Nephew Down.

Sorry to hear such awful news.... best wishes to your nephew for a speedy recovery, glad the injuries aren`t worse.

[Dave20046]

glad he's ok must have been distressing seeing the blood. Did his lid not fit right or something? Hope he gets well soon anyway.

Jeez, sorry to hear about the off man, how are you holding up in the aftermath?

Firstly mate, glad your nephews going to be ok.
And you as well it must have been horrible seeing that when in your profession you'll have seen what could have been going wrong suprised the fear didnt scare you stiff, well done that man!

Bike stuff YC has touched on what I'd have pondered. If the forks are bent severly then he obviously impacted something pretty hard anyway but if the forks dont look too bad but the frame has sheared from the headstock then provided the bike hasnt missed the re-call then id be thinking £££££ id be thinking even more £££££ if it has been for the re-call but then still failed anyway.

Did he hit the on coming car? Im not sure if I read it correctly but if he did and the car was coming at 35 as well then dont forget it is an equivilent impact of 70mph and in which case a 125 frame prob would snap in that kind of impact.

Sorry to hear about this mate, glad your nephew's not too bad considering what happened to the bike!
Definitely worth hearing his description of events if he can remember any of it. You said he passed out.. chances are he won't be able to recall much, though in theory he should be able to remember what happened leading up to it.

I'll let Mark (Rictus) and YC give the technical advice as they know what they're talking about a lot more than myself.
Keep us posted

Sorry to hear about this... hopefully a speedy recovery.

As to bike - gotta be worth pursuing IMO.

Glad to hear your nephew is OK, hope for the best for the bike but least he is on the road to recovery! best wishes.

[Spiderman]

Speedy recovery to your nephew and thank god you do what you do to know how to keep calm in what must have been a very stressfull situation.

wow, thats a scary one - glad he's ok though.

The first thing Derbi would say is "has the bike been serviced" as that would activate the recall, they may not have written to all registered owners.

secondly, i wouldn't have thought you may have thought about it at the time considering, but if you had pictures from the scene that would help as well.

It's very unlikely they will offer something immediately so be prepared for a long legal situation but you should be covered if he was fully comp for this. and you had taken "all reasonable steps" in the care and maintenance of the bike.

Thanks for all the good wishes from evryone
He's just been sent hom from hospital which is a good thing.
He definately didn't hit the car. As Joshmac said cant recall coming off.
The forks look perfectly straight.
The only thing that he hit was a very small mound of soft earth which I thing thrown him from the bike.
I got my words muddled up last night as rictus pointed out. the headstock has broken clean off.
As for the recall we only found out about it after the accident last night.
He's only had the bike about 3 weeks and the chap who he bought it off didn't mention wether it has gone back or not
Found this on the european consumer affairs webite

"The products pose a risk of injuries because in some cases fatigue cracks have been detected in one of the tubes of the chassis. These cracks become bigger the more the bike is used, and this could result in a complete break leading to an accident."

Not my nephews bike but the frame damage is identical although the plastics and levers etc all are ok!




My other nephew has got the photos of the scene. The bike's in my lockup at the moment so am gonna pop down and check it out later