Hit a bicycle with my car - what do i do??

spacey2012

Velcro_Hotdog wrote: »

Why does the OP need to call the police?

Please tell us you are not a driver.:eek:

Velcro_Hotdog

spacey2012 wrote: »

Please tell us you are not a driver.:eek:

Yeah I'm a driver. Obviously daring to ask a question makes me a bad one!

Quentin

Velcro_Hotdog wrote: »

Why does the OP need to call the police?

Read up on when you must report a RTA. Google will help. Amongst them is when injury is involved

If you are a driver then you should know! (Ignorance is not a defence you can use in court)

geri1965_2

Mr_K wrote: »

Take a deep breath, calm down and let the insurance deal with it, that's what you pay them for. Nobody was hurt and life goes on.

The cyclist was hurt! He may have felt "OK" after the accident, but very often soft tissue injuries can take 24 hours to come on. When I fell off my bike (my own fault) my immediate injuries were a gash to my leg and a huge bump on my head, but it wasn't until the next day that I felt like I had been run over by a train.

Velcro_Hotdog

So I went and read up on the subject and found this

Section 170 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 requires drivers/ riders to report to a police officer or police station that they have been involved in an accident involving in any of the following;

• any personal injury
• damage only, where the other driver/ rider did not stop
• damage only, where names and addresses were not exchanged with the other driver/ rider/ cyclist and any other owner of property damaged (even if the other driver stopped)

Taken from http://content.met.police.uk/Article/Collision-forms-and-reports/1400005513174/1400005513174


The OP said

I waited for a while, gave him my details (including him taking a picture of my car in case the details i gave were false), and then left him when we agreed he was ok.

So my understanding is that no call to the police is needed

rs65

In his first paragraph, the OP says the cyclist was injured.

Quentin

Velcro_Hotdog wrote: »

...So my understanding is that no call to the police is needed

You looked it up??

Have you read your own quoted extract??

Velcro_Hotdog

rs65 wrote: »

In his first paragraph, the OP says the cyclist was injured.

And then says he was OK. If he was OK no call needed

Velcro_Hotdog

Quentin wrote: »

You looked it up??

Have you read your own quoted extract??

Yes, what point are you trying to make???

Quentin

Velcro_Hotdog wrote: »

And then says he was OK. If he was OK no call needed

Where does it say that?

You cannot rely on what the victim says at the scene of a RTA as your defence!

(No-one can declare they are "OK" to mean they are uninjured when they have physical signs of injury!!)