Vauxhall Astra E - near miss

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Thu 9 Oct 2014 01:05
Vauxhall Astra E - near miss - jkford

Hi all

My partner has an incident a few days back in a supermarket car park, a motorcyclist was coming towards her as she was pulling out one of the bay roads onto the main exit road, she didn't see the motorcyclist until late and had to slam the hankers on. She didn't pull out on. the chap as she stopped in time behind the white line, but he must have thought she hadn't seen him and fell off his bike at very low speed, causing no visible damage or injury, he took her number to contact her about the incident.

Because she did stop in time and didn't cause a collision is she ok to not worry about a claim, there was no witnesses. He made unnecessary evasive action, she feels terrible and is full of worry.

Any advice would be great.

J

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Thu 9 Oct 2014 08:46
Vauxhall Astra E - near miss - FP

"Because she did stop in time and didn't cause a collision is she ok to not worry about a claim, there was no witnesses. He made unnecessary evasive action..."

Is she OK not to worry? I'm not sure about that - her actions resulted in his taking what seemed to him at the time necessary action.

All sorts of appalling stupidity takes place in supermarket car parks, with people ignoring directional signs, not looking around them, making sudden unsignalled manouvres and so on. Maybe the motorcyclist was right to be overly cautious and assume the worst.

You now have to wait to see if he wants to make something of this.

Witnesses?

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Thu 9 Oct 2014 10:13
Vauxhall Astra E - near miss - jkford

There was no witnesses, unless he makes one up of course, I've heard people talk about splitting insurance claims with friends so they claim to be a witness, , I've checked for cctv and can't see any around the area. he was on a motocross bike which are built for bumps etc, he said he thought the front mud guard may have been damaged but everything else was fine, he only took her phone number and name, not reg number etc.

If he was to phone and ask for say 50 quid for the mud guard she's pay it to save any insurance claim but she's frightened he will say he's been injured, which he wasn't.

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Wed 15 Oct 2014 22:02
Vauxhall Astra E - near miss - 520i
Assuming no witness comes forward, your other half needs to simply dispute any claim that comes her way, stressing that no collision took place. If anything, I would think it's a police matter; allegation of without due care etc - but in that case the same applies, you simply state your version of events. If it differs considerably from the allegation and there is no further evidence forthcoming, the only sensible decision is not to take matters any further. Ultimately the guy threw himself off the bike, for whatever reason, you didn't knock him over. At the slow speeds one should be proceeding at in a supermarket car park and the general degree of caution that should be exercised, it's difficult to see how he ended up on the deck, but there we go. What would he have done had a child run out in front of him? I wouldn't worry, and I'd rebuff any polite informal efforts at parting you from your money as well.
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