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I was riding my bike to school and stopped at a Timmy's exit to wait for the car to pass. I waited for the car to go but they didnt so i started to peddle and then the car hit me. I dont have any injuries and I wasnt wearing a helmet. My bike is totalled.
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Proper procedure would be to file a police report. Then you can take the report back to the driver's insurance company and you can get reimbursed. If you were on the road, you should have had the right of way. If you were on the sidewalk, right of way isn't so clear, (bicycles are not pedestrians on wheels, they are vehicles that are sometimes defacto allowed on sidewalks,) but you 'probably' still have it.
After the fact, the driver can deny it happened. Unless you claim some sort of minor injury, in which case the driver can be encouraged to pay up by the threat of prosecution for hit-and-run. Your best first step would be to find out the driver's insurance company and go to them with a quote for a replacement bike. (Take a receipt if you can.) Be ready to answer if you were injured or not; and if not, then don't expect much from them. At best you'll get a depreciated value for your bike, not a new bike.
Proper procedure would be to file a police report. Then you can take the report back to the driver's insurance company and you can get reimbursed. If you were on the road, you should have had the right of way. If you were on the sidewalk, right of way isn't so clear, (bicycles are not pedestrians on wheels, they are vehicles that are sometimes defacto allowed on sidewalks,) but you 'probably' still have it.
After the fact, the driver can deny it happened. Unless you claim some sort of minor injury, in which case the driver can be encouraged to pay up by the threat of prosecution for hit-and-run. Your best first step would be to find out the driver's insurance company and go to them with a quote for a replacement bike. (Take a receipt if you can.) Be ready to answer if you were injured or not; and if not, then don't expect much from them. At best you'll get a depreciated value for your bike, not a new bike.
Why are so many bikers dumb not use lights and not pay attention to cars?
Lucas
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Cyclist or bicyclists - not "bikers". Bikers ride a Harley & have tattoos. All it takes is one bad cyclist to give everyone a bad name. Conversely - the same can be said for motorists.
Thanks to a helmet mounted mirror (http://safezonemirror.com/ ) I avoided just such a situation this morning. A lady came flying up my left side - with a turn signal on thank God - and made a right turn DEAD in front of me. I knew it was coming - I could read it in her face. "I'm gonna pass this guy & make a right." It's called the "right hook". She may not have even noticed me - or thought I could go so fast - doing about 20-21 mph at the time.
Why do motorists talk & text on cell phones, apply make-up, drink beer or other alcoholic drinks, smoke dope & do God knows what else behind the wheel? 3,000 lb. car vs. 25 lb. bicycle. No contest. Another time I barely avoided a T-Bone crash because some fool ran a red light in a car. And the intersection was CLEARLY marked "Red Light Cameras in Use".
John 8:7 "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." http://www.gospel.com/bookmarks/Cast-first-stone-Bible-John-8-7/9383
There are FAR more fatal car wrecks per year than bicycle accidents/wrecks -even on a proportionate level. Only 17% of bicycle accidents involve another vehicle. 45% are "solo falls'.
http://thinkbicyclingblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kaplan_bike_crash_causes.jpg
18 years driving a tractor-trailer with no tickets, no wrecks & never placed "out of service" by a weigh scale or roadside D.O.T. inspection. Now retired. So what gives you the idea I'm gonna start screwing up now? I STOP at stoplights - even at 5 a.m. I at least slow down to a crawl at stop signs. Don't lump us all together. There's far more BAD motorists than cyclists.
Edit: Remember what I wrote about motorists NOT paying attention? This just in...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2398418/British-tourist-23-leg-severed-New-York-yellow-cab-swerves-avoid-cyclist-Rockefeller-Center.html
Quote from the article, "Authorities have not said what caused the driver to jump the curb, but the cyclist told DNAinfo that the driver tried to make a left as the cyclist was passing him.
'I told him, "Stop",' he said. 'He gets angry. He honked his horn and accelerates.'
So this dumb s*** cab driver tries to "get even" with a cyclist passing him, jumps a curb & severed a tourist's LEG.
Cyclist or bicyclists - not "bikers". Bikers ride a Harley & have tattoos. All it takes is one bad cyclist to give everyone a bad name. Conversely - the same can be said for motorists.
Thanks to a helmet mounted mirror (http://safezonemirror.com/ ) I avoided just such a situation this morning. A lady came flying up my left side - with a turn signal on thank God - and made a right turn DEAD in front of me. I knew it was coming - I could read it in her face. "I'm gonna pass this guy & make a right." It's called the "right hook". She may not have even noticed me - or thought I could go so fast - doing about 20-21 mph at the time.
Why do motorists talk & text on cell phones, apply make-up, drink beer or other alcoholic drinks, smoke dope & do God knows what else behind the wheel? 3,000 lb. car vs. 25 lb. bicycle. No contest. Another time I barely avoided a T-Bone crash because some fool ran a red light in a car. And the intersection was CLEARLY marked "Red Light Cameras in Use".
John 8:7 "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." http://www.gospel.com/bookmarks/Cast-first-stone-Bible-John-8-7/9383
There are FAR more fatal car wrecks per year than bicycle accidents/wrecks -even on a proportionate level. Only 17% of bicycle accidents involve another vehicle. 45% are "solo falls'.
http://thinkbicyclingblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kaplan_bike_crash_causes.jpg
18 years driving a tractor-trailer with no tickets, no wrecks & never placed "out of service" by a weigh scale or roadside D.O.T. inspection. Now retired. So what gives you the idea I'm gonna start screwing up now? I STOP at stoplights - even at 5 a.m. I at least slow down to a crawl at stop signs. Don't lump us all together. There's far more BAD motorists than cyclists.
Edit: Remember what I wrote about motorists NOT paying attention? This just in...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2398418/British-tourist-23-leg-severed-New-York-yellow-cab-swerves-avoid-cyclist-Rockefeller-Center.html
Quote from the article, "Authorities have not said what caused the driver to jump the curb, but the cyclist told DNAinfo that the driver tried to make a left as the cyclist was passing him.
'I told him, "Stop",' he said. 'He gets angry. He honked his horn and accelerates.'
So this dumb s*** cab driver tries to "get even" with a cyclist passing him, jumps a curb & severed a tourist's LEG.
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