Legal aid for bike crash - how?

[avgas]

After doing a massive scan of the thread again I feel now I have a better pic.

DB you are correct - insurance payout was req'd

However with NZ attempting the rules from the states, and the principles of europe - you can't help but see where the failure points are.
Here is hoping all future life lessons are less painful.

I do however have to agree about the bashing here - but I guess its one of those "do on to others as you want done to you"

[breakaway]

It *REALLY* bothers me that all it took to fuck up the guy who got knocked off his bike is a bunch of incompetent cops who didn't give a fuck about what was in the road code, and they wouldn't listen to reason, and were more interested in pointing him out as the one who was at fault. Why? I don't know. Perhaps it was arrogance, or they were trying to protect the door opener since she was a cop. Even now, the door opener didn't get careless causing injury, she only got some bullshit $150 ticket for "carelessly opened car door". Pathetic.

He had to fight for nearly 6 months. Hundreds of hours spent worrying. All because of a couple of incompetent cops.

If that doesn't piss you off, then there's something wrong with you. Yeah yeah, I know that cops are people too and they make mistakes, but they need to be more careful when they are dealing with ruining people's lives like this and potentially making them lose thousands in lost wages and hundreds of hours of lost time trying to put something right that should have been sorted by the common sense of a two year old.

Now imagine a bloke who doesn't have the time and money to fight this, and doesn't have mates like DB and Patrick, and doesn't have/know of resources such as Kiwibiker. What would he have done? He would simply have to pay up. All because of incompetent cops. It took ALL THIS WORK to reach the outcome. And don't any of you dare fuck around and say it was a "tough case", and so the at fault party wasn't able to be easily identified. Anyone with half a clue that looks at the diagram posted on the earlier pages can clearly see whos fault it is.

[Patrick]

I guess some of the difficulty arises with, was it a lane or a parking lane? Was it an "available lane to traffic...? Then there were license breaches.... Even using this case as a training tool, I got varying answers, and from experienced cops at that!

Fair to say though, KBers pointed out some good facts and the answer was clear... in hindsight.

Perhaps they were looking after a mate, or perhaps the advice given to the junior staff was just mistakenly wrong.

Careless Injury was quite on the cards for the door opener.

Perhaps that needs looking into......