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Sounds like one lucky cyclist to escape with a few grazes and a sore wrist after being clipped off his bike at breakneck speed
I remember a time I was about to pull over and park in a bay while in slow moving traffic and had my indicator on for quite a while as I find it easier to accept that other drivers are idiots. As I started to pull in I heard a shout and stopped becuase a cyclist had decided to undertake me despite my pulling in with my indictor flashing he threw or dropped his bike on the floor as he was getting pushed into the kerb.He'd have to have a jet strapped to his bike to enter the roundabout after a car that's doing 15 mph, cover ground across the roundabout to reach the next exit, then get across the front of the already moving car and then be hit in the back wheel.
Or the OP pulled onto a roundabout without looking properly and clipped the back of a cyclist that was already coming past him.
I know which one I think is vastly more likely to be a reflection of reality
I think the fact the OP immediately offered to pay for the repairs shows his immediate gut feeling was that he'd done something wrong too.
BREAKNECK. So quick only a lady with super vision would have been able to spot. Luckily his wife was next to him and she apparently has super vision. Oh and the other witness.Sounds like one lucky cyclist to escape with a few grazes and a sore wrist after being clipped off his bike at breakneck speed
Well yes but that would also depend on witnesses as well.So it doesn't really matter then it's a pointless argument.
As far as insurance and the police are concerned OP is in the wrong.
Sounds like one lucky cyclist to escape with a few grazes and a sore wrist after being clipped off his bike at breakneck speed
No you contact insurance unless you want the driver done for something like driving recklessly or without due care and attention.
Then you call the police if you want to press charges. Otherwise it's medical and insurance matter depending on injuries.
Unless you think the driver is dodgy like doesn't have insurance or a license, etc could be various reasons but your implying that it's a criminal matter if you want to involve the police.
If you don't give your name and address, you must report the accident at a police station or to a police constable as soon as you can, and in any case within 24 hours (this does not mean you have 24 hours in which to report the accident). If you fail to stop, fail to give your and the owner's name and address or the vehicle's details or fail to report the accident, you commit an offence/s.
If another person is injured, in addition to the above, YOU MUST:
If you don't, you must report the accident at a police station or to a constable as soon as you can and in any case within 24 hours (this does not mean you have 24 hours in which to report the accident) and produce your certificate of insurance. However, if you don't have your certificate with you when you report the accident to the police, you can take it, within seven days of the accident, to the police station you nominate when you report the incident.
- Produce your certificate of insurance to a constable or anyone else having reasonable grounds to see it.
Well yes but that would also depend on witnesses as well.
https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q894.htm
Also, this isn't America, in the UK the victim of a crime doesn't press charges unless it's a private prosecution.
Lets not forget the OCUKer that had to pay out after some idiot cyclist riding well above breakneck speed with what could easily have been a jet pack on their back on the pavement and hit the side of their car while it was pulling out from a driveway. Whos fault was that really? And there was dashcam footage I believe.And op said the witness said that the cyclist had right of way and he was in the wrong.
So it's an open and shut case.
All this debating is pointless unless he magics up a dashcam and at least a few witnesses on his side.
It's a pointless debate because everything they will take into account says it's his fault.
The fact the witness said so as well never bode well for him.
If OP really wants to avoid this in future get a dashcam.
Learn his lesson and move on. Oh and drive more carefully too looking out for cyclists rather than just a quick glance for approaching vehicles.
Yes. It was the evil cyclist fault clearly.Bizarre thread. Hit the back wheel of a cyclist on a roundabout but claiming no fault. Cyclist might be a numpty but you hit him with your car when it was completely avoidable, case closed. Have I missed anything?
Bizarre thread. Hit the back wheel of a cyclist on a roundabout but claiming no fault. Cyclist might be a numpty but you hit him with your car when it was completely avoidable, case closed. Have I missed anything?
Lets not forget the OCUKer that had to pay out after some idiot cyclist riding well above breakneck speed with what could easily have been a jet pack on their back on the pavement and hit the side of their car while it was pulling out from a driveway. Whos fault was that really? And there was dashcam footage I believe.
Anyway I dont trust cyclists. Their eyes are always beedy and way too close together and thats never a good sign.
And op said the witness said that the cyclist had right of way and he was in the wrong.
So it's an open and shut case.
All this debating is pointless unless he magics up a dashcam and at least a few witnesses on his side.
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No Im suggesting it could have been the cyclists fault. OP thinks its not his fault. Its fairly simple if the OP was fully in the roundabout before the cyclist entered its the cyclist fault.tony edwards thinks it's the cyclists fault
I clipped his back wheel with my nearside