back in June, on the m62 around 4pm mid week so busy traffic on my vfr800
tootling along in the outside lane (65-70mph). he joins at the junction then goes across all 3 lanes in one go and pulls into my lane barely a car length in front, car in started breaking as someone was moving in in front of them he has to slam on to avoid rear ending them, cause he's booted it to cross the lanes, i brake like
**** but cant quite make it and go into the back off him.
me and the bike slide across all the lanes to hard shoulder had to crawl the last bit with a truck coming locked up. the truck driver statement was funny "i didn't see the accident but i had to slam on to avoid running your client over"
he also said he was just about to swerve into the hard shoulder before he saw me start crawling.
bike was wrote off (engine case ground through) i've got a little scar on my leg, pants didn't tear or anything but the material inside gave me a graze/friction burn as it went down with the bike on top of it, John doe cargo pants i very much recommend.
he had a tiny dent in his bumper from my wheel.
van driver in the middle lane who saw it was the witness and he said he cut me up then braked and i couldn't do anything.
he's been denying liability since, but we've just done all the court paperwork and were ready to go, i was expecting this letter to be court dates when they decided to settle.
he said "he knew the braking distances for bikes" (and so left me enough room) because he had just bought a Harley sportster because he liked sons of anarchy so much....
this ones the same paintjob