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official police report and photos

Sept. 9th, 2013 the following Monday, 5 days after being hit

the same officer who I first spoke to(the one that tested my story)...handed me the final police report from the investigation of the accident...this was finished a few days after the accident and we were worried because we hadn't had the chance to submit any of the  photos and information and we had gathered on our own yet, they had only used information they gathered at the scene....but he said: "here, just look at this diagram on here...I think it shows exactly what really happened"...when I saw it, I had to fight back overwhelming emotion and tears...feeling like I was finally coming out into the light at the end of the tunnel



the insurance company has had this document and access to all police photos
 for three and a half weeks now..for some reason, the insurance company thinks
 it gets to decide what happened, independently from the police and ignoring this evidence 


photos police took of the scratches from my bike where it was first knocked over, slid in the center of the lane, then dragged by the car and run over

looking forward to where the scratches change direction as the white car drives over the top of the bike

looking back over the bike to where the white car came from
and moved the bike from where it was sliding in the center of the left-hand lane



deep scratches where the bike was first knocked to the street,
then lighter ones leading up to where the bike is lying 



photo of where the bike was dragged by the car as it tuned into the lot
the bike is blocking half the lot driveway(the exit lane) 






lower left is dent from front motorcycle tire
upper right is red mark from bike fairing
dent in front of wheel is from running over bike(breaking the headlight glass here)







view from beside police car in left lane up to where car and motorcycle stopped


the report states that in the investigation, the police officer and an accident reconstructionist  reviewed all evidence and concluded that...

 the white car:
 "unit #1 was initially in the right lane"

 the motorcycle:
 "unit #2 had been traveling mid-center within the left-hand lane"

and that:
 "unit #1 turned from the wrong lane and in front of unit #2 (IMPROPER TURN)"

also that they challenged the witness(blue truck) and concluded:
 "her report of the pre-crash positioning of both units was not possible







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