Dd hit car whilst riding her bike

[Sfuandtired]

Dd 17 has collided with a car tonight whilst riding her bike, she was crossing the road and from what I can make out didn’t see the car turning, she hit the car with her wheel leaving a dent and was thrown over the handle bars banging her head on the window, the driver got out, asked if she was ok, took her name and phone number, then said he was late for work and drove of!
Dd has since had a text saying she will be sent a bill and bank details for the damage to the car! WWYD?

Really? If I was the driver I’d be relieved that she didn’t hit a small child or elderly person coming round the corner and annoyed about a now massive expense incurred at someone else’s fault.

The fucking grifters in this thread are gross excuses for a human being

That relates to cyclists LEGALLY riding on a road or cycle path. Not one illegally riding on a pavement!!

The driver was wrong not to inform the police (or maybe he has informed them?).
DD drove into the driver's door so it's totally possible and likely he was approaching the main road at a slow speed and she hit him while cycling off the payment onto the main road. There could've also been a pedestrian approaching from the corner that she could've hit. Please explain to her to not cross roads like that and to always get off her bike before crossing this way. I was pushing a pram on the pavement when a cyclist did the exact same thing your DD did and we nearly collided.
She shouldn't have been cycling on the pavement and crossing the road without making sure it was clear first.
Thus you should pay for the car damage.

I'm sorry this happened OP it must've been such a scare and your DD might be out off from cycling for a while 😟 Glad it ended well.

Cyclists cycling on pavements - wether it’s a cycleway or not - have no responsibility to slow down or stop when approaching a
junctions?!

A driver say still at a junction who has a cyclist splat into the side of them because they were cycling illegally are always at fault and have broken the law

Stop posting nonsense.

Or people that just accept accidents happen? It why I have fully comp insurance and protected no claims.
Also have children, so understand they sometimes make mistakes/ have accidents.

But this doesn’t matter because it’s nothing to do with what happened. She came flying along the pavement towards a blind corner and hit a car. The OP says the car was turning out, so had already passed the pavement point. He had checked, the pavement was clear, then the road must have been clear as he was starting to turn out. She has then appeared cycling fast along the pavement TO HIS SIDE and cycled into the passenger side. You cannot avoid someone when you are already positioned because it was clear when you got there, and they come at speed towards your side.

Report to the police. Regardless of who is at fault there is a heavy imbalance in the way of transport used. He shouldn't had left her without a proper check. Commuting accident happens all the time and most of the people don't fly away. Concussion can make someone look ok during the sort term time and build up within minutes or hours.
At the very least the car driver lack manners.

Bless you, I was like you until I had to make a claim.

trust me when I say your fully comp PNCD don’t mean shit if there’s no other insurance policy for them to claim off.. my no fault incident was 8 months ago.. and I’m still waiting for it to be fully settled..

it’s with the legal department now.

But unless you actually saw the head being impacted, how are you supposed to know with a person who is seemingly an adult telling you they’re fine?

Well who the hell else made the big bike shaped dint in the car if not the cyclist who went splat into the side of it?

Good grief the exaggerations continue! First she went through the windscreen now she head butted the car.

I can’t cope with this level of drama llama.

Thank you for the blessing 😂 I'd only ever claim if it was thousands of pounds. It's cheaper to just fix things generally. Even when you are not at fault having a claim on your insurance will effect you.

I had to claim on house insurance once (ten years ago) So I've already learned that lesson.

Well I’ve learnt from this thread that if someone tells me the person who hit my car after cycling illegally is 17 I won’t believe them. Apparently some 17 year olds are 17 for 14 months 😂

So what is a car supposed to do if someone at the side crashes into them? Evaporate?

The Highway Code does not stipulate that pedestrians can walk into cars without looking and then blame the driver

And that law still requires pedestrians to stop BTW. They have right of way not a right to just step out without looking

Totally this. She might look fine but any blow to the head or face caused by a moving vehicle needs to be seen. Even if it's just for peace of mind.
I hope that driver's 'day at work' was important enough to be worth not making sure she received care, or was at least left with an adult.

Karma would be a huge amount of posters on this thread receiving anonymous accidental scratches and dents on their cars today.

Accidents happen when people are blatantly careless and sometimes accidents can be fatal.

A pedestrian on a pedestrians marked pavement should not except cyclists going like the clapper round the corner they’re about to turn. Even if there’s a shared use path, cyclist are faster therefore they should slow down

Seriously there’s a massive hedge the DD can’t see around, how on Earth can you excuse her going so fast when a vulnerable person could be turning that corner?

I'm now thinking of the plethora of posts with regards to school bullying and its "CALL THE POLICE THE AGE OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY IS 8/10!!" Yet in this instance the 17 yrs (and 365 days) is a minor who has no responsibility?!

Since it was a man driving, presumably he was speeding and so it is entirely his fault. He will be lucky not to lose his licence for hitting a small child and running off without calling the emergency services.

Sounds like your dd was in the wrong to be honest and I have some sympathy for the driver here . He was driving along when a young woman on a bike crashed into him from the pavement damaging his car and he must have gotten an awful shock. I m not sure he should be out of pocket here .

I can't actually tell if this is satire?!

I KNOW!!!! 🤣🤣 people on this site cry “she’s just a child!” When it suits

It’s why I pondered earlier if this was a 17 years and 14 months boy smacked into a lone woman’s car what the response would be.

Incan guarantee the responses would be

• He’s a grown man he should pay off
• Why was a grown man out this late?
• Wow so he made a woman who was probably a nurse late for work? Dickhead
• call 101 on your son OP and report him for assualt
• Disown him

This

<sniggers>

On MN boys are ‘grown men’ at 14 and women are children when they’re 20. Look at any Charles and Diana thread and there’s cries of “she was a child bride!!”

Except they didn’t leave the scene of an accident and no one was injured