Sorry. I'm a newbie round here, I don't think I've ever posted in P&L...
Don't apologise - just me misreading with my P&L warped-brain...
Sorry. I'm a newbie round here, I don't think I've ever posted in P&L...
And the rest of Europe - 112
Well done Britain!
I'm late to the debate, but just wanted to add my tuppenceworth/experience:I will add - same to me - roundabout, driver didn't look and entered roundabout without slowing and picked me up with her front wing...... police not bothered, no prosecution, although here is hoping her insurance takes a big hit.
Oh, and like Debian, no-one stopped as I was lying in the middle of the road.
The police were called every time, and every time they failed to take any action whatsoever against the drivers
Before last year, I would never have phoned the ambulance chasers; now I say "go ahead", because nobody else cares about your welfare: certainly not the police
Both. The police attended the scene, and I could tell they weren't interested from the start: they looked at me lying in the road, they looked at the driver who was saying "I didn't see her!". They basically took his details and let him go. They then came to me and took my statement, but the PC wrote down what he THOUGHT had happened, not what I told him (he wrote down the wrong road, ffs).can you clarify that the POLICE never took any action against the driver or was it a case of the Criminal Protection Service declined to prosecute?
Vike - if I found myself in a similar situation as Jaguar, and felt the police weren't taking my situation sufficiently seriously, is there anything I could do to make them take it seriously? Threaten to go to the IPCC or something?
After reading the above disheartening anecdotes, here's my update.
Plod came round today to take my statement.
Vikeonabike - Thank you! I preprepared my statement using your template which I then handed to Mr PC along with a number of photographs of the offending vehicle, my bike, the scene, etc. PC was taken aback but very pleased, he said that me doing that saved him a lot of work and time and that he wished everyone could be that thorough.
Anyway, paperwork attended to. PC said he intends to visit the driver tomorrow or day after and intends to interview her under caution. He asked how I preferred to proceed - full prosecution or some sort of compulsory driver retraining. I said I'd think about it.
No news yet from LBS re: repairability of bike and estimate.
So, we wait and see. I'll keep you posted.
Vike, you're clearly lovely, can't they clone you?