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Originally Posted by jambo
A very healthy attitude to take  Just because someone is clearly at fault and driving like a fool, doesn't mean you couldn't have done something not to be in their path when it happened. Some accidents are just going to happen. Sometimes there genuinely is almost nothing you can do, but most of the time if you look at it there was something you could have done to avoid the consequences of their actions. |
Couldn't agree more. With my one, it falls in the "nothing I could do" category. I was travelling at maybe 15mph (nice and slow filtering) and she pulled out about 10ft in front of me. Fortunately not hurt but bike was a wreck as it flipped up into the air, vertically standing on its front wheel, then dropped down onto its side, breaking just about every component, panel and sticky-out bit on the LHS. Although it was probably easily repairable, the cost of all the parts alone pushed it into the write-off zone.