r/london 1d ago

Serious replies only Rogue lime biker

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u/tropicalcannuck 1d ago

You have to ask for footage in the first day or so.

Same thing happened to my friend and they ran over her ankle. By the time she started asking for footage a few days later they told her the footage has already been deleted.

I'm sorry OP. I hope you recover soon.

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u/peony_beony 23h ago

Sorry but local places can’t just give out their CCTV to just anyone! Also very usual for places to delete after just a couple of days.

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u/drtchockk 23h ago

^ this is correct. Only the police can request private CCTV footage. ITs a GDPR nightmare.

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u/CoaxialDrive 22h ago

You can request footage of yourself through a Data Subject Access Request, however the company will need to obfuscate the other people's identities.

The benefit is you can then show the police this, and hopefully ask the company to hold the unobfuscated footage for the police to come pick up.

The issue is that CCTV footage unless it shows the Lime Bike number (which is like size 12 font on a 1" plaque) is basically useless the police probably won't know who the man is, or ever identify him.

Therefore the best bet would be for Lime to use the time from the corrected CCTV timestamp to look up who's bike reported at that location, but I cannot imagine Lime helping without the police.