Car driver ambushes cyclist
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9511607/V...
Car driver convicted of assault.
Car driver convicted of assault.
Edited by Newton472 on Monday 26th April 09:26
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rover 623gsi said:
Can’t see anything in that report about either the cyclist’s or the driver’s house price. Poor show from the DM.
Oh but they did...At Tameside magistrates' court in Greater Manchester Eckersley, who lives in a £550,000 rural property in the village of Mobberley, was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was ordered to pay the victim £900 compensation plus £865 in costs.
Evanivitch said:
rover 623gsi said:
Can’t see anything in that report about either the cyclist’s or the driver’s house price. Poor show from the DM.
Oh but they did...At Tameside magistrates' court in Greater Manchester Eckersley, who lives in a £550,000 rural property in the village of Mobberley, was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was ordered to pay the victim £900 compensation plus £865 in costs.
Good to know they’ve not let their editorial standards slip
towser44 said:
I tend to find those who hate cyclists are those who are jealous, because they are too unfit, lazy etc to cycle 2 yards themselves or they can't afford the kit or both :-)
Interesting POV. I am a cyclist reasonably fit but draw the line at the leotard. However cyclist can be utter bell ends at times and it boils my piss as a driver that cyclist don’t pull over into a driveway or lay-by or similar when they have a queue or cars behind them. I try to do that everytime I am in that situation on a bike and everytime I get a wave of thanks.
What I like about this article is the cyclist compo culture kicking in, with his PI lawyer maximising his injuries combined with having to stop work equals big pay out. I bet he was on furlough anyway but now gets a cash injection. Milking it I’d say and he’s almost as guilty of being a nobber as the driver
RizzoTheRat said:
Don't think either of them covered themselves in glory there. Why is that news article so obsessed with him checking his cycle computer though?
Because momentary distraction is the only possible explanation as to how a fat office wallah managed to best a physically fit cyclist in a physical encounter. And even then Mr Angry Pants had to hide behind a hedge. And reading the description in the text, it all stems from an SUV driver failing to give way to established road traffic when joining the carriageway from adjoining private property. Are drivers exempt from some parts of the Highway Code, hmmm? 
RizzoTheRat said:
Don't think either of them covered themselves in glory there. Why is that news article so obsessed with him checking his cycle computer though?
Agree. They both seem to have anger management issues, and look where it ended up. One with a broken shoulder and one with an assault conviction.The car driver likely ‘wronged’ the cyclist by leaving him a gap that was too small during the roadworks, or pulled out in front of him, but the cyclist that is clearly the type that will make a massive issue out of it by not slowing down, screaming “f
k off and die”, and physically lashing out at the car like he did. Combine an angry screaming cyclist with a car driver who clearly has a very short fuse, and this is what happens.
If I was the cyclist, I would have simply tutted to myself, avoided the car, and said nothing. Because you never know if the other person is a psycho.
If I was the driver, I would simply have held up my hand and mouthed ‘sorry’, and then just driven away quietly even if being verbally abused. Because you never know if the other person is a psycho.
But no, the pair of them had to ‘go at it’.
Lord Marylebone said:
RizzoTheRat said:
Don't think either of them covered themselves in glory there. Why is that news article so obsessed with him checking his cycle computer though?
Agree. They both seem to have anger management issues, and look where it ended up. One with a broken shoulder and one with an assault conviction.The car driver likely ‘wronged’ the cyclist by leaving him a gap that was too small during the roadworks, or pulled out in front of him, but the cyclist that is clearly the type that will make a massive issue out of it by not slowing down, screaming “f
k off and die”, and physically lashing out at the car like he did. Combine an angry screaming cyclist with a car driver who clearly has a very short fuse, and this is what happens.
If I was the cyclist, I would have simply tutted to myself, avoided the car, and said nothing. Because you never know if the other person is a psycho.
If I was the driver, I would simply have held up my hand and mouthed ‘sorry’, and then just driven away quietly even if being verbally abused. Because you never know if the other person is a psycho.
But no, the pair of them had to ‘go at it’.
I exited and stopped, adrenaline flooding, scared and furious, the car meanwhile had used the same exit, pulled into a bus stop and the driver was running back towards me.
Bike went west and was well up for it when I realised he was apologising profusely and he had wife and kids in the car.
Still took an effort to calm down and laugh it off.
It's a lot more frightening when you have no steel walls around you.
On the plus side I saw him in the pub a few months later and he bought me a pint, genuinely nice bloke.
bigandclever said:
I assumed this was going to be about the Gandalf Corner concerned cyclist / copper’s nark / delete as appropriate.
I love the Gandalf Corner videos. So much crazy behaviour in such simple videos. Amazing how seemingly ordinary people on their way to work, taking a 15 metre shortcut, can end up with a day in court charged with traffic offences and assault.
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