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jamcg wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2023 5:33 pm Sandford Police

Another excellent headline The train didn't hit him but I bet the driver wants to. The fecker should consider himself lucky, when I wanted to jump in front of a train none turned up, bus replacement.

Not sure how the people in the comments can side with the car driver on this one

She was zooming along for a 71 year old! Was expecting something much slower!

^ Aye, from the headline I was expecting the car to drive into her and punt her off.

Fuck that silver taxi (or whatever it was) driving round and fucking off


I'm not on t'X, can you give me a taste of some of the comments please.

Was surprised to read he got 12 months in jail.

nuttinnew wrote: Sat Dec 30, 2023 12:12 am ^ Aye, from the headline I was expecting the car to drive into her and punt her off.

Fuck that silver taxi (or whatever it was) driving round and fucking off


I'm not on t'X, can you give me a taste of some of the comments please.

Came here to post that one, the comments are a joke! How can people honestly say the cyclist was at fault?!? She was even wearing hi viz!

On the other hand, jail time for that does seem heavy handed.

Gavster wrote: Sat Dec 30, 2023 4:27 pm Came here to post that one, the comments are a joke! How can people honestly say the cyclist was at fault?!? She was even wearing hi viz!

On the other hand, jail time for that does seem heavy handed.

Maybe he used your neighbour’s legal team?

There must of been other aggravating factors to elevate beyond just a ban for driving, such as previous convictions (especially that are related) or breaking terms of bail or court order.

jamcg wrote: Sat Dec 30, 2023 8:37 am IMG_0466.png

They've got to be trolling.
Some pics in the comments here https://road.cc/content/news/shocking-v ... e-comments of similar incident that fortunately didn't end in collision.
I feel a degree of sympathy for the chap; in a world where seeing arrogant cockwombles drive dodgely and getting away with it is a daily occurrence, it could be the only driving error he's made and he hurts someone, doesn't get away with it or even just have a minor bump with another vehicle.

From road.cc comments;


"Rendel Harris replied to pdw | 5 hours ago
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pdw wrote:
This sentence seems bizarrely harsh, given what normally gets handed out for mowing down cyclists with far more aggravating factors.

Perhaps it just seems bizarrely harsh because the sentences normally handed out are bizarrely lenient. I do agree there may have been more to it than meets the eye though, the guilty plea seems to imply it. It would be interesting to see the judge's sentencing remarks, which don't seem available anywhere."

Someone takes responsibility for their actions and is viewed suspiciously for it

Clearly stupid riding, but also that is why gloves are so important. His right palm acted as a road brake, it will be shredded, he’s gonna have trouble using his hands for weeks.

Looks like India, and Indian roads are famously safe for motorbike riders

No self preservation and stunt riding would make it his fault in the eyes of insurance over here. And the police would probably prosecute for dangerous driving. Truck might get without due care and attention too

This is assuming the wagon catches due to slowing bike rather than speeding up truck. If that’s the case truck driver wants doing for trying to kill him

These people are going to hurt themselves, I drive a car more defensively than this!

The problem there is the rain. If it was dry and sunny then the cyclist wouldn't have been so angry at riding in shit conditions

The scary thing is the absolutely entitled bellends have motor assist so drive up to avoidable incidents of their own making far sooner.

Dave!

That particular video shows the problem cyclists suffer. The truck just crosses a give way line and nobody seems to care. If he'd been coming to a crossroads where he didn't have priority and a car had had to stop for him, nobody would explain it away as 'committed to the manouevre' or whatever.

Drive round Amsterdam where all the roads are laid out with cycle lanes alongside like that and within 5 minutes you'd be well aware that you do not have priority when crossing the cycle lane. Exactly as here.

The cyclist stopped anyway, so there's no fault to apportion because there was no coming together. But the lorry should have given way.

I largely agree Simon. The lorry is technically in the wrong, although most of us would probably have just pulled up and given him space to finish the manouvre.

Hilarious that the top comment is "have you driven an articulated lorry greg?" as if all cyclists should now get an HGV licence before they're allowed to criticise lorry drivers. How many lorry drivers cycle around central London during rush hour I wonder?

If someone got hurt I'm sure the driver would be apportioned some blame but he's indicated and started turning at a green light at least 50m in front of the cyclist. To plough on at 4x or more the speed of a turning vehicle is confrontational at best, it seems reckless to me. We're all using the same bit of road and it would have been far safer and easier to just reduce his speed to avoid being in the same space!

Being right doesn't make you an accomplished road user. I find it scary how many of these videos are appearing with cyclists condemning other road users under the pretence of being right or new rules lol