{"id":204966622,"date":"2011-07-01T07:10:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T07:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=204966622"},"modified":"2011-07-01T07:10:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T07:10:22","slug":"how-to-handle-bike-car-accidents-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=204966622","title":{"rendered":"How to Handle Bike-Car Accidents, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[B&#8217; Spokes: Just a excerpt, there&#8217;s more via the link at the end.]<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>I Was In A Collision\u2014What Should I Do?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Bob Mionske<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve just been hit by a car, and you\u2019re lying on the roadway. In <a href=\"https:\/\/bicycling.com\/blogs\/roadrights\/2011\/06\/02\/how-to-handle-bike-car-accidents-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Part 1<\/a> of this article, I advised you to begin documenting what happened. But what if you\u2019re injured and unable to function? Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;A good forensic engineer can reconstruct the accident.<br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Police reports and investigations are not the last word or even the best word on what happened.<br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;If you think that the police got it wrong, you can make an effort to get the accident report <a href=\"https:\/\/bicycling.com\/blogs\/roadrights\/2011\/06\/13\/set-the-record-straight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">amended<\/a>, and through your attorney, have your own forensic engineer reconstruct the accident.<br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;If you have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garmin.com\/garmin\/cms\/site\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GPS device<\/a> or GPS on your <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.trimbleoutdoors.com\/Default.aspx?TabId=259\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cell phone<\/a>, it will track your ride, and the data can be retrieved later to assist in accident reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bicycling.com\/blogs\/roadrights\/2011\/06\/30\/how-to-handle-bike-car-accidents-part-2\/\">https:\/\/bicycling.com\/blogs\/roadrights\/2011\/06\/30\/how-to-handle-bike-car-accidents-part-2\/<\/a>oldId.201107010710227<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Just a excerpt, there&#8217;s more via the link at the end.] I Was In A Collision\u2014What Should I Do? By Bob Mionske You\u2019ve just been hit by a car, and you\u2019re lying on the roadway. In Part 1 of this article, I advised you to begin documenting what happened. But what if you\u2019re &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=204966622\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Handle Bike-Car Accidents, Part 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204966622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204966622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204966622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204966622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204966622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204966622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204966622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}