Some of you may remember that I was unfortunate enough to be involved in a rather unplesant accident involving a drunk pedestrian that ran out in front of me outside the Ritz hotel last October one Friday night/Saturday morning. The accident came out of nowhere, happened very quickly and ended up with one pedestrian critically injured, put into a coma, hospitalised and then one Jay with a badly damaged neck (landed on my head), one smashed up bike and one very traumatised girlfriend.
I’ve received a letter today from the Metropolitan Police serious traffic incidents department informing me that after six months investigation, they find that I was in no way to blame for the accident and will be taking no further action in the matter. I cannot tell you how relieved I am!
I knew I had done nothing wrong, but I had heard so many scare stories about pedestrian vs vehicle outcomes attributing blame to motorists where any regular person would stand up and say “er, no”. Luckily the system worked this time and I have a huge weight off my shoulders and can now look for some closure on it all.
I’ll speak to the Police investigator tomorrow to to see the state of things, i.e. the woman pedestrian’s condition and then most likely speak to Rider Support Services about pursuing a claim against the pedestrian for the damages she caused myself and Foxy, assuming it’s not distasteful and the woman is up and about, etc.
Be careful out there guys and girls, not everyone includes common-sense in their daily activities. Most of us think it’ll never happen to us, but none of us are immortal.
Well done Jay, fantastic result. Proceed carefully from here as you dont want to waste loads of time and energy pursuing something that is unattainable. Gets loads of advice before you embark on anything more as you dont want to waste time and effort with no result.
Huge weight off your mind, common sense has for once prevailed!
Pleased for ya mate. Hope you get to recover costs from her.