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Police appeal after cyclist attacked by car passenger near Stoke Staffordshire Police

Police appeal after cyclist attacked by car passenger near Stoke

Good Samaritan who stopped to help sought by officers
by John Stevenson
Fri, Jan 09, 2015 12:15
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After a cyclist was attacked by a car passenger near Stoke-on-Trent on January 2, Staffordshire Police are appealing for witnesses and would especially like to speak to a good Samaritan cyclist who stopped to help.

The 32-year old rider from Newcastle-under-Lyme was heading West on Whitmore Road at about 12:15pm when the driver of a black Vauxhall Corsa pulled up alongside him.

According to the Stoke Sentinel's Dave Knapper, police say a passenger in the car grabbed the rider's rucksack, resulting in him falling off his bike.

A passing rider stopped to help the man who sustained cuts and bruises but did not need hospital treatment. His helmet was split in two by the fall.

Staffordshire Police is appealing for witnesses, including the good Samaritan, to come forward.

Anyone with information should call 101 quoting incident 478 of January 2.

Staffordshire Police
Stoke-on-Trent
Newcastle-under-Lyme
John Stevenson

John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.

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.

John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.

He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.

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J90 | 9 years ago
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Stoke, nuff said.

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peterben | 9 years ago
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Jeremy Clarkson? Where did that come from?

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banzicyclist2 | 9 years ago
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Very disappointing.... are we a civilised country makes you wonder. 2

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Metaphor | 9 years ago
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When will the police recognise that certain media outlets are responsible for creating an environment in which someone on a small metal frame is acceptable prey?

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ianrobo replied to Metaphor | 9 years ago
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Ramuz wrote:

When will the police recognise that certain media outlets are responsible for creating an environment in which someone on a small metal frame is acceptable prey?

When the BBC employs the racist and bigoted Clarkson to front Top Gear that says it all

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828321 | 9 years ago
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If the victim was using strava at the time, he may be able to trace the other rider using strava flyby (if both were using gps that is (if strava not used by victim but other rider was, he may add import his data there to check).

http://labs.strava.com/flyby/

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Ric_Stern_RST | 9 years ago
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Not really surprising. It's the worse place i've ever ridden bike in the UK 2

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sean evans | 9 years ago
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What is wrong with people, why does being inside a metal box give people such a heightened sense of power, denial and give them the idea to attempt to seriously harm or kill someone? We forget that the road user outside of our precious metal box is a real person who you are unlikely to attack while passing in the street if they hold you up for a second or two, it's bonkers.

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ianrobo replied to sean evans | 9 years ago
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sean evans wrote:

What is wrong with people, why does being inside a metal box give people such a heightened sense of power, denial and give them the idea to attempt to seriously harm or kill someone? We forget that the road user outside of our precious metal box is a real person who you are unlikely to attack while passing in the street if they hold you up for a second or two, it's bonkers.

I doubt this was anti-cyclist but opportunist thieves who may have thought a laptop, phone etc was in the bag ?

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Joselito replied to ianrobo | 9 years ago
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I doubt this was anti-cyclist but opportunist thieves who may have thought a laptop, phone etc was in the bag ?

Was the thief Roger Moore?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiDvpeWk0P8

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Ramz replied to sean evans | 9 years ago
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sean evans wrote:

What is wrong with people, why does being inside a metal box give people such a heightened sense of power, denial and give them the idea to attempt to seriously harm or kill someone? We forget that the road user outside of our precious metal box is a real person who you are unlikely to attack while passing in the street if they hold you up for a second or two, it's bonkers.

Dave Allen explains: http://youtu.be/mNycWQSeOnE

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