Rear ended

Motorcycling
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Can’t believe what happened about 1 hour ago. There I was sitting at a set of lights behind a van minding my own buisness, when bang a van went into my rear Evil or Very Mad . So I got off my bike and the guy got out of his van and

I said " What was that for"
He said “I thought everyone had started to move”

Now the guy was stationary behind me for about 1min, so I don’t know what he saw.
We pulled over and looked at the damage on my bike which is:-

Rear number plate holder
Indicators
Plastic surround
The guy said he will pay for it as it only looks like about £40 of damage, so I called Simon at JT’s and he gave me a price of about £90 so the guy
said we will have to go through the insurance, so as I write this I’m on the phone to them.

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glad you werent injured…

some people really dont watch what theyre doing!

3

John i think you and nexus are doomed… Glad to hear you are ok :slight_smile:

4

awww, sorry to hear that. So many people just don’t pay any attention when driving :frowning:

Hope you get it sorted soon.

5

could have been worse, look on the positive side.

how do these people get licences !!!

6

Probably busy txt’ing, leatse your alrite mate, you can repair a scoot :slight_smile:

7

I thought you advanced riders always watched your mirrors :wink:

Glad you are ok after your rear ending ;):smiley:

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have you got any witnesses?

and he will regrett going through the insurance for £90 I bet

9

That’s horrible luck. £90 is surely a cash deal not an insurance one? He’s mad!

Good luck with the claim.

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Unlucky mate, weird that he would go through insurance for £90 would be sooo much easier with a cash deal.

11

Glad you’re ok.

12

Oh Buddah:crazy:

Sorry to hear this mate, were you wearing your Hi Viz Pink Wellies?:wink:

Gald you are OK mate, and hope it’s sorted quickly.

13

Strewth, glad you’re OK, could have been nasty. As above re insurance, odd.

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Lets just hope he is insured.

15

Glad you’re okay mate - hopefully the damge is light as you say and he has insurance…

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oh not good, :crazy:

glad your alright tho dude, damage sounds like it could have been worse too.

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Sorry to hear that John - Glad you are OK and the damage isn’t anything serious.

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Glad you’re okay.
+1 on the insurance thing. Did he give you his company’s details etc? What is the procedure in such cases?

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the labour charge must come to more than that, i would re check everything if going through the insurance.

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Not sure how you managed to stay on the bike, so props for that! But what an idiot! ‘I thought everyone was moving’… Yeah, I thought we were cage fighting, slap!

I hear about this alot, people stationary at the lights and someone hits them in the rear! Most of the time with serious consequences for the rider. Well definately claim for everything just insist on getting your people to do it, dont let the insurance company fob you off saying they got to do the work. In my experience (many hits later) it is better to take the bike back to the dealer if claiming off someone elses insurance, genuine parts fitted with warranty etc, and they wont play, it looks scratched it gets changed. all the best man :slight_smile: