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Post by neilf on Jan 2, 2020 8:41:13 GMT
An interesting article from White Dalton Motorcycle Solicitors; www.whitedalton.co.uk/motorbike-blog/2019/12/when-two-tribes-go-to-law/The hardcore, ardent, yellow flag waving Rossi supporters would I suspect fall under this 'other' banner; VR can do no wrong regardless of the circumstances etc. I like to think that I'm fairly impartial in most situations, or with most groups of people, until evidence points me towards a particular conclusion, but in certain cases I cannot help myself. |
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Post by mekon on Jan 2, 2020 13:07:16 GMT
I had this shit years ago when I had my first bike accident. Basically some cunt didn't want to wait in a long queue and as I filtered past (it was a contraflow and totally empty on the other side of the road) had decided to do a 3 point turn and fuck off the other direction.
I just expected a straight road with stationary traffic and didn't expect a bonnet to suddenly poke out as there were no junctions on the that stretch, so anyway cunt pulls out, I brake, cunt looks at me with stupid look and face and instead of moving off he stops the car , now fully across the other side of the road, I brake very hard and lose the front and slide into the side of his car. If he'd just gone we have missed each other.
Other than are you alright his first question was "is it a fast bike" I could already see the cogs in his mind. Anyway after reading various witness statements there was lots of contradictory shit including the person who let him out do the move claiming he'd seen my approach at speed. Why flash someone out then if you knew a hazard was approaching. I basically got told to roll over by the solicitors as they couldn't be arsed to fight any sort of case. One witness claimed I'd gone past him at a certain speed but as I said to my solitor if he was the 2nd car from the accident I'd already lost the front and was sliding down the road so his take on things was bullshit.
Lesson is.....don't crash as all the motorists in cars will blame you anyway.
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Post by neilf on Jan 2, 2020 16:25:39 GMT
The third party who knocked myself and my wife of my old 600 SRAD back in 2001 tried to pull this on me. Apparently a different car, which was 'full of his mates', was further ahead up the road and they said that I came past them in the opposite direction at well over the speed limit, very close to the middle white line. I may well have been done the former under different circumstances, but as my misses was riding pillion she said, during cross examination in court, that it was a 'lovely sedate, evening ride in the summer sun and that we were in any hurry to be anywhere!'
I was asked about riding close to the white and, after it was established that I was approaching a left-hand bend when I 'passed' this other car, I commented that had I been doing so, then I would've been maximising my field of view through the corner, looking for potential dangers. Apparently the police witnesses nodded sagely at my observational skills and concurred that this would be the correct thing to do when they were asked their opinion.
What really helped my case though was that the defendant didn't arrive in time for the first hearing, he had unreliable witnesses and the strong police evidence was always going to be against him; approaching road signs and skid marks left on the road from his car. When the postponed hearing finally went ahead, the witnesses that he brought with him were different from the original ones! We get the distinct feeling that the defendant thought that no one would notice because his witnesses and himself were all black!
I cannot remember the incident and all of the above comes from occasionally asking my wife about the day. All I wanted to know that it wasn't my fault.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Jan 25, 2020 12:50:32 GMT
Not sure I'd necessarily side with the "biker" if I was a witness. Most "bikers" I've known have been utter bellends.
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