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I a 15 year old is riding hi pedal bike to school and he is comming off the sidewalk to cross a side road and a vehicle is comming down the side road and the 15 year old stops and sees the car and thinks the driver signals him to cross and as he starts to cross the driver continues forward and hits the 15 year old?? Then the driver stops gets out asks the 15 yr old for his cell # and leaves the screen. (the 15 yr was not badly hurt - druised bone on his knee and the bike was not ridable)... Who is a fault? and it is this right..... The cop (only notified by the 15 yr olds parents) 5 weeks later issued the 15 yr old 3 written warnings (no helmet, on the sidewalk, & wrong side of road) the driver who left the scene didn't get in any trouble at all. The cop didn't want the 15 yr olds parents to let the insurance company know and said that if the parents reported it to the insurance compamy that he would issue the 15 yr old written warnings...& he did 2 days later without parents You can't ride your bicycle on the sidewalk, and you need to ride on the right side of the road. You must yield the right of way to vehicles on the roadway if you are crossing. It doesn't matter if you think that the driver signalled you. It is unfortunate, but the bicycle rider is as fault. A bicycle is treated the same was a a car as far as traffic laws go,and you have to folllow them (stop signs, red lights, signalling). It sounds like it was a misunderstanding between you and the driver of the car, however if this was an accident between two vehicles, I would charge the person driving the car that crossed into the path of the other one. The vehicle travelling on the street has the right of way. It is up to vehicles crossing the street to make sure that they can do it safely. It is only a fail to remain accident if the person takes off without leaving any information. I'm guessing that the driver of the car did, because the police have talked to the driver (since the bicylce rider received warnings). It seems like the driver should have offered the a ride at least considering your bike was broken, but then again, maybe he did. You are writting this like it happened to another person so can you be sure of the details? Police officers do not tell people not to call the insurance company, we don't give a hoot whether or not people call the insurance company or not. It sounds like the officer knew that you were at fault. The officer probably didn't want to do it, however he/she could be called to task by a supervisor about why he/she didn't. The officer probably inquired as to whether you were going to make a claim on the driver's insurance and decided to give the warnings to show that he/she had done his/her job properly. It is also possible that the car driver was insisting that something be done and was threatening to file a complaint against the officer if he/she didn't to their job properly. Here in Ontario, Canada we are under no obligation to contact parents of a 15 year old if we give them a ticket, only if they are charged criminally. You are lucky you have warnings where you are, I would've had no choice but to give you the tickets (we have no "official" written warnings here). Source(s): Canadian Copper It was my son on the bike. I did end up contacting the insurance company and 2 days later (6 weeks after this happened) the officer showed up and issued three written warnings. The driver still got nothing for leaving the scene of an accident and not reporting it. Thanks for your input...... thanks i have to say 50/50 the kid should of been wearing safety gear and its the police fault for not notifying the childs parents. |
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