Someone Ran me over..

Clearly the first thing you should do is post the video for us all here. :p

Secondly this is obviously karma from you saying not nice things about the Nintendo Switch! :p

Thirdly. I'd be following up the police with daily phone calls and make notes of times, people you speak to etc. Create your own audit trail. Make sure they have paid him a visit. You should be able to claim against his insurance.

Finally, glad you're ok! That's the main thing :)
 
Phate said:
Clearly the first thing you should do is post the video for us all here. :p

Secondly this is obviously karma from you saying not nice things about the Nintendo Switch! :p

Thirdly. I'd be following up the police with daily phone calls and make notes of times, people you speak to etc. Create your own audit trail. Make sure they have paid him a visit. You should be able to claim against his insurance.

Finally, glad you're ok! That's the main thing :)
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"Make sure they pay him a visit" ? the Police don't work like that if they did they would need 10 times the officers they already have.
You can't make the Police visit anybody.
 
I would try and hang him out to dry for leaving the scene. You could have been seriously injured and he did a runner and then when confronted didn't even return. That would make my blood boil.
 
John40 said:
"Make sure they pay him a visit" ? the Police don't work like that if they did they would need 10 times the officers they already have.
You can't make the Police visit anybody.
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The guy hit and run someone on a bike, there is video evidence of it happening as well and he was then further pursued by a bystander and he STILL didn't come back AND there was a local off duty bobby as well.

Yes you're right you cannot "make" them do anything but after all that there is no way they wouldn't go round there but making phone calls to ensure the process is being followed and the wheels are turning and it simply doesn't get left or forgotten about he can do :)
 
That is if the car wasn't stolen/on forged plates and everything.

It's all great going by the book for these things, but if someone is willing to run over a cyclist, flee from the scene and not car when someone else chases them down in their car, it's likely to have more at play than just that.
 
Kuros said:
That is if the car wasn't stolen/on forged plates and everything.

It's all great going by the book for these things, but if someone is willing to run over a cyclist, flee from the scene and not car when someone else chases them down in their car, it's likely to have more at play than just that.
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Or, they're just a ****? Granted you may be right and their could be something more to this but at the same time there may well not be.

My brother did something similar once. In his own car, which was insured. But he has a problem with authority and the law and his instinct is to leg it when he does something wrong.
 
Glad to hear you're not too badly injured. I cycle commute and every time I read / hear about something like this it makes me more tempted to get a camera to mount to my helmet. At least you have witnesses which will help greatly for any further action that may be taken. As long as the driver has insurance you can claim for everything, just keep all receipts for anything you have to buy. Let us know how this all ends up panning out.
 
Glad to hear you're OK.

I've recently got back into biking and getting hit by a car is my greatest fear.
 
I'm going to court as a witness to a van hitting a bike in a criminal case when it was accident. So with him hitting you and driving off if he is tracked down I imagine some jail time would be in order.
 
Gabbatek said:
I got 4k from them when some asshat totalled my car with no insurance.
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So did my mate after an Iraqi migrant smashed into him headon at a set of lights while stationary. He drove over the pavement to get away almost running people down then he drove off. They went to the house where the car was registered and the person involved lived. The car was there, he was there with injuries sustained. He denied it, said that the car had been crashed into months ago(Even tho their neighbours stated otherwise) and as he pleaded ignorance/no understanding it went nowhere.

It took almost 3 years to get any money out of the MIB tho!
 
platypus said:
Oh I know; it's the use of the word 'likely'. Have you seen how pathetic sentencing and compensation often is in the case of cars hitting cyclists?
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Ah sorry, presumably in most cases they would be able to make a claim off the insurance and only if they aren't covered would they be making a claim to the court?
 
I was hit a few weeks ago in an almost exactly similar fashion - single lane road, she pulled right out of a clearly marked junction with full visibility straight into my path (I was going about 20kmph in the middle of the road - I tend to pull out when I see a car approaching a junction as some folk like to poke their noses out of the junction). We hit dead on and I went over the handle bars, up the bonnet and into her windscreen.

Me being the stupid nice guy didn't go to the hospital (thankfully nothing broken) or get a police report. Anyway, I'm lucky as she's still being super nice about the whole situation and is buying me a new bike, which certainly isn't cheap.

OP; even though you're ok, you could easily not have been and that makes this a much more serious issue than it looks from your lack of injuries - this is a hit and run and frankly the punishment will be huge. Don't worry about compensation - that'll come in due course. Just keep on top of the police and make them see it through.
 
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