On Jan 24, 2010, at 3:59 PM, NickBull wrote:
To the OP: Hope you recover fast and that neither your injuries nor
your bikes are serious.
Several have posted about trying to get your auto insurance company to
recover from the other "driver". Since you were on your bike, there's
a good chance
To the OP: Hope you recover fast and that neither your injuries nor
your bikes are serious.
Several have posted about trying to get your auto insurance company to
recover from the other "driver". Since you were on your bike, there's
a good chance that your auto insurance company is not involved
Jim, I'm sorry to hear about your accident. In addition to being in a
lot of pain and having your life turned upside down, I'm sure it was,
or maybe still is, pretty scary. It certainly would be to me.
It's hard to breath with broken ribs, so I wont say take a deep
breath, but do count to ten, a
Jim,
Check out bicyclelawyer.com. Atty Gary Brustin specializes in cases
like yours. I'm a League Cycling Instructor and based on your
description, you had the right of way. The fact that traffic to the
left of you created a gap to accomodate this left-turning SUV is
irrelevant. You still had th
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 07:25, Gary wrote:
> In my opinion from what I've learned - you may be at fault. Riding,
> passing on the right through an intersection and not merging into the
> lane with traffic where you probably should have been. There was no
> bike lane marked and even if there was, g
On Jan 24, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Gary wrote:
In my opinion from what I've learned - you may be at fault. Riding,
passing on the right through an intersection and not merging into the
lane with traffic where you probably should have been. There was no
bike lane marked and even if there was, given th
Hi Jim,
Glad your OK. I live in SoCal and have taken a great interest in
educating myself with regard to riding safely. I've learned alot in
the past 2 years since I too was hit. I've been cycling for 29 years
and thought I new how to ride in traffic until I took a safety class
through the League.
Seth, thank you for the advice. And I have many other people to thank for
advice and good wishes, so I'll get to those replies in a bit (still a bit slow
due to the concussion). I really appreciate it.
I also forgot to mention that people should reply off-list about this, as it
can easily get o
best wishes for a speedy recovery.
what is the law in this situation? from CA DMV bicycle rules and
safety http://www.dmv.ca.gov/about/bicycle.htm , "Bicycles riders
(cyclists) on public streets have the same rights and responsibilities
as automobile drivers and are subject to the same rules and
James - I have no advice... but I'm sorry to hear you've had to go
through this. An SUV, of course!
Just glad you're OK.
See you soon.
-esteban
On Jan 23, 3:35 pm, Seth wrote:
> James,
>
> It's good the accident was not more serious.
>
> You should definitely file a claim through your insuranc
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