WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET HIT BY A CAR…AND YOUR BIKE CAMERA DOESN’T CAPTURE THE REGISTRATION NUMBER? A lot of cyclists feel helpless after a hit and run because they are unable to identify the vehicle involved…EMILY BILLIAU // Australia’s Leading Lawyer for Cyclists Perhaps the driver fled the scene of the accident or the […]
Continue readingThe Facts (Nominal Defendant v Rooskov)On 18 May 2005, Nigel rode his mountain bike to the local bowls club. Whilst at the bowls club he drank approximately 6 to 8 schooners of beer. Between 3.30pm and 4.30pm that afternoon he left the bowls club on his bike to ride home. He was not wearing a […]
Continue readingCordin v Nominal Defendant Cordin v Nominal Defendant is a decision out of the District Court of NSW. The Court awarded the Plaintiff cyclist $350,000 in damages for the injuries he sustained after he fell from his bicycle. It was alleged by the Plaintiff cyclist that as he was applying his brakes in the […]
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