Taken out on commute home.

[vickster]

Can you get such things?

 

[Ganymede]

Just seen this @User33236 - sounds awful. Really hope you get well soon. I was pleased to see how much help you got at the roadside.

I've no more advice to add to the excellent comments already given above, but (gently!).

 

[Racing roadkill]

A very similar thing has happened to me three times this year. The last one was last weekend. I've got yet another broken rib. It's one of the big ones at the top of my rib cage, so it hurts a bit, but I can still ride okay. It's absolutely bloody ridiculous that these incompetent cretins are driving on our roads. The next time someone does this to me, they are going to wish they hadn't been born. The last one to drive into me, actually made eye contact with me as I approached, then drove straight into me, then said it was my problem, because I got to the junction a lot quicker than he expected. FFS, what a class one dickhead . Anyway, I hope you're not too shaken up / injured, and you get a new bike out of her insurance company .

 

[User33236]

The last one to drive into me, actually made eye contact with me as I approached, then drove straight into me, then said it was my problem, because I got to the junction a lot quicker than he expected. FFS, what a class one dickhead . .

In my case the driver told me she had seen me and thought she had seen my indicator going. When I pointed out that 99.999% of bicylecs do not have indicators she replied 'must have been the car behind you then'!!! She even repeated this in her statement to the police which helps me.

 

[Arjimlad]

A no-comment interview might have been a better choice for her !

I hope she is prosecuted.

 

[Arjimlad]

Oops, I saw in the first post that she is to be reported for careless driving.

 

[User33236]

Oops, I saw in the first post that she is to be reported for careless driving.

I am hoping that is the case but the way things go you can never be certain.

 

[User33236]

Just received email and voicemail from the appointed independant doctor appointed to the case. The time and date of the proposed appointment means I would have to take a day off work as annual leave and incur expenses to get there.

I am already heavily committed with annual leave for the current year and any remaining is extremely valuable to me. Does anyone have any experience of this type of situation and what my options may be?

 

[fossyant]

Take it as a medical appointment. Depends upon your employer though

 

[User33236]

Take it as a medical appointment. Depends upon your employer though

Beleive it or not my employer, an NHS Trust, requires I take leave for it.

 

[vickster]

Just received email and voicemail from the appointed independant doctor appointed to the case. The time and date of the proposed appointment means I would have to take a day off work as annual leave and incur expenses to get there.

I am already heavily committed with annual leave for the current year and any remaining is extremely valuable to me. Does anyone have any experience of this type of situation and what my options may be?

Ask them to change it to a time that suits you. I saw the specialist (second time round) on a Saturday. What sort of Dr is it (GP?) - there will be one who can see you at the weekend or evening. In my experience, these appointments don't take long. Cursory check, a few questions and then they'll review the medical notes later.

I reckon my appointments with the orthopaedic guy lasted 5 minutes each! Call Doctors Chambers (that's who Leigh Day use) and ask them to find someone else locally at a more convenient time, you may just need to wait longer. They have a long database of Drs who do medico-legal work. It'll be getting the records from the hospital/GP that will take ages. 3 months passed between my assessment and my receiving the report!

Or can you take unpaid leave and then get LD to add it to the claim?

 

[vickster]

I was quite fortunate in that all of my three appointments were within a 15 minute drive of home. They should fix you up with the most local they can

 

[vickster]

Odd, presumably you had to see someone extremely specialised? I saw a lower limb ortho (a colleague actually of the surgeon who operated on me) and a clinical psychologist - two a penny!

I think Doctors Chambers have pretty much every specialist on their list, DK who S&G use. I assume the OP is seeing a GP. I only saw an ortho as I had orthopaedic surgery

 

[classic33]

Just received email and voicemail from the appointed independant doctor appointed to the case. The time and date of the proposed appointment means I would have to take a day off work as annual leave and incur expenses to get there.

I am already heavily committed with annual leave for the current year and any remaining is extremely valuable to me. Does anyone have any experience of this type of situation and what my options may be?

"Your employer may allow you time off work to visit the doctor or dentist but they are not legally required to do so unless your contract of employment says they are. Your employer can, for example, insist that you make these visits outside work hours, that you take holiday leave or that you make the time up later on. You should check your contract of employment to see what rights you have to take time off for doctors or dental appointments."

Source: CAB

 

[User33236]

Ask them to change it to a time that suits you. I saw the specialist (second time round) on a Saturday. What sort of Dr is it (GP?) - there will be one who can see you at the weekend or evening. In my experience, these appointments don't take long. Cursory check, a few questions and then they'll review the medical notes later.

I reckon my appointments with the orthopaedic guy lasted 5 minutes each! Call Doctors Chambers (that's who Leigh Day use) and ask them to find someone else locally at a more convenient time, you may just need to wait longer. They have a long database of Drs who do medico-legal work. It'll be getting the records from the hospital/GP that will take ages. 3 months passed between my assessment and my receiving the report!

Or can you take unpaid leave and then get LD to add it to the claim?

This is one of the Doctors Chambers people. Whilst they are nit far away it is right inbthe centre of the most expensive part of town at the busiest time of day.

If you have to take leave, paid or unpaid, add the cost plus travel plus inconvenience to your list of expenses. The insurance claim should put you back in the position you were before the collision happened, and if you've lost a day's holiday through no fault of your own you should be compensated.

Unpaid leave is an option I have considered. I guess I should discuss with LD what they advise prior to makng that choice though. Wont be able to do that until tomorroe afternoon though.