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You were 100% liable for hitting a cyclist and you cheerfully admit to paying them off with a pittance of the damage you caused and forcing them to sign away their rights? That's pretty fucking shitty.
At least your last paragraph makes it sound like you learnt from the behaviour that led to your mistake in the first place.
In America that waiver might have been unenforceable... Or one would hope.
Nope. It was enforceable. Consulted a lawyer. Standard for cash settlements actually. Any time you settle a claim outside of insurance you should have one. Otherwise they could file a claim immediately after getting the cash.
Same shit corps do with "out of court" settlements when someone sues and has a good case to win.
Idk why my reply didn't save but:
I did everything by the book. Gave her my info and insurance. I opened a claim and had them take a statement from her.
I offered her a $200 settlement to replace/repair her bike and she accepted. I surprised her with a waiver of liability and gave her the choice of $200 now or continue with the claim.
I think I handled it very responsibly as my first incident in my early 20s.
Do I feel guilty for hurting someone? Yes absolutely. At the same time I'm allowed to be glad to avoid insurance bs.
I immediately became a safer driver and I hope she was also more careful about going full speed on the sidewalk in the wrong direction of traffic.
Oh and BTW we even had bicycle lanes on the street. In my state you're treated as a car if you're riding the bike. She wasn't following the rules of the road and probably would have gotten nothing through insurance. Everyone told me not to pay her off.
Literally victim blaming. It's completely normal to travel in either direction on the footpath.
Paint is not infrastructure.
I'm done with this thread. Real nice skipping the part about me learning from the experience.
You've already made your stance clear and this is an event from literally 16 years ago.
~~I've been in exactly 2 at fault accidents in those 16 years. This includes driving for 10 hours a day for years working on the road.~~
Yeah I'm done.
Your defensiveness doesn’t make it feel like you learnt from it. You might have learnt how to avoid that kind of crash (crash, not accident) in the future, which is fantastic, but you haven’t internalised that it was because of your own inattentiveness in operating a dangerous vehicle that the crash occurred, and not because of the perfectly acceptable behaviour from a member of a vulnerable group. A vulnerable group that you victimised.