Missing the Island again.

Looks like after organising to get to the island this Yr for the MotoGP,
I'll miss out again. My Cussins husband who I was getting a lift there
with has had his bike writen off by being rear ended by a truck.
The truck driver is refusing to pay up on the grounds that it's not his
fault due to the rider tailgating the car in front of him.
Some people have no idea!
My cussins husband wasn't hurt, But his 2000 CBR6 was a write off.

Aido.

PS: Have fun ya lucky sods!

 

The truck driver's story is unsubstantiated and irrelevant. It is clear
that the truck hit the motorcycle ahead of him for whatever reason.
Collisions of this type are avoidable if drivers are aware of the vehicle
ahead and allows sufficient space to stop if the motorcycle stops quickly.
Take some free legal advice in the first instance.

John Dwyer.

 

What better free advice could you get than from this group?

You can get all types of advice, from good legal advice telling you
everything you need to know
to go and get fucked, you deserve everything you got..

But as you say and what all the legalese says is that the person who hits
you in the rear end, is at fault, no matter the situation or the original
cause,
they should be maintaining a proper distance to enable them to stop in case
of an emergency

One thing I cannot understand is thte reasoning of the truck driver saying
the bike was the cause because of the bike tailgating the car in front
what difference would that make to his driving and if the truck driver was
keeping a proper safe distance between him and the vehicle in front, how
would he be able to ascertain how far the bike was from the car ahead?

 

Strictly speaking that's not true, but it's a pretty fair rule of
thumb.

JL
(ya gotta be careful with words like "always"

 

No insurance?

 

Am not !

JL
(bloody gratuitous insults, I dunno)

 

[?] Which bit of "Choose"; PERSONAL bankruptcy, pay-up, defend etc., did you
not undertand?
If you have appropriate insurance it's all handled already (i.e. you don't
HAVE to choose).
We're talkning about waaaaaaaay after that.