Felstmiester
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My son was traveling up a long strait A road the few weeks ago and as he was I would say over 300ft away or more he noticed a car pull up to the give way line at a right hand turning and seemed to be waiting. It was a 60 limit so he said he rolled off the throttle but at 100ft the car was still waiting. My son was virtually on the junction when the car just pulled out. He said he had 3 options. Either hit the passenger side of the car, swerve over to the wrong side of the road or swerve to the left where there was a car and a bits width of grass verge so this is what he did ( it was around 10:30pm ) due to the fact at this particular point he was obviously traveling faster than the car that had pulled out he managed to miss him but went past him on the verge before the car started to slide to the right and skidded a full 180 and ended up facing the opposite direction on the other side of the road kind of going backward for a while and hitting a cyclist riding in the opposite direction to where my son was going in the first place.
I had a call from my son and arrived at the scene around 10 mins after it had happened. Everyone was ok gladly. My son was very upset and in a state due to hitting the fella on the bike. My son had called an ambulance the second it happened but the cyclist had a few scrapes and bruises but other than that he was fine. The fella that pulled out on my son was an elderly gentleman with his wife and another person in the car. He waited until the police turned up and was openly admitting he didn’t see my son in front of around 10 people that had stopped to help. I heard him say to someone “ I just didn’t see him” at the moment of the accident there was only my son the old fella and the bloke on the bike. Due to the fact the cyclist was traveling the opposite direction to what my son was driving he really should of seen everything. He did say to my son that it wasn’t his fault as I was standing right next to them when he said it.
So my son had no contact at all with the fella that pulled out on him he only hit the cyclist with the back of his car as it span. The police didn’t breatherlise my son or even look at his car. They sent all the people off that was nothing to do with the accident as soon as they got there and took statements from the 3 involved. We didn’t get to really talk to anyone apart from asking if the cyclist was ok. The police then told us to exchange insurance details with the elderly fella and we could go. My sons car had no back window and the tail gate was bent to oblivion. I was surprised they just let us drive it home.
I rang the old fella the following morning and asked if him his wife and passenger was ok and asked if he could shed some light on what exactly happened and he said he’s not saying anything because he’s always been told to not discuss anything with the third party.
We rang the insurance the following morning also and was told that the elderly fella had been in touch and said he wasn’t in the wrong and my son must of been speeding and the whole incident would be down to my son because he’d undertook the car that pulled out. I at this point got on the phone and disagreed. Yes I understand that the cyclist is the one at worst for this and totally understand he has to put in a claim against my son but none of this would of happened if the old fella hadn’t pulled out. My son is only 19 but I know my son and I trust his word on what happened.
The insurance are now saying it’s under investigation. It’s been nearly a month now and he’s having to drive around with his rear window taped up.
We have no way of contacting anyone other than the fella that pulled out. Do or will the insurance contact the police regarding statements??
I had a call from my son and arrived at the scene around 10 mins after it had happened. Everyone was ok gladly. My son was very upset and in a state due to hitting the fella on the bike. My son had called an ambulance the second it happened but the cyclist had a few scrapes and bruises but other than that he was fine. The fella that pulled out on my son was an elderly gentleman with his wife and another person in the car. He waited until the police turned up and was openly admitting he didn’t see my son in front of around 10 people that had stopped to help. I heard him say to someone “ I just didn’t see him” at the moment of the accident there was only my son the old fella and the bloke on the bike. Due to the fact the cyclist was traveling the opposite direction to what my son was driving he really should of seen everything. He did say to my son that it wasn’t his fault as I was standing right next to them when he said it.
So my son had no contact at all with the fella that pulled out on him he only hit the cyclist with the back of his car as it span. The police didn’t breatherlise my son or even look at his car. They sent all the people off that was nothing to do with the accident as soon as they got there and took statements from the 3 involved. We didn’t get to really talk to anyone apart from asking if the cyclist was ok. The police then told us to exchange insurance details with the elderly fella and we could go. My sons car had no back window and the tail gate was bent to oblivion. I was surprised they just let us drive it home.
I rang the old fella the following morning and asked if him his wife and passenger was ok and asked if he could shed some light on what exactly happened and he said he’s not saying anything because he’s always been told to not discuss anything with the third party.
We rang the insurance the following morning also and was told that the elderly fella had been in touch and said he wasn’t in the wrong and my son must of been speeding and the whole incident would be down to my son because he’d undertook the car that pulled out. I at this point got on the phone and disagreed. Yes I understand that the cyclist is the one at worst for this and totally understand he has to put in a claim against my son but none of this would of happened if the old fella hadn’t pulled out. My son is only 19 but I know my son and I trust his word on what happened.
The insurance are now saying it’s under investigation. It’s been nearly a month now and he’s having to drive around with his rear window taped up.
We have no way of contacting anyone other than the fella that pulled out. Do or will the insurance contact the police regarding statements??
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