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Queensland driver hits cyclist 04.pngVideo: Australian driver hits cyclist from behind
A driver in Queensland Australia was caught on camera on Friday afternoon driving straight into the back of a cyclist at a junction in Brisbane that dashcam user Andrew Ison describes as “a bit of a mad scramble.”
In the footage posted to YouTube, the driver of a white Audi uses the left of two lanes to try and get to the head of a queue of traffic at a set of lights where a cyclist is already waiting.
When the lights change, she appears to tailgate the cyclist as he pulls away from the lights, and then hits him, knocking him off his bike.
Mr Ison stopped to give assistance and in his comments on the video says: “The bloke looks to be ok - aside from some missing skin and a few interesting bruises. The helmet broke on impact so he was taken to hospital as a precaution.”
According to Mr Ison, the rider is okay and has been given a copy of the footage. He added: “The driver stopped and assisted in every way possible and has been in amicable contact with the rider.”
According to the Courier Mail, police have interviewed the victim. No charges had been laid against the driver, but the investigation was continuing.
Queensland Ambulance Service confirmed that paramedics had attended the incident. They had treated a man in his 40s for cuts and abrasions and taken him him to Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in a stable condition. He has since been released.
Bicycle Queensland CEO Ben Wilson said the incident was “one of the worst things” he had seen in a long time.
“It just looked to me like there was a total lack of awareness on the driver’s behalf,” he said.
“This trend we’re seeing in lack of bike safety is coming from a concentration lapse from drivers when they’re sharing the road.
“A lot of it is because of the growing amount of distractions – like mobile phones – that are in cars now.”
Safe Cycling Queensland director Dave Sharp said road rage incidents against cyclists were “definitely increasing”.
“Motorists have to realise that, unfortunately, they don’t own the roads,” he said.
“If they wait just a few moments for the cyclist to get out of their way, it’s not going to kill them. But their impatience could certainly kill cyclists.”
Or as Mr Ison put it in his commentary on his video: “The moral of the story? If you're driving around bikes - who are legally allowed and fully entitled to use the road - PAY ATTENTION!
“Just calm down and give them room, don't try and chop and change lanes dangerously just to arrive home a car length ahead of where you would have been if you'd chilled a little.”
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He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.
Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.
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The Australian cycling death rate is two or three times our's. When helmets were made compulsory and the wearing rate went up from about a third to close to 100 % the rate did not change. In none of the juridictions where lids are mandated has there been any improvement.
She though all she had to do was give him a push.
I'd wager that her hazard perception was skewed by the helmet.
If only we could look into the universe where he didn't wear the helmet.
Polystyrene head = alien, hairy head = human.
BBC - Wearing helmets 'more dangerous'
I think this would go best on my horizontal, lugged steel top tube. It's an all Italian build so best to stick with Beretta, when I get a Rourke I'll have to splash out on a Purdey...
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You must have a really long top tube. You could fit a Glock in a neat little corner frame bag.
the part where she was tailing him so close was not inattention, it was deliberate.
Guns are heavy though, I spent a fortune on a 35g lighter seat post and now I've got to strap a Beretta to my top tube
A Glock features composite components and is lighter than a Beretta. It's still a 9m so it packs a punch. It's also more modern than the Beretta, which is a bit old school. So do you prefer carbon/composites or steel?
cycle armed, shoot back is the growing sentiment here across the big pond where we believe an armed society is a polite society.
or in Sydney at the weekend this collision from the rear included a couple of youth riders out with their club :
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/cyclists-injured-after-collision-with-car-2014...
at least the video has headline "cyclists run down"
ignore "motorway" - its a legal road to ride on and regularly used by cyclists
the photo of the car windscreen could feature in a "pay attention" advert but then again those that get the message probably don't need it
I wonder whether this was an awful lapse of concentration, a premeditated act, or just poorly executed intimidation. Whatever the reason, some sort of ban would help focus the minds of every driver who watches this video.
Hope the rider makes a speedy recovery.
Isn't intimidation, however poorly executed, pre-meditated?
It's where a driver comes up very close (intended) but actually makes contact (unintended) then claims some sort of distraction in order to avoid a custodial sentence. It's my opinion that many of the unexplained incidents where cyclists are hit and killed from behind may well be examples of intimidation that went too far. It's the same with punishment passes; some will result in death even though the driver just wanted to scare the cyclist, rather than actually kill them.
Shocking driving. Outrageously dangerous. Hope the driver gets at least a lengthy ban!
Just what happened to me except the fecker drove off - hit and run. The cops were no more interested than filling in forms then taking me home. I hope she gets a long ban, strung up to bake in the Aussie midday sun with a few King Brown snakes slithering around her feet. Teach her to drive so dangerously. It was clearly premeditated and she should be prosecuted for a serious assault. She could have killed the cyclist. What a stupid **!%@^. Good on the other motorist catching it on his dash cam. Shows that he was sufficiently anxious about driving in Oz to install one on his car's dashboard to record dangerous drivers.
“Motorists have to realise that, unfortunately, they don’t own the roads,”
Oh, how unfortunate.
Normal for Aus IME - one of the least bike-friendly countries I've been too. They'll run you off the road given half-a-chance.
The Austrian driving public seam to have nearly as little disregard for the lives of cyclist as they do in this country.
I really hope the driver gets her comeuppance one way or another.
Any body else noted the irony in being hit by an Audi whilst wearing a jersey with a VW symbol on the back?
wow!
she saw him, hence the going slow.
just wow!
Audi drivers are the new BMW drivers.
I'm surprised the universe didn't implode when I pulled my bike out of the boot of my Audi on Sunday.
Really? To me it seems perfectly natural that the sort of people who own an Audi are the same sort of people who buy a bicycle then drive it around in their car.
how the hell can you not see someone in front of you like that. infact that looked deliberate to me, she seems to hover on his back wheel before hitting him.
Audi drivers, sigh
have to agree with zanf, IF you can't see a cyclist in front of you there is no way you should be on the road.
The rise in "distractions" is worrying, radios, phones, menu systems, even having cup holders,
Your driving a car, your not in your front room.
Doesn't matter how nice she was after the collision: she deliberately smashed into him, whether that was from incompetence or negligence.
Action like this should be automatic loss of license.
She will probably be given a medal much as the same here.
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