Hit and Run !!!!

[skudupnorth]

POST 100 !!! back on bike tomorrow after the break due to the tosser in the Audi.Cuts and bruises are well enough to ride again so that is a nice relief afte being stuck in the 4 wheeled box looking at the back end of other 4 wheeled box's

Update from the Police: still on with getting the bod responsible but have not managed to speak to the driver of the suspect car but have got all the details of the company who owns it and the insurance company covering it. Just glad to be back in the saddle.

 

[fossyant]

Good luck tomorrow, and here is hoping the fool gets caught.

 

[skudupnorth]

Good luck tomorrow, and here is hoping the fool gets caught.

Cheers,thankfully i have another bike to use and yes i hope they do get who-ever hit me.

 

[knonist]

Lots join either BC (British Cycling) or CTC (Cyclists' Touring Club). You don't have to be a racer to join BC (I'm as far away from being a racer as anyone can be and I'm in BC) and you don't have to be into cycle touring to join the CTC.

Both are similarly priced and included in the annual membership fee (silver BC or adult CTC) is £10m third party liability insurance and free legal assistance/advice in the event of incidents such as yours. For not much over £30 a year it's well worth it IMO. It certainly was when my husband was victim of a hit-and-run.

The other thing to have a look at in the back pages of cycling specific mags such as Cycling Weekly and Cycling Plus, you'll see adverts from solicitors who are prepared to work on a no-win-no-fee basis. One that seems to have a good reputation as the solicitior is a cyclist herself is Alyson France & Co. I have not used per personally, but she has had good write-ups over the years.

http://www.alysonfrance.co.uk/index.html

She also has a page relating to your type of incident

http://www.alysonfrance.co.uk/accident_claims/what_if_the_other_driver_is_uninsured.htm

Other firms I've seen advertising are:

http://www.cycleaid.co.uk/site/home/
http://www.cycleclaims.co.uk/

But I have no personal experience of any of them, so can't say what they are like to deal with.

Hopefully I've given you a starting point though, if you wish to investigate that aspect of tryting to get some sort of financial help as a result of what's happened to you.

If I have bike insurance with 3rd party insurance with ETA already, do you think I should join BC just for the legal advice?

 

[skudupnorth]

Well i'm back in the saddle but typically it was raining ! Glad i'm back though as the traffic was gridlock city near where i live ( shame it was not a week ago !!)
One thing i never imagined was how nervous i was on the road,never thought being hit would have such an effect.Anyway done it,should be back to my usual self in no time i hope.

 

[fossyant]

Glad i'm back though as the traffic was gridlock city near where i live

That will be the First Bus strike again !

 

[skudupnorth]

That will be the First Bus strike again !

Oh poor mites,do they want a pay rise ??? should try working in the motor trade,no rise in three years Glad i'm on the bike so i can afford to commute LOL

 

[Tubbs]

Well i'm back in the saddle but typically it was raining ! Glad i'm back though as the traffic was gridlock city near where i live ( shame it was not a week ago !!)
One thing i never imagined was how nervous i was on the road,never thought being hit would have such an effect.Anyway done it,should be back to my usual self in no time i hope.

Yeah I was the same and I'm gutted I couldn't carry on and get over it properly (back is still painful).. Anyway, I think a few weeks of public transport is a much better cure - due to the bus strike today I had to get to train this morning which was late. The only train I can get home was cancelled! So I had to get a train to another station three miles away and get a taxi the rest of the way. Plus I had some weird smelly man sitting next to me, talking loudly and swearing at me.... I'm miserable when I get to work, miserable when I get home and I have no energy.

If, by the time I get back on the bike, I'm nervous again - I will just think back to this day.

Glad you're back up and running - and good luck catching the lowlife who did this.

 

[skudupnorth]

Yeah I was the same and I'm gutted I couldn't carry on and get over it properly (back is still painful).. Anyway, I think a few weeks of public transport is a much better cure - due to the bus strike today I had to get to train this morning which was late. The only train I can get home was cancelled! So I had to get a train to another station three miles away and get a taxi the rest of the way. Plus I had some weird smelly man sitting next to me, talking loudly and swearing at me.... I'm miserable when I get to work, miserable when I get home and I have no energy.

If, by the time I get back on the bike, I'm nervous again - I will just think back to this day.

Glad you're back up and running - and good luck catching the lowlife who did this.

Oh the joys of public transport ! If it's not scum upsetting everyone its the smelly person !
Todays commute was good but the wind is picking up and it is colder.
Hope you get sorted soon.

 

[KevP]

I know its not right but I still think the suggestion of paint stripper was a good one, I know its wrong but short of knocking this guys teeth out I, personally, would 'need' some revenge to be able to let it all pass.

 

[skudupnorth]

I know its not right but I still think the suggestion of paint stripper was a good one, I know its wrong but short of knocking this guys teeth out I, personally, would 'need' some revenge to be able to let it all pass.

The techs i work with have a better one ...can of brake fluid with a small puncture hole in the bottom.Leave over night on the roof of the offending vehicle......apparently even after all the mess has been cleaned up and re-painted the paint will re-bubble because it eats into the metal ! The Police have been very helpful and hope they can get a result,i am sticking law side even though it is tempting to go the other way.

 

[Sam Kennedy]

You should seriously go to that car and take a couple of quick shots, before they cover it up!

Glad you're better!

 

[Tharg2007]

if you get nowhere with the law spray "pedophile" across the front of his house, that way he will have to move house and and most likely have to take a different route thus not risking crushing you again.

 

[skudupnorth]

GOT A RESULT !!!!

Police have charged my suspect after he admitted he thought he had hit something with un-due care and attention,driver re-training and all costs from his insurance.
Guy said he remembers hearing the car being hit by something but thought it was a child messing aboutby the side of the road at 7.30am so he carried on without looking !!! He remembers a blue flash ( me ) in his side window but that was it.....truly amazing bit of crap driving !
Off to the docs tomorrow as i am still having a bad pain in my elbow when i rest on it,legs and arm have some good scars on them now but they should die down with time.
Looks like the dark nights are causing problems with our boxed in friends,be careful out there.

 

[Tharg2007]

Guy said he remembers hearing the car being hit by something but thought it was a child messing aboutby the side of the road at 7.30am so he carried on without looking !!! He remembers a blue flash ( me ) in his side window but that was it.....truly amazing bit of crap driving !

So it could have been a child he had knocked down for all he knew?
Im hoping retraining isnt all he gets