Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Undue care and attention for me?

[Ains.]

Here's the scenario.
It's dark and dry (18:50hrs) and I'm on my way home from the Staffs bike show having displayed the SP4S there.
I pull up at a set of lights that are RED, next to a black Clio I'm on the outside of the car in the outside lane.

Lights turn green and I accelerate (not fast) away from the lights. Next thing i know I'm flying. Enough adrenalin to make a phone call to Linda; Help I'm in trouble T-boned outside ASDA, then collapse into the middle of the road where the Police find me; then the next thing I remember is it's 22:30 and I'm in hospital.

Apparently a car turned right in front of me and I collected it just behind the front wheel of the car.

I have vague recollections of the RTC, no more than that.

The witness in the black Clio has said it was my fault because I should have waited for the other car turning right to complete the turn and I accelerated from the lights too fast. The bruises on my left foot tell me I was changing up, so short shifting; therefore not blasting away from the light as she says.

Interviewed by the Police but have no witness statements and since I have only partial memory and at the time no idea where I was in relation to any traffic my statement is not the best.

I get a letter saying Driver Improvement for you! OK says I, but in signing the forms I do not admit liability as I am not sure of my legal position.
I then go back to the lights, in the car and shoot vid' sequences of the tights and their timing. From the other cars side, she loses priority (right filter) after 3 seconds then 5 seconds later my lights turn green. She lost priority and still came through.
I have sent the solicitor, my insurance and the Police these vid' sequences and asked for the undue care and attention to be dropped.

Today I get through the post the following (eMail from Linda)
"Got a letter from the police this morning-you are not going to like it-they have decided there is sufficient evidence to sustain a prosecution against you for driving without due care and attention. They have arranged for a summons to be issued after your return from overseas."

I have already had one U2U from a serving Police Traffic officer saying fight it, and a second legal opinion from White & Dalton saying the same as I had a green light before I moved. Witness statements say, 'he waited for green'

Incidentally the original traffic officer (bike rider) retired and it got left to another traffic officer (non bike rider) to sort out.

So, boys and girls what to do? It would seem obvious wouldn't it. Fight it, but realistically what are the chances against a magistrate who will almost certainly not be a bike rider and a witness statement that says it's all my fault.

Thanks.

Ains.