Taken out on commute home.

[User33236]

"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

The bold sections relate to how my employer deals with such things.

 

[classic33]

Annoying.

 

[vickster]

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.



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.

Ask to see someone else first in a location that suits you and at a time that suits, like a weekend/evening.

 

[Drago]

I just take my medical appointments as they come. If my employer doesn't like it they can kiss my arriss. They'd only complain if I didn't make efforts to get treated and spent loads of time off sick instead.

 

[User33236]

Ask to see someone else first in a location that suits you and at a time that suits, like a weekend/evening.

Will speak to them tomorrow adternoon and also have a chat with my boss when I get back to work on Thursday.

Only had one day off sick in the past 12 years. I think they owe me a favour lol.

 

[biking_fox]

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.

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.

Definitely get it added to the claim. All your out of the ordinary expenses. I had shopping delivery charges, bus fares etc all included when I had my collar bone broken.

 

[Ganymede]

Will speak to them tomorrow adternoon and also have a chat with my boss when I get back to work on Thursday.

Only had one day off sick in the past 12 years. I think they owe me a favour lol.

I really don't see how it's fair for you to have to take this as holiday. Others have suggested what I would have said, ie unpaid leave and add it to your claim. Good luck!

 

[andrewsdad]

Whilst on my homeward commute I had just started climbing the last but one hill when a elderly lady who had been sitting at a junction to my left, drove into the side of me. This resulted in me being ejected from the bike and ending up lying in the middle of the road.

Thankfully 5 cars stopped to assist me, and my ailing bike, to the side of the road and hang around to give witness statements to the police (who had been called by one of them along with an ambulance). Whilst waiting one of the witnesses, a nurse from the local hospital, kept me chatting and gave me a basic assessment. Her concerns were that she had seen me get thrown off the bike amd rotate round whilst in the air resulting in me landing flat on my back, hitting the back of my head on the road.

Ambulance and police turn up, the latter taking statements whilst I was being checked over. Turns out whilst I was being checked over a woman came from a nearby house and invited the officer in to view the CCTV coverage she had picked up. As a result the woman is now facing careless driving charges. Ambulance crew strongly suggested I allow them to take me to the local hospital for further checks.

Thankfully my injuries are limited to bruising to my right shoulder, five deep punture wounds to my left leg from the chainring. Its also likely that I have some deep tissue damgage to my leg also. After getting cleaned up and back home my concern now turns to my bike. This was picked up by my neighbour so I havent seen it yet :-/

On the plus side I have all witness contact details, details of the officer who attended, full details of the driver, car and insurance as well as contact details from the woman who has promised to send me a copy of her CCTV recording.

Written down I record of what I can recall. Ho doubt I can add to add when I retrieve my bike and review what my cameras picked up. Jacket and helmet are knackered, half a dozen hairline cracks across rhe back of the latter, and left show has a broken fastener.

No doubt I have forgotten something but my head isnt too clever right now lol.

Jaysus you"re one lucky bikest, old women and cars not a great combo, but doesn't it do your heart good that people you wouldn't know if you fell over them (excuse the pun as you've had enough falling over) in the street, all pulled together to make sure you were ok. We here alot about the bad things, never the good stuff.

 

[andrewsdad]

The surprising part of the whole exerience was the driver herself asking if anyone had a phone to call the police as she understood thst was normal if someone was injured.

She then let herself down by saying to me a few moments later 'you have acratched my car'. Yeah like I'm really bothered!

I had that happen to me, a woman turned left straight in front of me resulting in me going ass over tit on her rear door, unlike you the police didnt want to know they were too busy.

 

[User33236]

I had that happen to me, a woman turned left straight in front of me resulting in me going ass over tit on her rear door, unlike you the police didnt want to know they were too busy.

I was lucky I think that the phone call was made by one witness who is a nurse at the local hospital. They always seem to take that more seriously that a normal Joe Bloggs.

 

[User33236]

Just had email from LD. The other party have accepted liability and made an offer for personal injury. LD go on to advise that they advise clients to accept if the injuries are healed / expected to be healed within four to six weeks. It would also mean I do bot need to attend the medical appointment. The offer is extremely reasonable.

Certainly food for thought.

 

[Markymark]

Insurance companies:

Offer 1: What they hope you will accept
Offer 2: What the expect to to accept
Offer 3: The best they can offer you to make this go away

 

[Mo1959]

Fortunately never experienced anything like this myself but next door neighbour got knocked off couple of years ago.

From recollection, I think they offered £2,000 to start with but he eventually got £3,000 so may be worth holding out??

 

[User33236]

Insurance companies:

Offer 1: What they hope you will accept
Offer 2: What the expect to to accept
Offer 3: The best they can offer you to make this go away

True but there is also:-

1. What I would expect to get
2. What they offer

In this case 2 is in excess of 1 and also hassle free. I'll sleep on it (for long off a 13 hour flight!) and see how I feel about it then.

 

[Markymark]

True but there is also:-

1. What I would expect to get
2. What they offer

In this case 2 is in excess of 1 and also hassle free. I'll sleep on it (for long off a 13 hour flight!) and see how I feel about it then.

If you think rejecting an offer and then accepting one sometime after one for a greater amount is hassle then you must be richer than me but vive la difference