Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone here would be able to give me any advice following an accident I had last week.
I was out riding with a group of people from work (we've all signed up to do Pedal for Scotland, so thought it would be good to get some practise in). We were cycling along a road where the traffic had come to a standstill so we were filtering up the inside. We came to a junction -- normally I might have been a bit more wary of this but as I was riding with more experienced riders and the rider ahead of me went on I followed him. I checked and didn't see any traffic coming. The next thing I knew I'd been hit by a van that was doing a right turn into the junction.
It didn't hid me hard and I was totally fine -- the driver managed to slow down to a near stop and I didn't even come off the bike -- the van only hit my back wheel. The driver stopped and I got her phone number and email address. We also got a picture of the Van's licence plates. I didn't contact the police regarding the incident.
I checked my bike afterwards and there didn't seem to be any damage aside from the back wheel being a bit less true. I cycled on for about 40km and finished the ride. Since my bike seemed fine apart from the back wheel I wasn't really expecting any real damage, however the shop have informed me the my rear triangle is now misaligned and that the bike is a writeoff! It was a Cannondale Synapse and only 2 months old!
I have no experience with this at all -- I would assume that my next step would be to contact the driver and try to claim against her insurance? Does anyone have any experience of this and know how likely I am to have a successful claim/how long it might take?
Any advice at all is much appreciated.
Cheers,
Stefan
I was wondering if anyone here would be able to give me any advice following an accident I had last week.
I was out riding with a group of people from work (we've all signed up to do Pedal for Scotland, so thought it would be good to get some practise in). We were cycling along a road where the traffic had come to a standstill so we were filtering up the inside. We came to a junction -- normally I might have been a bit more wary of this but as I was riding with more experienced riders and the rider ahead of me went on I followed him. I checked and didn't see any traffic coming. The next thing I knew I'd been hit by a van that was doing a right turn into the junction.
It didn't hid me hard and I was totally fine -- the driver managed to slow down to a near stop and I didn't even come off the bike -- the van only hit my back wheel. The driver stopped and I got her phone number and email address. We also got a picture of the Van's licence plates. I didn't contact the police regarding the incident.
I checked my bike afterwards and there didn't seem to be any damage aside from the back wheel being a bit less true. I cycled on for about 40km and finished the ride. Since my bike seemed fine apart from the back wheel I wasn't really expecting any real damage, however the shop have informed me the my rear triangle is now misaligned and that the bike is a writeoff! It was a Cannondale Synapse and only 2 months old!
I have no experience with this at all -- I would assume that my next step would be to contact the driver and try to claim against her insurance? Does anyone have any experience of this and know how likely I am to have a successful claim/how long it might take?
Any advice at all is much appreciated.
Cheers,
Stefan