Andrew Dalton’s legal Q&A

Andrew Dalton, ex-dispatch rider, now a solicitor-advocate and barrister with 20 years’ experience with bikers, gives the inside track on what the biker needs to know to stay on the right side of the law.

Is 50/50 fair for filtering failure? Q I WAS HIT by a car that made a U-turn as I was attempting to pass it in a slow-moving queue of traffic. So far, so easy – but I’m being told that I am equally to blame for this crash. Here is what happened: I’d overtaken, in stages, a longish queue of slow-moving traffic stacked up behind a skip truck. As I got towards the front a Fiat 500 tucked in hard to the left. I thought the driver was letting me through, then BAM! The Fiat moved violently to the right, just flicking its indicator on and I was smacked hard by the door. My bike went sprawling across the carriageway, and as my bike fell on my leg it rotated my leg…

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RiDE United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2017

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