
MooMoo444 said:
Had a cyclist come literally mm to taking off a mirror last weekend. I hate it when theres a red light but the cyclists feel the need to gain a few meters by skimming through cars.

Even worse when they get to the red light then suddenly decide they are a pedestrian, go on the pavement, then back on the road once they pass the red light.
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It's totally legit to get off your bike go onto the kurb push it across the road and carry on cycling.

also gives you a nice head start so cars aren't trying to rush past you.

I've done it a few times rather than sit waiting for 3minutes, if you could push your car along the pavement to skip a light I'm sure you would
 
if they want to get off the bike and then WALK it across at a crossing.... see no problem with that. better than them running the lights, but they must walk it, not just nip up the lowered curb and joining the rest of the walkers while still riding on the bike though.

I hope there was a follow up on those two though... after admitting to being paid to be a witness!!!
 
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arknor said:
It's totally legit to get off your bike go onto the kurb push it across the road and carry on cycling.

also gives you a nice head start so cars aren't trying to rush past you.

I've done it a few times rather than sit waiting for 3minutes, if you could push your car along the pavement to skip a light I'm sure you would
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It's not so much the time saving though. Sure, that must be nice - but it's common decency. Why should cyclists expect to be treated as equal road users if they don't have the respect for red lights, for example?
 
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