pedestrian hit by cyclist

"Ian Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Probably off topic, but may be of interest
http://tinyurl.com/bvg8u

Pedestrian hit by cyclist wins $130,000 in damages

VICTORIA - The British Columbia Supreme Court has awarded a pedestrian
who was run over by a cyclist more than $130,000 in compensation.

Justice W.G. Grist granted awards totalling more than $130,000 to Lisa
MacKnight, who was knocked unconscious and suffered a broken
collarbone and dislocated shoulder in a collision with cyclist Ryan
Nast nearly three years ago.

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No comment really, beyond the fact that I wonder how their courts
would cope if every case of a pedestrian being injured when hit by a
car resulted in a three year court case.

Yes but this was a civil case for damages not a prosecution for the offence.

Pete

Perhaps a friend of mine should have sued the pedestrian who stepped
off the kerb without looking a couple of years back, knocking him off
his bike and leaving him blind in one eye...

On 17 Apr 2005 19:40:19 GMT, Ian Smith <[email hidden]> wrote
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No comment really, beyond the fact that I wonder how their courts
would cope if every case of a pedestrian being injured when hit by a
car resulted in a three year court case.

It pretty much does. Insurance companies will delay paying until the
very last possible moment. I think it took me over two years to get
the first part of compensation (for the trashed bike) when I had my
worst crash, and the final settlement came only after visits to
specialists in London and all sorts of other [censored].

Guy
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On 17 Apr 2005 19:40:19 GMT, Ian Smith <[email hidden]> wrote
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Quoted message said:

No comment really, beyond the fact that I wonder how their courts
would cope if every case of a pedestrian being injured when hit by a
car resulted in a three year court case.

It pretty much does. Insurance companies will delay paying until the
very last possible moment. I think it took me over two years to get
the first part of compensation (for the trashed bike) when I had my
worst crash, and the final settlement came only after visits to
specialists in London and all sorts of other [censored].

Two to three years is pretty much par for the course in anything more than a
very straightforward case. One of the reasons for this is that the
limitation period for injury claims is three years - any court action has to
be started within that period, but it does not have to be started before.
Insurance co's will often protract settlement for as long as possible - I
suppose the longer they keep the money the more they think they can earn on
it, and in any case for bad injury cases it can often take quite a while for
the prognosis, and therefore the value, of the claim to become clear,
whether or not it gets to court.

In any event the delay doesn't affect the courts at all - cases don't start
in court, they only sometimes end there. Because they may take a long time
getting to court it doesn't mean they take any more court time once they're
there.

Rich

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Probably off topic, but may be of interest
http://tinyurl.com/bvg8u

Pedestrian hit by cyclist wins $130,000 in damages

Closer to home, a few years ago a woman pedestrian in York was killed by a
cyclist running a red light with defective brakes. A little more recently,
another woman in Bath was seriously injured by a cyclist who was held
responsible when she stepped out to cross the road while he was going
downhill at speed with a green.

Such incidents are only newsworthy by their infrequency. Motorists hit
pedestrians several times every day - often it's their fault, wholey or
mainly, sometimes it's the ped's - but it doesn't usually make the news, in
fact it seems to be accepted as wholey unremarkable fact, unless there is
something particularly unusual or nasty about it.

Still, I suppose they serve as a reminder that care needs to be taken around
peds, as if any were needed...

Rich

Richard Goodman said:

Motorists hit
pedestrians several times every day

Careless of them ;-)

Guy
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