I think I would approach a no win no fee solicitor as you have video footage and a witness. They will claim against that motorist's insurance. Before you do that speak with the police as the driver didn't pass on his details, surely the police should give you these or the driver's insurance details.
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I'm amazed I've not seen a pedestrian run down on my way to work yet - I see maybe 1 person in 10 who actually looks before they step out before crossing these days.
Leaving the scene of an accident is a crime in itself though...
http://www.keep-your-licence.co.uk/motoring-offences/failing-to-stop-report/
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I'm going to guess Phate meant that the only possible explanation of leaving the scene isn't just drunk or drugged up.
Only the ones on the pavements! lol
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Life as a London cyclist. Those cabbies really don't understand why Uber is so popular do they
Life as a London cyclist. Those cabbies really don't understand why Uber is so popular do they
Everyone posting here saying "do him", "sue his ass", "fleece him" etc needs to really think about this and experience it. When you're knocked off and relatively unhurt the last thing you really want is a long drawn out process, revisiting the incident and constantly worrying about things. Jonney just wants a resolution to what has happened, as he's relatively unhurt, just wants the damage resolved (repair/new bike).
WARNING. Lost post incoming of my experience after being knocked off.
One of the most important things is to log it as an accident with the local police force, they'll give you an incident number (hope you have that already?) and they'll (usually) ask you to go down and fill in the accident forms. This'll take at least an hour. As part of that form filling they'll look into 'blame' from your standpoint, log any evidence you have and maybe also ask about steps you wish to take against the 'offender'. If he hasn't logged the accident they should naturally consider he is to blame (and therefore likely at fault).
I was knocked off in 2014, a 'just didn't see you' from a driver not giving way to traffic at a roundabout. I was mostly unhurt as he'd hit the rear triangle from the side (& not my leg!) at fairly low speeds (~15mph?) sending me and the bike spawning. I was heavily bruised from the impact with the tarmac but nothing broken. Helmet shattered. I got the guys details and he was very apologetic at the scene ("I'll pay you for everything, do you want me to drive you to hospital?"). Stupidly although there were several witnesses, I didn't take any of their details. Limped home and called in sick to work.
Later that day I called the guy to follow things up, he "didn't want to deal with it" and gave me his insurance details. Was really off with me, offered no more apologies and told me he'd been told (unsure who by) "not to speak to me"! I was quite taken aback by it all and very shocked. It seemed totally in reverse to his reaction at the scene.
I googled online about what to do when involved in an accident and one of the first things anywhere mentioned was to report it to the police as an accident to get an 'incident number'. Without this any insurance company can pull the 'you didn't report it' card if later their client is in court. I called 101 and went through the rough details, it took 10-15 mins. They asked me to come down to the station to fill in all the information for the full report, I went down later that evening. As part of that report they double/triple checked I was ok, took a diagram and my statement of the accident along with how I felt the accident could've been avoided. As the other guy hadn't reported it, it felt very much like they were 'on my side' from the start. Towards the end of the report they asked me if I wanted to 'pursue and escalate things', unsure what this meant I asked, basically I could press charges for the incident. I felt this wasn't necessary in the circumstances, just wanted to 'cover myself' when pursuing with his insurance company.
Speaking to his insurers they were quite cagey over details, just took my report, incident number and said they would call me back as their client had not reported it to them... I followed things up with them 48h later as I hadn't heard anything, they had spoken to their client at that point and were happy to talk to me taking further information. I was directly asked of my injuries (as I didn't directly mention any) and I told them I wasn't after compensation for them (if I was they would need information from a doctor/hospital etc). Once again I confirmed I was not seeking a claim for 'personal injury', just compensation for the damaged equipment they were really, REALLY helpful! (almost overly so, felt like they were dealing with me as a 'client')!
I fired off a list of the damaged equipment (mostly clothing), with pictures of the valuable items, links to their current value on websites and copies of invoices for my original purchases. I explained the bike was at the local bike shop looking at the repair. My LBS were great and had offered to 'write off' the frame/bike financially if I wanted them to assist in covering costs for equipment if I had problems with the insurers.
The insurers emailed me back asking for a grand total of the bikes worth and for all of the clothing/equipment. The bike being a 'cheap' Halfords £399 jobbie and the majority of the equipment being DHB clothing it was an easy figure to total, £650, (with £50 in there for the broken helmet). A couple of days later they emailed me over a total of £750 to cover all replacements and a token of compensation for my day off work (not something I had asked for). Speaking to my other half (who works in car insurance) she said they would probably cover up to a £1000 claim like this without even thinking about it. A 'small price to pay' for a fault claim against their client. A Personal Injury claim would have course reach into many thousands of pounds very easily. Cars are obviously quite expensive to repair too!
YMMV of course, but I felt handling it 'like an accident', reporting to the authorities and being proactive helped to push things through. Allowing the system to 'do it's thing' but also helping it along. I had my 'compensation' money in my back account within 10 days (took 4 days to be sent from insurers). Then around 8 weeks afterwards the Police called me, they had visited the car driver as part of a 'routine follow up' and were then checking with me that everything was resolved. I got the impression that they were expecting to speak to the guys insurers as they sounded surprised when I told them it was resolved, money was in my bank and I was back out riding within 14 days of the accident on a new replacement bike (that I put some of my own money towards as an 'upgrade').
The 2 key things for me were him not reporting it (Police & his insurers both seeming to 'side' with me as the reporting party) and not seeking a personal injury claim (insurers very much 'sort it & not waste time' attitude).
Hope some of that helps! Guess I'm advising - report it to Police. Get them to get his insurers details. Report it to them. Follow it up with both and recommend the Police follow him up for leaving the scene of an accident. Totally down to them about pressing charges, personally I'd be more interested in dealing with the insurers for my bike compensation, rather than pressing for charges. It'll take less time & more likelihood of getting resolved without courts (which'll waste time & money, probably not even resulting in any compensation for the equipment).
WARNING. Lost post incoming of my experience after being knocked off.
One of the most important things is to log it as an accident with the local police force, they'll give you an incident number (hope you have that already?) and they'll (usually) ask you to go down and fill in the accident forms. This'll take at least an hour. As part of that form filling they'll look into 'blame' from your standpoint, log any evidence you have and maybe also ask about steps you wish to take against the 'offender'. If he hasn't logged the accident they should naturally consider he is to blame (and therefore likely at fault).
I was knocked off in 2014, a 'just didn't see you' from a driver not giving way to traffic at a roundabout. I was mostly unhurt as he'd hit the rear triangle from the side (& not my leg!) at fairly low speeds (~15mph?) sending me and the bike spawning. I was heavily bruised from the impact with the tarmac but nothing broken. Helmet shattered. I got the guys details and he was very apologetic at the scene ("I'll pay you for everything, do you want me to drive you to hospital?"). Stupidly although there were several witnesses, I didn't take any of their details. Limped home and called in sick to work.
Later that day I called the guy to follow things up, he "didn't want to deal with it" and gave me his insurance details. Was really off with me, offered no more apologies and told me he'd been told (unsure who by) "not to speak to me"! I was quite taken aback by it all and very shocked. It seemed totally in reverse to his reaction at the scene.
I googled online about what to do when involved in an accident and one of the first things anywhere mentioned was to report it to the police as an accident to get an 'incident number'. Without this any insurance company can pull the 'you didn't report it' card if later their client is in court. I called 101 and went through the rough details, it took 10-15 mins. They asked me to come down to the station to fill in all the information for the full report, I went down later that evening. As part of that report they double/triple checked I was ok, took a diagram and my statement of the accident along with how I felt the accident could've been avoided. As the other guy hadn't reported it, it felt very much like they were 'on my side' from the start. Towards the end of the report they asked me if I wanted to 'pursue and escalate things', unsure what this meant I asked, basically I could press charges for the incident. I felt this wasn't necessary in the circumstances, just wanted to 'cover myself' when pursuing with his insurance company.
Speaking to his insurers they were quite cagey over details, just took my report, incident number and said they would call me back as their client had not reported it to them... I followed things up with them 48h later as I hadn't heard anything, they had spoken to their client at that point and were happy to talk to me taking further information. I was directly asked of my injuries (as I didn't directly mention any) and I told them I wasn't after compensation for them (if I was they would need information from a doctor/hospital etc). Once again I confirmed I was not seeking a claim for 'personal injury', just compensation for the damaged equipment they were really, REALLY helpful! (almost overly so, felt like they were dealing with me as a 'client')!
I fired off a list of the damaged equipment (mostly clothing), with pictures of the valuable items, links to their current value on websites and copies of invoices for my original purchases. I explained the bike was at the local bike shop looking at the repair. My LBS were great and had offered to 'write off' the frame/bike financially if I wanted them to assist in covering costs for equipment if I had problems with the insurers.
The insurers emailed me back asking for a grand total of the bikes worth and for all of the clothing/equipment. The bike being a 'cheap' Halfords £399 jobbie and the majority of the equipment being DHB clothing it was an easy figure to total, £650, (with £50 in there for the broken helmet). A couple of days later they emailed me over a total of £750 to cover all replacements and a token of compensation for my day off work (not something I had asked for). Speaking to my other half (who works in car insurance) she said they would probably cover up to a £1000 claim like this without even thinking about it. A 'small price to pay' for a fault claim against their client. A Personal Injury claim would have course reach into many thousands of pounds very easily. Cars are obviously quite expensive to repair too!
YMMV of course, but I felt handling it 'like an accident', reporting to the authorities and being proactive helped to push things through. Allowing the system to 'do it's thing' but also helping it along. I had my 'compensation' money in my back account within 10 days (took 4 days to be sent from insurers). Then around 8 weeks afterwards the Police called me, they had visited the car driver as part of a 'routine follow up' and were then checking with me that everything was resolved. I got the impression that they were expecting to speak to the guys insurers as they sounded surprised when I told them it was resolved, money was in my bank and I was back out riding within 14 days of the accident on a new replacement bike (that I put some of my own money towards as an 'upgrade').
The 2 key things for me were him not reporting it (Police & his insurers both seeming to 'side' with me as the reporting party) and not seeking a personal injury claim (insurers very much 'sort it & not waste time' attitude).
Hope some of that helps! Guess I'm advising - report it to Police. Get them to get his insurers details. Report it to them. Follow it up with both and recommend the Police follow him up for leaving the scene of an accident. Totally down to them about pressing charges, personally I'd be more interested in dealing with the insurers for my bike compensation, rather than pressing for charges. It'll take less time & more likelihood of getting resolved without courts (which'll waste time & money, probably not even resulting in any compensation for the equipment).
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Keep all your receipts.
Go to the doctors.
Get well.
You have 3 years from today to issue proceedings so don't worry about it yet.
Go to the doctors.
Get well.
You have 3 years from today to issue proceedings so don't worry about it yet.
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You did read the second line of my simple 2 line post!
I read that second line but misread it as you were sympathetic to the driver and they left the scene because they did not see the cyclist at any point before, during or after the accident due to the twilight time and no front light.
Sorry!
I read that second line but misread it as you were sympathetic to the driver and they left the scene because they did not see the cyclist at any point before, during or after the accident due to the twilight time and no front light.
Sorry!
Apology accepted.
