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Lime Bike incident by Charlton Station/ Troughton Rd Tuesday Mar 4 - witness appeal

chilhamchilham
in General Charlton
Last Tuesday evening I left the match at the final whistle to walk to my car. As I reached the bus stop outside the rail station in Church Road, I noticed a LOT (dozen or so) of Lime bikes parked by the railing behind the bus stop, by the sloping footway into Troughton Road (alongside the station). As I walked down the footway, I was struck on the left leg by a bike that had toppled over. As it hit me, a guy getting into his dark saloon car parked by the station yelled "Are you OK?", to which I replied "I think so" and continued to limp down Troughton Road.  When I arrived home, checked my leg, which had been covered by trainer-trousers, which was badly grazed and bruised. I have sent a claim to Lime Bikes, wondered if, by chance, the guy with the parked car was a 'Lifer' or may have mentioned the incident to anyone?
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  • carly burncarly burn
    Hope you cc'd cityoflondon?

    I know for a fact they're out to get them.
  • O-Randy-HuntO-Randy-Hunt
    Wish you the best of luck but these company's rarely take much responsibility.
  • kafkakafka
    Good luck with your claim. These bikes thrown everywhere are polluting our towns and are hazardous. It's not dissimilar to fly tipping. They should be made to take a chunky deposit or card guarantee so that unless they are returned to a proper parking point, the deposit is lost? Maybe they do this already but it clearly isn't working. Fine the companies involved until they manage this properly.
  • guinnessaddickguinnessaddick
    edited March 10
    Have you checked with the station, as there’s probably cctv covering the area around the station?
  • MrLargoMrLargo
    kafka said:
    Good luck with your claim. These bikes thrown everywhere are polluting our towns and are hazardous. It's not dissimilar to fly tipping. They should be made to take a chunky deposit or card guarantee so that unless they are returned to a proper parking point, the deposit is lost? Maybe they do this already but it clearly isn't working. Fine the companies involved until they manage this properly.
    2 of them slung on the floor at the end of my road yesterday, in true fly-tipping style. I don't think Lime bikes have proper parking points. You just leave it where you finish your trip. If you're a normal person than you leave it stood up tidily next to a wall, if you're a braindead imbecile then you chuck it on the floor for the rest of society to walk around/trip over. Obviously the company has to take a decent proportion of the responsibility and should improve their policies in relation to wear the bikes are left, but really it wouldn't be a problem if people behaved in a more civilised manner. It's weird - why do so many people think "I've finished with this bike now, what's the most inconsiderate thing I can do with it?"
  • HartleypeteHartleypete
    Pick a few up put them in your car to hold them to ransom.
  • BrentfordAddickBrentfordAddick
    How did the bike fall, did someone push it as you were walking down there? 
  • BDLBDL
    You might want to read this:

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  • O-Randy-HuntO-Randy-Hunt
    Hartleypete said:
    Pick a few up put them in your car to hold them to ransom.
    That's been done by a few people I know without much success. They couldn't care less if they were thrown into rivers, they just deliver more a week later.
  • ChunesChunes
    BDL said:
    You might want to read this:

    I usually ride a Lime to home games and that has given me pause for thought. 
  • chilhamchilham
    BrentfordAddick said:
    How did the bike fall, did someone push it as you were walking down there? 
    I don't know, several fell like a 'domino effect' - there were lots of people hurrying down the road, so could have been a touch.
  • North Lower NeilNorth Lower Neil
    edited March 11
    chilham said:
    BrentfordAddick said:
    How did the bike fall, did someone push it as you were walking down there? 
    I don't know, several fell like a 'domino effect' - there were lots of people hurrying down the road, so could have been a touch.
    The (potentially pretty reasonable) argument will be that Lime can't be held responsible for someone else walking past and knocking one of their bikes into you. 
  • JaShea99JaShea99
    What’s a trainer trouser?
  • Charlton and onCharlton and on
    JaShea99 said:
    What’s a trainer trouser?
    I couldn't really concentrate on the rest of the post because I was trying to work this out.
  • CallumcafcCallumcafc
    Gribbo said:
    Sounds like a right pickle
    No it’s a Lime
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  • orpingtonREDorpingtonRED
    Gribbo said:
    Sounds like a right pickle
    There's some propa sherberts about

  • orpingtonREDorpingtonRED
    Bollox it's lime chocolates not sherbet...almost a classic 
  • chilhamchilham
    JaShea99 said:
    What’s a trainer trouser?
    Track-suit trousers.
  • BaldybonceBaldybonce
    This is right now in Charlton. No one can get past with a buggy
  • Leroy AmbroseLeroy Ambrose
    Baldybonce said:
    This is right now in Charlton. No one can get past with a buggy
    There will be dozens of roads in the same area where people park their cars on the pavement and buggies can't get past. Difference is, you can move one of these. 
  • Covered EndCovered End
    edited March 11
    I never have and don't think I ever will see someone parking their car on the pavement on the Woolwich Road blocking the pavement like that.
    The discarded bikes are a menace and an eyesore and should be withdrawn until the owners can come up with a suitable way for them to be stored.
  • GribboGribbo
    ...... called the Lime Bike Caterpillar 
  • Hal1xHal1x
    edited March 11
    someone should go round on a low loader, scoop up all these littering bikes and hold Lime to ransom.
  • kafkakafka
    Leroy Ambrose said:
    Baldybonce said:
    This is right now in Charlton. No one can get past with a buggy
    There will be dozens of roads in the same area where people park their cars on the pavement and buggies can't get past. Difference is, you can move one of these. 
    Two wrongs don't make a right. Car road parking is enforced - especially around Charlton! Lime are responsible ultimately for this and should be punished, just like fly tippers.
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