Injured cyclist calls for drivers to pay attention after motorist hit her from behind, throwing her into ditch – but escaped police action

This was a few years back, but I was hit and run by a twunt in a yellow Corsa. He sped off and abandoned his car a few miles down the road. The yellow object in the pic is his left wing mirror assembly which snapped off such was the force in which he hit me with it. 
 

thsnkfully the police caught him and charged him with failure to stop, failure to report and accident , driving without due care etc. when the magistrate read out his conviction the list of previous crimes he had been charged with - to point out he wasn't of previous good character - was full of driving offences. How was this guy still on the road? He had 9 points and 3 other convictions for road rage type offences. People like this should be prevented from being in tbe road at all costs before they end up killing someone. 

I ended up in hospital last year after a careless chap didn't check to see if the junction was clear and drove head first into me. Another driver had narrowly missed me seconds before. Police only got back to me 5 days later after I'd chased it up and said it was a three way accident and no action would be taken. In fact I could potentially be charged with careless cycling because I took my eyes off the road to look at the first driver. I honestly thought I did something wrong until I spoke to Cycle Law Scotland. It's the only justice you get. I'm still so angry about it even after the compensation payout. This was in Glasgow incidentally so we can all delight in the horrendous policing across the whole country. I hope Lauren makes a full recovery and gets back to her best asap

A few months ago i was struck virtually head on by an 80 year old driver who had turned into my side of the road at a junction. Nearby house had cctv,which the police looked at,and confirmed driver at fault.
No further action by the police as " it was
an accident ,and you may have been in his blind spot ".
In some ways i expected this,but hoped that at the very least the driver would go on a course for an assessment of his driving.
To make it a little bit harder for me the police sent me the wrong registration number,a Royal Enfield motorcycle.

How, on god's green earth, can you do that to someone and the rozzers be like "nah, that seems fine".  

The level of negligent and incompetent driving that we tolerate in this country is mind-boggling.  That such shitty driving is normalised to the point where this doesn't merit any kind of police intervention is just mind-boggling.

It's so difficult because ultimately you can do everything to make yourself save and you can still end up left shattered in a ditch by someone abusing the privilege of driving - and that's what we need to remember, driving is a f-ing privilege, not a right and far too many people forget that!

A similar incident happened to a friend of mine. I don't want to go in to too much detail but the intervention of British Cycling legal team resulted in a disciplinary procedure against the attending officer as the Garmin on my friend's damaged bike showed he'd driven at 100mph on his way back to the station ! On another note my friend had to have an MRI scan as he'd been knocked out, it showed up a cancerous growth on his kidney that required immediate treatment, He's fine now, silver linings and all that 😉

This sort of negligence by the rozzers is what prompts vigilantism.  

Incidents like this are the reason I have cameras fitted front and rear, and one on my helmet. 

Please take more care..  Fuck that, I'd be following that driver in my car, waiting for the moment I could give him as much care. He drove away and only stopped when he realised he had been spotted by other people, and I expect if they hadn't been there he would have left her for dead. This isnt just police being useless, it's negligence and reenforces a mail reader opinion that cyclists lives don't matter.  

What exactly is the point of asking people who don't care to take more care? The only real solution is to treat these sorts of collisions for what they are - assaults. 

I hope that Lauren fully recovers and in time she is able to launch her business.

Words absolutely fail me reading about the police.  A pox on the driver, police and legal system.

After reading this and about the girl in Manchester, you wonder when the police and legal system are going to take this seriously?

How many more have to be killed, seriously injured before someone acts.  It is will beyond comprehension that they do nothing.  As a late friend said to me years ago, the best way to kill someone is to get them to ride a bike and he wasn't a fan of cyclists but couldn't believe how drivers got off virtually scott-free.

The Police have outsourced Road Safety to the insurance Industry. I believe that there are approximately 125,000 reported collisions on our roads every year. How many of these are genuine accidents and how many arose from from negligence (careless driving). Yet the police are not investigating and not asking the insurers for the findings of their investigation in order to prosecute.
I know a lad that has just written off his second car in less than a year since he passed his test. He won't even be on the police system.

"Degloving" an innocuous word, until you understand its meaning. Then it conjures up some horrific images (including the one above)

Really glad she is on the mend.

Really angry that yet another driver escapes police punishment.

Really happy their insurance company is going to screw them to the wall.

Utterly pathetic is how I would describe the police force in question. The legal system, and its players, are protecting criminals using cars from prosecution. This really makes you wonder about the state of our nation and reinforces the notion road crime isn't real crime, in the eyes of a institutionally pro-motoring legal system.

Insurance companies are absolute bastards when it comes to payouts, it's their job to be essentially, to try and pay out as little as possible in order to maximise their profits. If the driver's insurance has agreed on a five figure interim payment, presumably with more to come, on the basis that the incident was the fault of the driver, without contesting any court case or tribunal, then how on earth can the police not take any further action?

I don't usually advocate in favour of having cameras front & back but this is precisely the sort of incident I had in mind when purchasing a set.

On what basis did the police decide to take no action against the driver?  What gave them immunity from leaving the scene of an accident, and at the very least a charge of careless driving?  Or were they just never found...

"Police launched an investigation into the incident but decided not to take any further action against the motorist."

She didn't have lights or hi Viz
The driver does not remember any incident
Something, something only a cyclist.