Slight mishap, who is at fault....

[Wyvern971]

My friend had a small mishap whereby he was filtering and a woman driver pulled out on him, saw him at the last second and pulled back in. Unfortunately the wing mirror was clipped (and when I say clipped I mean it was demolished).

As it was on a congested motorway, my friend just shrugged and kept going.

Who was in the wrong, should he have stopped, and should this have been reported to the police?

Filtering was between 15-20 above the speed of traffic, cars were not moving much.

[Chilli]

Filtering is perfectly legal, so therefore I guess the dumb bird was in the wrong as she simply didn't look.
Hunt her down, and smash her house/car etc to pieces....then burn the lot.

[Hyperion]

The daft woman should consider herself lucky she only has to replace a broken mirror!!
Hopefully it'll teach her to use her mirrors in future (Although considering it's now broken, there is a certain irony to all this).

[Tiffer]

It's difficult to say who is in the wrong. Yes filtering is legal, but so is changing lanes so it becomes a judgement based on events. There is case law such as davis v shrogin to assist the biker in these circumstances though.

The real problem is your friend has failed to stop at the scene of an accident. By law you're required to stop and provide name and address of vehicle owner and insurance details.

It will probably all come to nothing though.

Chris

[Sossige]

Tiffer said:

The real problem is your friend has failed to stop at the scene of an accident. By law you're required to stop and provide name and address of vehicle owner and insurance details.

Or you can report the accident within 24 hours at a Police station - he'd cover his ass by doing so. I agree though, likely to come to nowt. If bint didn't have the presence of mind to do a mirror check, I doubt she would have got your mate's reg number before he disappeared.

Soss

[C8PPO]

SO many people have SO many friends without computers/internet access....

Anyway, with a bit of luck, the car driver will be able to find a replacement mirror on eBay. Surely somebody will be selling one "for a friend"

[hornetrider]

When you say 15-20 above the traffic, what was the prevailing speed of the traffic?

I would have thought that if he failed to stop and she got his plate he could be in for a feeling of the collar, not very good.

[Chilli]

Tiffer said:

It's difficult to say who is in the wrong. Yes filtering is legal, but so is changing lanes so it becomes a judgement based on events. There is case law such as davis v shrogin to assist the biker in these circumstances though.

The real problem is your friend has failed to stop at the scene of an accident. By law you're required to stop and provide name and address of vehicle owner and insurance details.

It will probably all come to nothing though.

Chris

No it's not! She caused the accident when she failed to look before changing lanes.

[Stig]

hornetrider said:

When you say 15-20 above the traffic, what was the prevailing speed of the traffic?

I would have thought that if he failed to stop and she got his plate he could be in for a feeling of the collar, not very good.

Maybe he didn't realise that they're been contact?

[hornetrider]

Stig said:

hornetrider said:

When you say 15-20 above the traffic, what was the prevailing speed of the traffic?

I would have thought that if he failed to stop and she got his plate he could be in for a feeling of the collar, not very good.

Maybe he didn't realise that they're been contact?

LOL. Demolished a wing mirror? You'd feel that on a Goldwing!

I'm not being pissy by the way, just thuinking what's the worst that can happen. The worst thing is, he could get a knock on the door if said woman was of a mind to report the incident.

[Office_Monkey]

hornetrider said:

Stig said:

hornetrider said:

When you say 15-20 above the traffic, what was the prevailing speed of the traffic?

I would have thought that if he failed to stop and she got his plate he could be in for a feeling of the collar, not very good.

Maybe he didn't realise that they're been contact?

LOL. Demolished a wing mirror? You'd feel that on a Goldwing!

I'm not being pissy by the way, just thuinking what's the worst that can happen. The worst thing is, he could get a knock on the door if said woman was of a mind to report the incident.

see here btw http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

ETA - go down the nick, just to let them know what happened. explain that there was nowhere to pull over safely

Edited by Office_Monkey on Thursday 31st July 10:03