White Dalton Motorcycle Solicitors have been writing for various motorcycle magazines for a number of years, bringing our specialism in everything to do with the law and motorbikes to the public.
We are putting together a database of articles that may assist you and will hopefully be of interest. The current database of articles can be found on our blog or by clicking on the magazine covers below.
All articles are reproduced here with kind permission from the respective magazine.
Fiddling the books
26 Jul 2018
I got knocked off my Kawasaki Versys 650 about four years ago. Liability was admitted straight away.
Out of time
19 Jul 2018
In 2008 I was riding my Fazer 600 when a car turned right across my path. The smack up was really bad and put me in a coma for four months.
Asphalt like marbles
12 Jul 2018
Last summer I was on my BMW 1200 heading on my usual route to work. I was meandering around a roundabout on the ring road when the front end of the motorbike just washed out on gravel etc. from the broken up road surface.
Can I sue a pedestrian who causes an accident?
05 Jul 2018
I had literally just picked up my new Kawasaki Z1000SX. We were on our maiden voyage.
Reversing blind
28 Jun 2018
I pulled up at my local motorbike dealer into the proper parking spaces and was just about to get off my Ducati 916.
Make sure you’re covered
21 Jun 2018
We would like annual holiday / travel insurance specifically for motorcyclists, or a policy that is happy to cover bikers as part of a more general travel insurance scheme, as several short trips a year, always to Europe and always touring on normal roads.
At your service…
14 Jun 2018
Mistakes happen, but where do you stand when someone cocks-up while working on your motorbike?
When ‘advanced riding’ isn’t
07 Jun 2018
The skills advanced riding gives you are definitely worth having. At their most basic, you position yourself to look through bends, react to what is in front of you, and ride within your braking distances. However, does it make any positive difference in the cold and hard analysis of Judges, if things go pear shaped?
Wife Swap
01 Jun 2018
If you find yourself contemplating passing your speeding claim on to your missus, don’t!
The trouble with kids and horses…
24 May 2018
In English law there are classes of road user defined by The Highway Code as vulnerable. We are one of them along with cyclists, pedestrians, horse riders and children. The concept extends to the elderly, the disabled and learner drivers.
Repatriating bike from France
10 May 2018
I was involved in a collision in France that resulted in me being carted off to the local hospital.
Game Over
03 May 2018
Where do you stand when an accident provokes your family into banning you from bikes?
Insurance and the aftermarket
26 Apr 2018
If you are, or soon will be, buying a new bike the odds are that sometime during the process the sales person will come to you with an accessories catalogue and your bank account will cringe.
Tax Dodge
19 Apr 2018
My solicitor has told me to accept an offer to settle my claim after I got spanked off my ZX-12R, broke my ankle and was off work for six months.
False Economy
12 Apr 2018
I got knocked off my Multistrada by a taxi driver about 18 months ago. The taxi driver’s insurer admitted liability and offered to deal with me directly about my claim.
Without reasonable consideration
05 Apr 2018
I have received a Notice of Prosecution for “driving without reasonable consideration” and it requests I identify the rider.
Wheel of terror
29 Mar 2018
I took my Bandit 1200 to have a new tyre fitted. I rode it for about 2500 miles through the summer.
