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Thank you for all your answers. Sorry I didn't get back sooner. We are pretty sure that the motorcyclist was going about 100 m.p.h. because my son saw him, and another motorcyclist, in his rear view mirror apparently having a race. They were on the wrong side of the road for much of their approach, and although my son was indicating right, it would seem that the motorcyclist didn't realise until he was nearly on top of him. The speedometer on the bike was smashed and the needle was stuck on 95, so assuming he started to brake when he realised my son was stationary, he was probably doing 100 or more on his approach. He was thrown onto the grass verge, and as far as we know suffered some broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a broken ankle. The police were astonished that he wasn't more seriously hurt, or even killed.
While I sympathise with him up to a point, as he was hurt, I still feel that it was his own stupid fault and that he was driving recklessly. I am very grateful indeed that my son and his girlfriend were virtually unscathed, but it could so easily have not been the case. Should this bloke be allowed to get away with driving like that? He says he can't remember anything about the accident, but all that says to me is that you can drive like a steaming idiot, write a couple of vehicles off, injure a couple of people not too seriously, and if you pretend you can't remember anything about it, you get off scott free. If you or I were caught doing 38 in a 30 m.p.h. zone, without causing any accident, we would probably be prosecuted. It makes me very angry.
BJ