Andrew_Culture
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- The People's Republic Of Suffolk.
On my way home I was just setting off from an ASL when a car in the filter lane beside me clipped a pedestrian. I don't know if the pedestrian had stepped out thinking the lights for the crossing had changed or if he was stood too close to the edge of the road, but either way there was a definite WHUMP, loud enough to alarm the folk surrounding the pedestrian.
I used my bike to block both lanes of traffic till I was sure the fellow was well and truly back on the pavement and being looked after by the people around him.
The car that hit him slowed, and the passenger looked around, there is no way the occupants of that car didn't know they had clipped someone. The car didn't stop. I made a note of the reg number and text it to myself.
When the man who was clipped had finished reassuring everyone that he was okay I very gently said that the driver had committed a crime by failing to stop and asked if he wanted the registration number. He said he didn't because he was 'fine', but added that he understood where I was coming from.
The lights changed and he walked across the road with the rest of the gaggle of pedestrians, looking back at me for just a moment with a look of regret in his eyes. He didn't seem flustered or even embarrassed, he just wanted to get home I guess.
He was a middle aged man who appeared to be in good health, I think I was more shocked than he was.
So, the big question is do I report it even although he won't. When he declined the registration details I wanted to say that a child might be hit next time, but I thought that would have been unhelpful.
Ay thoughts? Should I just let it go?
I used my bike to block both lanes of traffic till I was sure the fellow was well and truly back on the pavement and being looked after by the people around him.
The car that hit him slowed, and the passenger looked around, there is no way the occupants of that car didn't know they had clipped someone. The car didn't stop. I made a note of the reg number and text it to myself.
When the man who was clipped had finished reassuring everyone that he was okay I very gently said that the driver had committed a crime by failing to stop and asked if he wanted the registration number. He said he didn't because he was 'fine', but added that he understood where I was coming from.
The lights changed and he walked across the road with the rest of the gaggle of pedestrians, looking back at me for just a moment with a look of regret in his eyes. He didn't seem flustered or even embarrassed, he just wanted to get home I guess.
He was a middle aged man who appeared to be in good health, I think I was more shocked than he was.
So, the big question is do I report it even although he won't. When he declined the registration details I wanted to say that a child might be hit next time, but I thought that would have been unhelpful.
Ay thoughts? Should I just let it go?
Luckily they were agile enough to jump out of the way but what if they werent 
