Accidents. What do you do when you're hit by a car?

Fortunately not had to use them myself but Bikeline usually get recommend

http://www.bikeline.co.uk/

Hope you get back on the bike soon. When you do I would suggest joining one of the cycling groups. Everyday Cycling (an offshoot of BC) are doing membership at £24 per month. This gets you 3rd party cover to £10m and access to legal advice in it does go horribly wrong.

http://www.everydaycycling.com/edc/v2/membership.aspx

get to an injury lawyer. document all your injuries, write a diary, etc etc.

i was knocked over 3 months ago, had all my front teeth smashed out horrificly, £5k dental bills and only just had my new teeth fitted. I am now pursuing the idiot who did this.

You must document as much detail as you can, keep the whole event as fresh in your mind as you can. a criminal investigation will certainly help your case. Mine was dropped as the cctv they were basing the case on (no independant witnesses) was actually pointng the other way!!!! GRRRRR

anyway, get on the case with a lawyer, keep all the receipts and totals of losses you are incurring.

best of luck

We had an accident a couple of weeks ago on a club run. Luckily the lad who went down was OK and he dealt with the driver. Only afterwards did we realise he had not taken the vehicle reg. and non of us had used our phone camaras to take pictures. The driver did pay for damages but it made us think, what should we have done? who should have taken charge ?

Cycle Aid are dealing with my recent claim. I can recommend them. They operate no-win-no-fee so if successful the drivers insurance company pays the fee. It does take a few months but it is worth persuing, just as you would if hit when driving a car. You must get an incident number from the police which will also give you the telephone number of the accident clerk. The accident clerk/office will make a report which will be available on completion -this can take a few weeks but they should keep you informed of progress via letter and/or phone calls. The report will also list the drivers address and insurance details. Once the report is completed, your solicitor can persue the drivers insurance company for your claim. Keep a diary of pain/any hep you need with washing/dressing/housework etc and any scarring. Take photos of all injuries and damage to bike/personal effects/clothing etc. Take pictures of injuries at one week, two weeks, a month - to document if there is scarring. Draw a diagram of the accident as well as writing down what happened, the location, time of day, conditions and visibility etc. See your GP because your medical records will be required for your case. You may need physio - this will also be covered if you go private. Keep all receipts and/or quotes for repairs. Keep all travel tickets - i.e. if you usually cycle to work but cannot due to injury/bike damage, keep those travel tickets as you can claim for the cost. Prepare for your claim to take several months - but don't let that put you off.

I'm afraid i'm in the same boat. Got knocked off on a roundabout - the driver simply didn't see me. Fortunately there were plenty of witnesses and the police were called. It could of been worse but i've broken my wrist am in plaster for 6 weeks. The PC on the scene has given me the drivers insurance details but said he wasn't sure what the best route for claiming would be.

Cycle Aid are dealing with my recent claim. I can recommend them.

Do you happen to have a link/details? I'd quite like get the wheels in motion. I'm waiting to find out if the bikes repairable and i've ruined about £100 worth of clothing.

The best style I have ever seen was an elderly chap in Fareham who was clipped by a car doing a left hook... he lay in the middle of theroad yelling "my hip, my hip" in a loud voice and refusing to remove because it hurt so much. This gained a large audience caused total chaos with the driver having to direct traffic.

I had a very enthusiastic first aider who refused to let me move from the road until the paramedic arrived. Absolute chaos! At least it meant witnesses hung around til the police arrived - i'm glad they were called as the PC said it was likely that will do the driver for driving without care.

PS To the OP: hope you're getting sorted.

Cheers
Rich

i tell you what really annoys me is when pedrestrians decided to get in the fray

i was cycling 3 thursdays ago with a local group, did an XC ride and were riding back through a town and these 2 people (roughly early 20's highly suspicious chavs) walked out halfway into the road, saw us coming towards them, stopped and then carried on!? and 2 riders in front of me had to weave between them

they reached the other side of the road, on the pavement and one decided to step back out into the road, more importantly into me!!, sending me skidding down the road at bout 20mph

luckily i somehow managed to take all the abuse on my right arm with 2 rather savage looking cuts but not too deep thankkfully and not on the elbow.

Little damage to my bike, only really cosmetic, all 3 lights i had on came off (they can't say they didn't see me) one of them got crushed by another car but it was the worst of the 3

but i'm very luckily not to have been more seriously damaged or my bike for that matter, there could have quite easily have been a car bringing up the rear and i wouldn't have been able to do anything as it would have been the pedestrian to blame.