The person was riding on the sidewalk? In many jurisdictions, this is unlawful activity especially if the person is 18 y/o. If he was injured due to him illegally and operating a bicycle on the sidewalk and especially in an unsafe manner (darting out in front of a car), I can't see how you can be at fault.
Make sure thats the case. It's perfectly legal to ride on sidewalks in Seattle for some odd reason.
11.46.010 Areas of operation.
A. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, gas motorized foot scooters may be operated on roadways, shoulders, and alleys, but not on sidewalks, bicycle lanes, or public paths.
The problem is collision with pedestrians tends to be at the fault of the driver of a car since a few thousand pounds of metal can be a deadly weapon and even if the person was doing something illegal like that you are still going to be under most of the blame because of that.
So then what's this:
11.46.010 Areas of operation.
A. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, gas motorized foot scooters may be operated on roadways, shoulders, and alleys, but not on sidewalks, bicycle lanes, or public paths.
http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scri...=HITOFF&l=20&p=1&u=/~public/cbor2.htm&r=1&f=G
Tip: go to the store and get a tube of KY jelly. You're going to need it if he lawyer's up. Offering the $8 will be seen as an admission of fault.
Sounds like to me the guy is looking to milk some money out of this. I will probably be called a reacist for asking this, but was it a black guy? Sounds like it.
Sounds like to me the guy is looking to milk this for some money. I will probably be called a racist for asking this, but was it a black guy? Sounds like it.
So I hit a biker today. Here's the story.
I was coming out of an alleyway so I had no vision of the sidewalk, and as I was creeping out at maybe 2 miles an hour, an 18 year old kid, seeing the nose of my car, decides to make a break for it without me knowing he's even there. I bump his left side with the front of my car at about 2 miles an hour, of course, he falls over, gets up IMMEDIATELY, walks over to the side and says nothing, I ask him are you ok? and he seemed fine, seeing as how he jumped p immediately, and he doesn't say a word. I pull out 8 bucks in cash, and since I saw in a hurry, I say "Hey, if you're not hurt and your bike looks perfectly fine, you can just take this money" NOW, he decides to speak up and say "8 dollars ain' enough bro". So I say ok... lets go somewhere and talk about this cuz theres a bunch of cars backed up behind me. again, no answer, i go into my car to pull over somewhere, he approaches me with a quickened pace and says "bra, you better not be goin nowhere, or the bloods and crips gonna get yo ass" to which i reply, im gonna park in the next street. So, the ambulance came to check out his "scraped leg" and he starts limping out of nowhere. I tell the police what happened, they file a police report, and we exchanged information, and that was it. Now, I'm all paranoid because this kid that may or may not have a gang affiliation has all my information: where i live and all that. but i have his. since he was biking on the sidewalk, does he have a case? what can he do? frickin idiot decides to outrun a car and then fakes being injured... aauggghh.. what a shitty incident
I bet he stole that bike.
Naga stole my bike!
gotta play Warcraft to understand it
2mph is not creeping out. You go forward and stop and inch forward until you can see. WTF is wrong with you.
Should have just yelled at him like an old grump and drove off.
i seriously thought about that, do people do that and get away with it?
uh, 2mph IS creeping out.
That's a 30 minute mile. That's basically what someone walks at a typical stride, IF it's even that fast.
"Hey man, you OK? I got about 3 bucks in loose change, some Juicy Fruit and a chapstick that I only used twice. We cool?"
The problem is collision with pedestrians tends to be at the fault of the driver of a car since a few thousand pounds of metal can be a deadly weapon and even if the person was doing something illegal like that you are still going to be under most of the blame because of that.