Cycling accidents - Any prosecutions?

[James Mulholland]

After our Hit and Run incident as per attached link. https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/133190-hit-and-run-in-bloemfontein/?hl=hit+and+run.

 

The slimy drunken disgusting coward bacteria that hit us his away like a cockroach.

 

Cops found him and he was arrested and appeared in court.

 

After getting bail nothing happened. After I threatened to go to the highest authority, eventually statements were taken.

 

Since then, as expected, the dossier disappeared.

 

The accused in the case asked for a specific SAPD member when he was arrested.

 

It has since become apparent that there is another case against the accused. He hit a pedestrian with his Benz, killing her instantly. Same story, he hid the car away. Car was found and he was arrested. Lo and behold that dossier is also missing.

 

I managed to get a fellow Mountain Biker who is a Cop to go and search for the dossier in our case. After a month and a half , he eventually found it and gave us copies.

 

To cut a long story short, there has been absolutely no effort from the State to bring this matter to an end.

 

We are now pursuing a civil claim against the driver. He has defended the matter. Claims that we were riding in the dark without lights and that he didn't see us. Silly poephol doesn't know that I took photographs straight after the accident and it can be seen how dark it was. Photos in link above.

 

Moral of the story, I have no hope of this drunk driver ever facing the law. Maybe we can hurt him with the civil claim, time will tell

 

 

Sorry to hear about your story. It seems nothing ever happens to the driver. A friend of mine who was a local musician was killed by a drunk driver who was driving on the wrong side of the street. She claimed he was dancing in the road and just jumped in front of her and that even though she was driving back from a party the only reason she was over the limit was because passers by gave her wine to calm her down. The judge also claimed that she didn't look drunk in the photo of her taken at the scene. So handy to know that he can tell blood alcohol levels from a photo.

[Vetseun]

Sorry to hear about your story. It seems nothing ever happens to the driver. A friend of mine who was a local musician was killed by a drunk driver who was driving on the wrong side of the street. She claimed he was dancing in the road and just jumped in front of her and that even though she was driving back from a party the only reason she was over the limit was because passers by gave her wine to calm her down. The judge also claimed that she didn't look drunk in the photo of her taken at the scene. So handy to know that he can tell blood alcohol levels from a photo.

Ja, our guy also claimed that he drank after the accident.