It's a write off.

I did call them... they won't do anything. I'll call them again to see if he
has made an attack, since he is at fault and all, i dont want my slowly
building rating to be attacked.

 

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OK well you're 100% in the clear then. (I got it into my head you'd changed
lanes, sorry)
The double white line is just icing on the cake.
Clem
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DoinitSideways wrote in message ...

 

Make sure you also send a letter to his insurance company
not just him.


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i might just as well bend over now while the rich, dole bludgers and single
mothers take
turns fist fucking me up the arse!

Corks on a rant

 

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DoinitSideways wrote;

Well your third party property insurance is to cover damage to the other
vehicle so I'm surprised they're not interested (assuming the other vehicle
IS damaged!)
It's a bit early for them to decide he won't be making a claim. (I know he
won't/can't but it's surprising for them to be so off-hand)
Clem

 

In aus.motorcycles on Fri, 14 May 2004 10:32:36 +1000

It's a depressingly common way to get cleaned up. It was the death of
Clare's MZ for example. And I know of quite a few others who have had
that problem.

I dunno a good solution, except maybe if the cars in the lane to your
right are stopped, move to the left of your lane. Gives you more room
to swerve, and perhaps slightly more of a chance to see the car before
it cleans you up.

Zebee

 

Just be very suspicious of any gaps in the stopped traffic in the other lane big enough for a
car to come through.

I'm always wary of the Keep Clear zones on roads when in traffic as you often get cars
turning right from the other direction turning through what they think, is stopped traffic.

 

you're, you're

Moike

 

I don't think it makes a difference, unless the person who waved him through
is a cop. I think turning traffic has to give way to all oncoming traffic,
whether they can see them or not.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

Geez talk about paranoid!!! He can't "attack" your insurance. They won't do
anything until you make a claim. Most insurance companies will only take into
account years in which _comprehensive_insurance_ is held when calculating your
"rating". Most don't have any sort of rating system for TPO and TFT
insurance.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

And I doubt drivers have the power to override the law regarding the crossing of double white lines
with a simple wave.

 

I don't see the point in duplicating letters... If he makes a claim, he will
pass your letter on to the insurance company, if he doesn't make a claim,
they will probably giggle as they throw your letter in the bin. Before you
send the letter, call him and find out if he has made a claim, and if so what
that claim number is, then deal direct with the insurance company and you need
never speak or write to the driver again.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

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Fair enough.
(You've got a bit more experience at this whole insurance-claim thingy than
me.)
Clem

 

hear hear

smack

 

So what should he do if the other driver doesn't make a claim and
refuses to pay?
not trying to be smart here i'm curious as to what one can do in this
situation.


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i might just as well bend over now while the rich, dole bludgers and single
mothers take
turns fist fucking me up the arse!

Corks on a rant

 

In the past I have always forwarded a claim directly to the other guys
company , making note of it in the letter to them ,always been paid
after a reminder a few days later from the brother in law ( a Queens
Council) but an ordinary Solicitors letter will suffice.

 

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Of course, but I was responding to Nev's "Wouldn't matter what lines were
there or not..."
Clem

 

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Mike; straighten up!
You did a nasty you're to the right.
Clem
(Fuggin' written puns just don't work!)

 

wear?

 

.... especially when they rely on (aero)nautical terms in a forum
dedicated to motorbicycle afficionados.

Moike

(And to get it back on topic, my bike isn't a write off. Insurance has
approved about $2k of repairs to the superbike® after it's recent
unfortunate "topple into a Saab when the tar melted under the
centrestand" experience.)

 

If you paid for an insurance policy to cover you for such circumstances as
these, why would you not make a claim on your policy?

Nev..
'03 ZX12R