Please, Please HELP!
As a member of Think Bike, and specifically of Support Services,
I beg your assistance with a request for help relating to the accident below, please!
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“Dear Mr Swart,
I am writing to you in the hope that I will be able to access your members. My husband was involved in a very serious motorbike accident recently and the South African Police Service attended the scene but have now lost all the witness statements and are currently denying that they were ever at the scene.
The details of the accident are as follows:
7th April 2009 (Tuesday before Easter)
5.30pm – 6pm
Corner of Christiaan De Wet and Blueberry (opposite Eagle Canyon just after Bayers Naude),
Honeydew
My husband was travelling in the middle lane when a Blue Mazda car cut in front of him from the left hand side without indicating. My husband swerved to miss going over the car and his bike slid and he ended up under a White Hyundai Tucson. He was riding a Silver Honda CBR with a blue and black helmet and was dressed in a black and white rugby top with fawn shorts . The Mazda did not stop at the scene and drove off.
My husband underwent 4 hours of emergency surgery, his ankle was shattered and he has lost all flexibility in his ankle and will never walk properly again. His thigh was cut to the bone by the bike fearing and he has lost 40% of the muscle and tendon in his leg and is recovering from the first of several skin grafts. We expect that he will have to undergo physio for at least a year before being able to walk properly or ride again. The medicals bills are currently in the region of R100k.
He remembers Think Bike members being at the scene and stopping to help. The reason for my email is that I went to the scene and remember several witnesses giving the police statements. I did not get the witness details as I stupidly put my faith in the SAPS. Now that these statements have been lost we really need witnesses to come forward as we are being sued for R100k by the driver of the SUV’s insurance company and without witness statements we have no collaboration of his version of the accident.
I am also writing to the local papers to appeal for witnesses. I know I am asking a lot but is there anyway you might be able to distribute this email to your members in Johannesburg in the hope that maybe someone remembers the accident and can give us valuable input.
If so could they please email me at angela@netmigration.co.za or steveraine@hotmail.com. They will not have to give statements to the police but our lawyer needs them to be able to defend the case currently against us.
Your assistance in this matter would be so greatly appreciated and thank you for your time and for reading this email.
Kind regards,
Angela Raine “
