Personal Injury Claim after coming off bicycle on cobbles

now3d

k3lvc wrote: »

So if you're an expert on this why come and ask ? Contact a specialist cycling lawyer and pass the blame and cost to everyone but yourself.


To put it into perspective I'd still slow my car to walking pace in a tight curve with wet cobbles and if I skidded it'd be my fault

I was hoping to find a recommendation for a genuine & legitimate claims company... Google is full of them, but I don't simply want my details sold to the highest bidder. I spoke to Bott & Co Solicitors, they specialise in cycle injury claims.

Let me know if anyone has experience of a reliable personal injury claim solicitors.

lincroft1710

If black ice forms on a road and a car driver skids and has an accident, whose fault is it? You don't have to be going fast to skid on black ice or even white ice. Have you ever heard of an authority, responsible for a particular road on which there was an accident as a result of black ice, being sued?

Your circumstances are similar. Unlike the car driver and black ice, you had an alternative, to get off and walk.

A further point, how can you prove that you didn't fall off because of your own negligence in failing to properly control your bike?

I am not being confrontational, just pointing out what you are up against

Mersey_2

I've known Claimants succeed where cobbles were loose, but not merely wet.


Local authorities tend to use a s58 Defence if you instructed a solicitor to send a Letter of Claim.


Obviously every claim turns on the individual facts.


A district judge decides what is reasonable in all of the circumstances, as well as whether there was a system in place to maintain the road surface or pavement etc. Local authorities keep records. Equally these days cycling and disability orgs kept records of accident 'black spots' in relation to unprepared potholes and so on.

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now3d wrote: »

I was hoping to find a recommendation for a genuine & legitimate claims company

You are wasting your time expecting this. Only spammers and people who don't realise the forum rules against advertising would provide the name of a company.

Would you really trust the recommendation of some random stranger on the internet?

In addition, as the others have said, it doesn't look as if you have a legitimate claim anyhow..

Nearlyold

now3d wrote: »

Hello
I cycled over TfL maintained cobblestones on pedestrian crossing that the are at a junction, as I did I came off my bicycle because the cobblestones did not have any grip, and were wet.

I have some grazes and bruises, and a painful elbow one month on, and my back and knee still hurts. My bike was scratched and so was my clothing.

Could anyone recomend how to make a claim against TfL?

I don't have an insurance policy I can use to claim

Thank you, Rich

Best make sure you don't enter the Paris-Roubaix race/challenge.

Nasqueron

I did the Tour de Yorkshire sportive last year, was raining from when I drove to the venue and for the next 5 hours including a ride up a steep road on cobblestones, it was extremely wet and I ride a road bike with 25c road tyres (i.e. slicks) - didn't fall off because I was careful - if I'd gone off it would have been my fault for not concentrating

now3d

Well, quick update. TfL admitted it doesn't meet there specification. But they say the cobbles were put on the bend before their current spec was approved. So they will replace in due course.

A win as far as I am concerned.

now3d

prosaver wrote: »

cobble stones on a bike.
thats silly,
it made me laugh thoough..

Insightful!

I wish TfL hadn't put cobblestones on a busy main road bend (red route) too

ps. think before you post eh

now3d

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

You are wasting your time expecting this. Only spammers and people who don't realise the forum rules against advertising would provide the name of a company.

Would you really trust the recommendation of some random stranger on the internet?

In addition, as the others have said, it doesn't look as if you have a legitimate claim anyhow..

This is a renowned forum. I choose a lot of financial and insurance products based on MSE top picks - its actually the best place to come for recommendations!

Nasqueron

now3d wrote: »

This is a renowned forum. I choose a lot of financial and insurance products based on MSE top picks - its actually the best place to come for recommendations!

Firms are banned from advertising on here. If their employees work on here, they can only post on behalf of a company with approval from the site and cannot advertise.

If you want specialist bike legal services just google them, loads of firms do them and if you get the opinion of people about a specific firm you could then ask.

Meeting TFL spec or not (and I can guarantee the ones in Yorkshire were there long before TFL and people ride on them fine) riding over them is a well known hazard and should always be done carefully even in the dry, in the wet it's just one of those things you need to accept, not try and make it about blame as it was your fault, not the road surface.