Quick question chaps as im slightly uneasy if this is as clear cut as my mrs believes.
She had a accident in her smart yesterday. She was in a right hand lane at a junction waiting to turn right, the traffic oncoming was stacked up at a set of lights. There is a yellow box on the junction so the oncoming traffic had to leave the gap open which I believe the mrs waited to see what was happening took nothing was moving so did the turn. A young lad on a moped whilst this was happening then undertook (over took the car on the left hand side) the car oncoming car and hit the mrs smart on her left side. A fair bit of damage on her car nothing on his moped. He was with another two bikers who instantly blamed him and gave him "a lot of verbal". Anyway he refused to give details so my mrs called the police. They were only around the corner so attending very quickly.
To cut the story short, he did then give details over and admitted blame to the police. But what I am interested in is what is likely to happen now? As far as we understand the police will give us the report as they see it but how likely are we to win this? Our experiance isnt good with bikes to be honest as she had a accident before and It really shook the herup, she has been very very careful and aware of keeping her eye out of bikers. At least no one was really hurt just shaken but she is down to her last two years no claims and would rather not see them go else by by brabus smart.
My take on it would be he shouldn't have undertook a car when his path was not clear, I understand he wouldnt fill the yellow box like a car and would have perhaps undertook other cars to be clear but surely this is still not correct (I don't know for sure as im not a biker) the other point would be that his mates advised the police that he didnt really show down at the junction so perhaps he was also wrong here.
Let me know what you guys think...
Fingers crossed it might sway our way...
She had a accident in her smart yesterday. She was in a right hand lane at a junction waiting to turn right, the traffic oncoming was stacked up at a set of lights. There is a yellow box on the junction so the oncoming traffic had to leave the gap open which I believe the mrs waited to see what was happening took nothing was moving so did the turn. A young lad on a moped whilst this was happening then undertook (over took the car on the left hand side) the car oncoming car and hit the mrs smart on her left side. A fair bit of damage on her car nothing on his moped. He was with another two bikers who instantly blamed him and gave him "a lot of verbal". Anyway he refused to give details so my mrs called the police. They were only around the corner so attending very quickly.
To cut the story short, he did then give details over and admitted blame to the police. But what I am interested in is what is likely to happen now? As far as we understand the police will give us the report as they see it but how likely are we to win this? Our experiance isnt good with bikes to be honest as she had a accident before and It really shook the herup, she has been very very careful and aware of keeping her eye out of bikers. At least no one was really hurt just shaken but she is down to her last two years no claims and would rather not see them go else by by brabus smart.
My take on it would be he shouldn't have undertook a car when his path was not clear, I understand he wouldnt fill the yellow box like a car and would have perhaps undertook other cars to be clear but surely this is still not correct (I don't know for sure as im not a biker) the other point would be that his mates advised the police that he didnt really show down at the junction so perhaps he was also wrong here.
Let me know what you guys think...
Fingers crossed it might sway our way...
