Hey Guys,
This isn't as much about the accident itself, more about what happened afterwards.
On Friday night I was taken off my push-bike at a junction in London. The driver was turning right (from opposite direction) and didn't see me apparently, and went in to me as I was going straight-forward.
Came out with a few nasty injuries; partially dislocated shoulder, fractured toe and they had to glue my head, along with the usual bumps and bruises, but I'm sure I'll be on the mend soon enough. Police and medics were at the scene pretty sharpish, statements were taken and I went off in the ambulance.
I spoke to the driver yesterday, purely to see how he was. It was a nasty shock for both of us and we ended the call amiably. 5 minutes later, I get a call from the same number, and it's his mother on the phone. I explain I didn't really want to talk to her as there was no need, to which she responded, "I'm sorry love but you'll have to, because it was my car". I didn't want to put the phone down on her, so listened as she quite aggressively told me how I couldn't follow the case up even if I wanted to, because she had spoken to the officers who had been at the scene and they had closed the case there and then.
I tried to explain that I was calling only to see how her son was, out of pure concern. He'd mentioned he was involved in an accident a month previous, so he was pretty shaken that this had happened again so soon. However, she just carried on being intimidating and re-iterating that I didn't have a chance, and she'd only had the car for 3 months. My battery died during the call, I text back explaining this and got a reply saying "No worries".
As far as I'm concerned, the driver was completely in the wrong, but I'm not looking to make a meal out of it. At most, it would be nice to have the costs of my bike repairs covered, which wouldn't be a huge amount. I'm just glad we both came out OK, it could've been A LOT worse. Regardless, I didn't really bring this up at all.
I just wanted to know if officers can close the case at the scene like that? Surely they would want to investigate and see if I had jumped a red light, or the driver was driving dangerously just for investigations sake at least no? It was on Euston Road in London, so pretty sure there's cameras everywhere.
I was told by the officer at the scene that, "you probably won't hear from us again" and he gave me the driver's details in case I wanted to follow a claim up. I did ring Euston Police Station the next day to see if they could reserve the CCTV footage just in case, but was told they would be investigating at their own pace anyway, so there was not much I could do for now.
I guess I just want to know if she was lying or not, as I'm a bit worried now, after the way she acted.
Cheers guys.
This isn't as much about the accident itself, more about what happened afterwards.
On Friday night I was taken off my push-bike at a junction in London. The driver was turning right (from opposite direction) and didn't see me apparently, and went in to me as I was going straight-forward.
Came out with a few nasty injuries; partially dislocated shoulder, fractured toe and they had to glue my head, along with the usual bumps and bruises, but I'm sure I'll be on the mend soon enough. Police and medics were at the scene pretty sharpish, statements were taken and I went off in the ambulance.
I spoke to the driver yesterday, purely to see how he was. It was a nasty shock for both of us and we ended the call amiably. 5 minutes later, I get a call from the same number, and it's his mother on the phone. I explain I didn't really want to talk to her as there was no need, to which she responded, "I'm sorry love but you'll have to, because it was my car". I didn't want to put the phone down on her, so listened as she quite aggressively told me how I couldn't follow the case up even if I wanted to, because she had spoken to the officers who had been at the scene and they had closed the case there and then.
I tried to explain that I was calling only to see how her son was, out of pure concern. He'd mentioned he was involved in an accident a month previous, so he was pretty shaken that this had happened again so soon. However, she just carried on being intimidating and re-iterating that I didn't have a chance, and she'd only had the car for 3 months. My battery died during the call, I text back explaining this and got a reply saying "No worries".
As far as I'm concerned, the driver was completely in the wrong, but I'm not looking to make a meal out of it. At most, it would be nice to have the costs of my bike repairs covered, which wouldn't be a huge amount. I'm just glad we both came out OK, it could've been A LOT worse. Regardless, I didn't really bring this up at all.
I just wanted to know if officers can close the case at the scene like that? Surely they would want to investigate and see if I had jumped a red light, or the driver was driving dangerously just for investigations sake at least no? It was on Euston Road in London, so pretty sure there's cameras everywhere.
I was told by the officer at the scene that, "you probably won't hear from us again" and he gave me the driver's details in case I wanted to follow a claim up. I did ring Euston Police Station the next day to see if they could reserve the CCTV footage just in case, but was told they would be investigating at their own pace anyway, so there was not much I could do for now.
I guess I just want to know if she was lying or not, as I'm a bit worried now, after the way she acted.
Cheers guys.
