Another example of the Police not dong their job properly

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T.C. · #1 Post by **T.C.** » Thu Jan 07, 2016 2:49 pm

The Police claim that they have investigated this case fully and that the matter is now closed.

All the more galling is that the young lady has never ben interviewed to get her side of the story and a Sgt states that riders filter entirely at their own risk, rather than stating that care is required on the part of all road users, and the fact that the Highway Code makes it quite clear that drivers should look out for motorcyclists filtering, and the list goes on.

A formal complaint has been made against the Police, and quite rightly so.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/ ... -me-48747/

D-Rider · #2 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Jan 07, 2016 8:49 pm

I wish I could say that I'm surprised .... but I'm not.

fatboy · #3 Post by **fatboy** » Fri Jan 08, 2016 6:30 pm

Does the driver that 'flashed' the car out of the garage hold any responsibilty
for his/her actions?
Totally shoddy work from all involved

D-Rider · #4 Post by **D-Rider** » Fri Jan 08, 2016 7:08 pm

The thing is you don't "flash somebody out".
Flashing (in the automotive sense) is ONLY to be used to alert others to your presence. The fact that people misuse it does mean that it gets misinterpreted (not necessarily from the intention of the "flasher" but from it's true meaning).

Therefore the argument would be that the motorist that flashed was only showing their own presence. I doubt that they could ever be legally held responsible even if they share some of the moral blame.

The driver responsible for the accident must always be responsible for checking that it is safe for them to proceed .... which, clearly, they failed to do.

BikerGran · #5 Post by **BikerGran** » Fri Jan 08, 2016 10:14 pm

But of course it's always the bike rider's fault.........

Ther should be some sort of rule about what happens when the rider (or driver) is too badly hurt to speak to police. A friend of mine was on a roundabout when a van driver who wanted into the lane she was in, crushing her right leg.
He claimed she had driven onto the roundabout in front of him, and was believed. No witnesses stopped, they all wanted to get home for their dinners and anyway it was only a biker.
It took 5 years and countless operations to save her leg.

flatlander · #6 Post by **flatlander** » Fri Jan 08, 2016 11:42 pm

All similar to my own experience to date I am not aware of having been interviews by any police and the amvulabce didn't do their job properly and I'd reported the faults in the road surface 1 month before still apparently it was my fault