Danger about to appeer from stage right...
Q I was moving past traffic that was stacked up on the way into Brighton. I was approaching road works that had shut off one lane, and as my lane was on red and the oncoming traffic had not started coming through, I was moving round the outside of the traffic at about 40mph. The speed limit is 50mph. As I was passing I saw a car emerging out of the traffic on my left and into a petrol station. According to the police I left a seven-metre skid mark and I banged into the side of a car. I sustained a broken wrist which healed up pretty well after about 12 weeks.
I went to the solicitors that my dad had used for years, because I did not fancy the solicitors that came free with my insurance and my current solicitors are saying that this isa 50/50 case. They are not specialist bike solicitors, soI have done my own internet research and been ona few forums and apparently I can rely on a case called Davies v Schrogin, which held a car driver entirely to blame in identical circumstances. The other driver’s insurers want to hit me up for 80 per cent as I was ‘overtaking by a junction’ and they have quoted a case called Powell v Moody from 1966.