Motorcycle Popo got SMIDSYed tonight

[FJRider]

Misleading title then init

Even riding his own bike does not change his occupation. You just assumed ...

[jasonu]

He's one of mine. He got nailed turning turning right by a car turning right out of the side road he was turning into.

The car was in a give way. My man was on his own bike on the way home from work.

Driver said Sorry Mate I Didn't See You.

Arse.

Broken tib and nasty degloving. Thanks God for good gear, or he'd have been a lot worse.

Did the car driver get a ticket for careless driving or something similar? I hope so.
If not, why not?

[jasonu]

Misleading title then init

Only if the title is the only part that you looked at.

[rastuscat]

Did the car driver get a ticket for careless driving or something similar? I hope so.
If not, why not?

He's going to, don't worry. Careless Driving Causing Injury, as is entirely appropriate. The crash gets dealt with by the Popo who attended, the victim gets the same rights as everyone else, the offender gets treated the same as anyone else. Fair to say that I'll be making sure that all the i's get dotted and the t's get crossed. I do that with any motorbike crash anyway, coz I give a shit.

Thing is, no matter what happens to the offender, my mans leg is still munted.

Fuck it.

[BMWST?]

Read the first post ... the driver was on a give way ....so NO. The driver was turning out of a side road. So if it was a T intersection ... (with no signs) STILL no.

,yes I didnt see you mate should actually be,sorry officer i am a blind careless driver

[dangerous]

He's one of mine. He got nailed turning turning right by a car turning right out of the side road he was turning into.

The car was in a give way. My man was on his own bike on the way home from work.

Driver said Sorry Mate I Didn't See You.

no one sees anyone or anything but them selves these days, as they pull out in frount of you they dont even bother looking at ya now.
Ya mans a keen guy riding at work and to and fro aswell, lot a hours in the saddle and around here its gona happen sooner or later.

I was down there a couple of weeks ago visiting the kids and was just about taken out twice a few hundred metres from the Station. I'm sure its not SMIDSY but rather SIDC (Sorry I Don't Care). Then I made the mistake of riding in the City, Jeez I thought Filtering in Wellington was dangerous the lack of care displayed by some drivers was shocking.

chch was a shit of a place to ride in pre sept 10. I avoided it as much as I could... now its just a cunt of a place and I wont ride in it and avoid driving there.
People think the world owes them every thing, ya right they dont care and road rules mean nothing, its biggere than the coppers so they can ony do so much I spose.

[Zedder]

Sorry to hear about that. It's not good when any biker gets the SMIDSY treatment.

[nzspokes]

He's going to, don't worry. Careless Driving Causing Injury, as is entirely appropriate. The crash gets dealt with by the Popo who attended, the victim gets the same rights as everyone else, the offender gets treated the same as anyone else. Fair to say that I'll be making sure that all the i's get dotted and the t's get crossed. I do that with any motorbike crash anyway, coz I give a shit.

Thing is, no matter what happens to the offender, my mans leg is still munted.

Fuck it.

I think if you hit a cop you expect to get royally rogered.

[The Singing Chef]

He's going to, don't worry. Careless Driving Causing Injury, as is entirely appropriate. The crash gets dealt with by the Popo who attended, the victim gets the same rights as everyone else, the offender gets treated the same as anyone else. Fair to say that I'll be making sure that all the i's get dotted and the t's get crossed. I do that with any motorbike crash anyway, coz I give a shit.

Thing is, no matter what happens to the offender, my mans leg is still munted.

Fuck it.

If you need a temp mate, I am more than willing to help out! I just need my license back.

[pritch]

I do that with any motorbike crash anyway, coz I give a shit.

For which, thank you.

The British Police distinguish between "didn't look" and "looked but didn't see". Both of which rate higher than speed as a cause of accidents.
Not sure if that distinction applies in this country.

Then again I regularly see "Looked but don't care" on my commute.

Variation on a theme; yesterday 1.30PM ish I followed a red Mazda 3, EWA488? through Fitzroy, the driver (male) was reading what looked to be a magazine or travel brochure in his lap. When we got to the Waiwhakaiho bridge he relaxed even more and picked up his cellphone and started texting or dialling while on the move in traffic. I was pleased I was behind him on the bike and not in front of him.

Hope your man heals quickly

[schrodingers cat]

Wouldn't it be nice if fuckwits like this got to pay a higher ACC levy into the future since they contributed to higher costs...

Oh I forgot - its a blameless system

Christchurch is a very frustrating place to ride/drive at present. The amount of roadworks and poor diversion planning mean the traffic density is well above what poor ChCh drivers are used to.
Just try moving anywhere from 2.45pm when the mummy run to school starts

[The Pastor]

woohoo, about bloody time

[Ocean1]

The British Police distinguish between "didn't look" and "looked but didn't see". Both of which rate higher than speed as a cause of accidents.
Not sure if that distinction applies in this country.

I'm sure it does. Thing is both are perfectly normal human behaviours, so while it's usual to villify drivers causing incidents which result in injuries they're no different to any one of us. We all have such lapses, our brains take shortcuts which allow us to handle the huge amount of data we process.

Interesting related piece in the paper this AM: http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/we...-better-brains

Then again I regularly see "Looked but don't care" on my commute.

I've rarely seen it. The only one I can recall was a Van loaded with guys on a PD detail, on the Hutt motorway. I was passing on the right lane, in reasonably heavy traffic when he pulled out with me exactly beside him, obviously hadn't seen me. I throttled up right onto the bumper of the car in front and eyeballed him through the drivers door window. He did a double-take, registered I was there, sort of shrugged his shoulders and kept comming. I couldn't go past, there wasn't room, so I hit the picks, hard. My left handgrip touched the back of the van a split second before my right thigh flicked a WRB post and the whole back of the bike drifted left a bit. I distinctly recall being puzzled by that last bit, was only when the back wheel landed again did I realise it'd been inches off the ground.

There's no doubt in my mind that if I'd been on the dirt bike rather than the Buell I'd be dead. To this day I can't understand how he thought what he did was anything short of premeditated murder.

RC, my best to your man, let us know if there's anything we can do, eh?

[NONONO]

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[pritch]

I've rarely seen it.

I don't see it so often on the Triumph, but it's almost routine on the moped.