Sheffield_Tiger
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Dayvo said:Bloody 'ell, Scratch! Only just seen this, sounds like a surreal dream. Or one of those odd French films!
You obviously watch different French films to the ones I do....
Dayvo said:Bloody 'ell, Scratch! Only just seen this, sounds like a surreal dream. Or one of those odd French films!
Crankarm said:This may have already been mentioned, but was there any CCTV in the area?
Take it easy and hopefully everything will sort itself out.
Scratch said:The policeman investigating my accident just rang me up. I've learned that the accident happened just off the island here:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en...XOy8DHfAIz6t-Cmdg0j1-g&cbp=12,237.33,,0,19.38
He said there were a couple of first aiders there when he pulled up but they left as soon as he arrived. There are no witnesses, the name and number I found in my bag is the driver. He also said there is no CCTV. So bearing all that in mind and with the only account of what happened being the drivers there is no chance of a prosecution.
I could tell the policeman had at least tried, he did say he was a keen cyclist himself.
Looks like I'm going to have to brave the civil route, though I'm sure the driver will just say I swerved in front of him, which is of course what all cyclists do especially the ones who are too dead or were to unconscious to say otherwise.
If the company are nice they may want to avoid going through insurance and just pay for the damaged bits and pieces, but I'll see what the guys at the solicitors say first.
So the moral is, if you have a helmet cam always wear it! At least it would have shown my road positioning and line if not the incident itself.
iamanidiot said:Sorry, the first-aiders/witnesses left the scene of a collision and the police officer let them?