Hit and run actions

GeordieGeorge

Sandtree said:

You can hear a bike overtaking a learner?

What a weird question, of course you can. Do you think that bikes stop making a noise when passing learner drivers?

I know that some people delight in trying to pick jokes on perfectly normal stories, but you are being ridiculous here. It’s no different to someone saying “You can hear the bike as it passes the bus behind me.”

AdrianC

GeordieGeorge said:

Sandtree said:

You can hear a bike overtaking a learner?

What a weird question, of course you can. Do you think that bikes stop making a noise when passing learner drivers?

I know that some people delight in trying to pick jokes on perfectly normal stories, but you are being ridiculous here. It’s no different to someone saying “You can hear the bike as it passes the bus behind me.”

I think that might be his point.

A bike sounds exactly the same passing a bus as a learner as a qualified driver.

Sandtree

GeordieGeorge said:

Sandtree said:

You can hear a bike overtaking a learner?

What a weird question, of course you can. Do you think that bikes stop making a noise when passing learner drivers?

I know that some people delight in trying to pick jokes on perfectly normal stories, but you are being ridiculous here. It’s no different to someone saying “You can hear the bike as it passes the bus behind me.”

You need the second question to understand the point... the OP says things can be heard but the only thing he definitively says you can see is the bike going past him (after overtaking the learner etc). Having seen dozens of videos people have sent claiming it proves their version of events a large proportion don't... the sounds etc can be plausibly explained their story but so could other versions of events.

A motorbike approaching from the rear sounds remarkably similar to a motorbike pulling out of a side road when captured by a mono microphone inside a car with the radio on.

GeordieGeorge

AdrianC said:

GeordieGeorge said:

Sandtree said:

You can hear a bike overtaking a learner?

What a weird question, of course you can. Do you think that bikes stop making a noise when passing learner drivers?

I know that some people delight in trying to pick jokes on perfectly normal stories, but you are being ridiculous here. It’s no different to someone saying “You can hear the bike as it passes the bus behind me.”

I think that might be his point.

A bike sounds exactly the same passing a bus as a learner as a qualified driver.

That wasn’t the question asked though. Any normal person would understand that they heard the bike passing a car that had L plates on it; no-one implied that it was the sound that identified the status of the driver.

Someone was trying to be a smart-!!!!!! and failing.

AdrianC

GeordieGeorge said:

AdrianC said:

GeordieGeorge said:

Sandtree said:

You can hear a bike overtaking a learner?

What a weird question, of course you can. Do you think that bikes stop making a noise when passing learner drivers?

I know that some people delight in trying to pick jokes on perfectly normal stories, but you are being ridiculous here. It’s no different to someone saying “You can hear the bike as it passes the bus behind me.”

I think that might be his point.

A bike sounds exactly the same passing a bus as a learner as a qualified driver.

That wasn’t the question asked though. Any normal person would understand that they heard the bike passing a car that had L plates on it; no-one implied that it was the sound that identified the status of the driver.

Someone was trying to be a smart-!!!!!! and failing.

Anyway, why does it make the slightest difference what it was passing?

wazza99

I think we'll leave it at answered now. I feel ive done all i can in regards to the hit and run actions. I'll wait for the Police and Insurance to get back to me.
In regards to liability i'll keep in mind, The Highway Code says that traffic joining the motorway should 'give priority to traffic already on the motorway' and 'adjust speed to fit safely into the traffic flow in the left-hand lane'. not just come on without looking and strike a vehicle already on the main carriageway , then fail to stop and drive away.
Ps this was a dual carriageway....but i assume same rules apply. 

facade

AdrianC said:

Anyway, why does it make the slightest difference what it was passing?

It doesn't. I think the OP is falling into the common trap of posting what he would say to his friends in normal conversation, rather than the minimal facts that will stand up to the scrutiny on here.  Rather like when someone mentions the ethnicity, occupation, age or sex of the driver that hit them, which you would when talking to your friends, and the thread derails into whether they are some sort of -ist, rather than helping.

I actually think he is suggesting that the 'bike made an overtake of a slow moving vehicle and moved onto the dual carriageway early using the chevrons, and thus clipped the op whilst trying to overtake him on the inside.

wazza99

facade said:

AdrianC said:

Anyway, why does it make the slightest difference what it was passing?

It doesn't. I think the OP is falling into the common trap of posting what he would say to his friends in normal conversation, rather than the minimal facts that will stand up to the scrutiny on here.  Rather like when someone mentions the ethnicity, occupation, age or sex of the driver that hit them, which you would when talking to your friends, and the thread derails into whether they are some sort of -ist, rather than helping.

I actually think he is suggesting that the 'bike made an overtake of a slow moving vehicle and moved onto the dual carriageway early using the chevrons, and thus clipped the op whilst trying to overtake him on the inside.

The last paragraph is exactly what happened..well summarised. 

Car_54

wazza99 said:

Ps this was a dual carriageway....but i assume same rules apply.

They don't. But there are other rules which apply, e.g 172 (give way) and 130 (chevrons). Breach of either is a criminal offence.