Rear-ended and the driver tries to escape!

[Marmoot]

I told her that, but she still wanted to press charges.....

Pics or it didn't happen!
Solely for research purpose, of course

[oldrider]

Have you even read the thread? The guy takes off after deliberately hitting me. The only reason he stopped was because I parked in front of him at a place on the road where he could not drive around me. The only reason he took out his license was probably because I looked (and acted, and talked) like I would behead him if he didn't. If ha had a choice, he would just take off.

Frankly I don't think you did much for Kiwi/new citizen/tourist relations or even more importantly "motorcyclists"!

The guy did you wrong and you (and your passenger) were fortunate not to be badly injured .. then you continued to place both of you in danger, "repeatedly"!

What planet do you think you are on? An average kiwi guy would have got out of the car and laid you out for behaving the way you did .. right or wrong!

For all the right reasons I am on your side but for all the wrong reasons I think you acted like a pratt and got out of it lightly. JMHO dude!

[Smifffy]

Frankly I don't think you did much for Kiwi/new citizen/tourist relations or even more importantly "motorcyclists"!

The guy did you wrong and you (and your passenger) were fortunate not to be badly injured .. then you continued to place both of you in danger, "repeatedly"!

What planet do you think you are on? An average kiwi guy would have got out of the car and laid you out for behaving the way you did .. right or wrong!

For all the right reasons I am on your side but for all the wrong reasons I think you acted like a pratt and got out of it lightly. JMHO dude!

Probably would have shoved the camera up his arse too. NO. Sorry John not likely in the PC barista infected supercity of the modern NZ. Probably wouldn't even happen in Tokoroa these days.

[aderino4]

Just for the sake of dragging the thread.

To answer your original question, you can contact your insurance company if you need the damage repair; if they deemed it to be not your fault based on your story, the other party story and the picture then there shouldn't be any excess to pay.
Especially since you have full details of the other driver (license and car rego in photos)

However it may go the other way since they can fault you for stopping illegally in the middle of the road.
I don't have the expertise or enough knowledge of the situation to tell you which way it will go, the insurance assessor will be the one that will make that call.

Secondly, I can't actually see any damage on your bike on the pictures that you have posted.
It could be due to angle, distance and lighting of the photo.

[Mike.Gayner]

Secondly, I can't actually see any damage on your bike on the pictures that you have posted.
It could be due to angle, distance and lighting of the photo.

Or because any damage (or even any contact at all) was entirely fabricated by the OP to bolster his idiotic story.

[haydes55]

From a legal perspective, the driver could get raped by a policeman who gave a shit about road safety (hahahahahahahaha :killing me. And the rider legally only acted in a reasonable (legal term, questionable in reality) way to obtain the details of the fleeing offender.

If this saw court, charges against special needs guy in the car; illegal u turn, crossing yellow line, careless use of a motor vehicle, failing to stop at an accident scene.

Bike rider could be charged with stopping in the middle of the road if the cops were paid enough money by the driver.

Legally, I side with the rider in every sense. I'd like to say I'd act differently, but in all honesty I think I would have just abused him for a minute then go on my way, after avoiding contact.

I vote for calling the cops and insisting on laying charges "feared for your life" "such unsafe driving there is no doubt he will kill someone in a crash, if it ever happens I will be publishing this story in the papers saying how cops don't actually care about reducing the road toll". Over react, cops love that shit haha

[FJRider]

Have you even read the thread? The guy takes off after deliberately hitting me.

AFTER ... you deliberately continued to ride (with your girlfriend sitting behind you) where you knew he wanted to be ... (Does your girlfriend not understand that)


You are well off the moral high ground here ... don't put yourself in harms way. Police would just ask "Why didn't you just get out of his way .. ???" if it all turned to custard and either (or both) of you were seriously hurt ... (They would ask that if you made a complaint even)

Being "In the RIGHT" is no guarantee things will always end in your favour ...

[tobbera]

Frankly I don't think you did much for Kiwi/new citizen/tourist relations or even more importantly "motorcyclists"!
The guy did you wrong and you (and your passenger) were fortunate not to be badly injured .. then you continued to place both of you in danger, "repeatedly"!
What planet do you think you are on? An average kiwi guy would have got out of the car and laid you out for behaving the way you did .. right or wrong!
For all the right reasons I am on your side but for all the wrong reasons I think you acted like a pratt and got out of it lightly. JMHO dude!

What? "For behaving like I did?" I get hit from behind by a car that then takes off from the incident scene, and "a regular kiwi guy would have got out of the car and laid you out for behaving the way you did"? Don't really get what you are trying to say.

[Smifffy]

What? "For behaving like I did?" I get hit from behind by a car that then takes off from the incident scene, and "a regular kiwi guy would have got out of the car and laid you out for behaving the way you did"? Don't really get what you are trying to say.

I think what he is trying to say is in the mythical age of the archetypical kiwi bloke, before the internet and immigration turned everyone into metrosexuals, an encounter such as the one that you have described would have resulted in at least one participant receiving a busted lip.

The police may have arrived and bludgeoned you both with batons, written you both tickets and sent you on your way.

Those days are gone, and they aren't coming back, unless you get in quick and vote for Winston.

The bit about the cops batoning people isn't gone though, they still love that shit. It just gets more difficult because metrosexuals video/photograph them with their phones.

[oldrider]

I think what he is trying to say is in the mythical age of the archetypical kiwi bloke, before the internet and immigration turned everyone into metrosexuals, an encounter such as the one that you have described would have resulted in at least one participant receiving a busted lip.

The police may have arrived and bludgeoned you both with batons, written you both tickets and sent you on your way.

Those days are gone, and they aren't coming back, unless you get in quick and vote for Winston.

The bit about the cops batoning people isn't gone though, they still love that shit. It just gets more difficult because metrosexuals video/photograph them with their phones.

Yep something pretty similar to that!

[FJRider]

... Don't really get what you are trying to say.

Maybe ...

If you ride like like a self centered prat ... Who relies on legislation as it is written ... to keep yourself (and your girlfriend) safe ... chances are you (both) won't be ..

[SNF]

Sometimes all you can do is call them a cunt/give bird/horn/rev motor +150 points for all....... and then just carry on. Maybe hope and pray they learn to drive as well?