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Video: Melbourne driver swerves into cyclist and rams him off the road

Incident took place last year - but motorist was fined just A$1,000 (£557)

 

Footage has emerged of the moment the driver of a 4x4 vehicle swerved into a cyclist, knocking him off his bike and onto a grass verge.

The incident, caught on the dashcam of a following car, happened last November on Inkerman Street and has been shared widely, including on the Face book page of the Australian Cycle Alliance.

After knocking the cyclist from his bicycle the driver gets out of his vehicle, gestures at the rider then picks the bike up and throws it over a hedge.

According to the description of the video on YouTube, the driver was charged with 'Reckless Driving Causing Injury' and fined $1,000 – the end result being described as “very poor” and the police as “unhelpful.”

The description concluded: “We are glad this has been finalised, but are sickened that these things happen.”

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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Yorkshire wallet | 6 years ago
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Seems an idiot culture to me. Watch a police programme on YouTube and everyone talks like a 5 year old. "Where's your rego?" , " do you need an ambo?" and so on. Even the politicians are at the articulation levels of a market stall holder. You'd get laughed at talking like that in any position of importance in the UK.

Bunch of hoons.

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nigerian prince replied to Yorkshire wallet | 6 years ago
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Yorkshire wallet wrote:

Seems an idiot culture to me. Watch a police programme on YouTube and everyone talks like a 5 year old. "Where's your rego?" , " do you need an ambo?" and so on. Even the politicians are at the articulation levels of a market stall holder. You'd get laughed at talking like that in any position of importance in the UK. Bunch of hoons.

 

 

Says the guy from the union who collectively voted to leave an alliance because of xenophobia, and are now facing down a protracted, self-inflicted economic depression. . ... 

 

 

hahahahhahahahahahahahahahaahhaaaaaa

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hawkinspeter replied to nigerian prince | 6 years ago
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nigerian prince wrote:

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

Seems an idiot culture to me. Watch a police programme on YouTube and everyone talks like a 5 year old. "Where's your rego?" , " do you need an ambo?" and so on. Even the politicians are at the articulation levels of a market stall holder. You'd get laughed at talking like that in any position of importance in the UK. Bunch of hoons.

 

 

Says the guy from the union who collectively voted to leave an alliance because of xenophobia, and are now facing down a protracted, self-inflicted economic depression. . ... 

 

 

hahahahhahahahahahahahahahaahhaaaaaa

...but it was free money for the NHS.

(Disclaimer - I voted remain and think that the public should have a second vote now that some facts are available).

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Roulereo replied to Yorkshire wallet | 6 years ago
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Yorkshire wallet wrote:

Seems an idiot culture to me. Watch a police programme on YouTube and everyone talks like a 5 year old. "Where's your rego?" , " do you need an ambo?" and so on. Even the politicians are at the articulation levels of a market stall holder. You'd get laughed at talking like that in any position of importance in the UK. Bunch of hoons.

 

Nice one, imagines if a similar muppet with moronic myopia made a massive sweeping generalisation of England from watching their reality TV shows like Geordie Shore and Love Island...? Best you stay there in your little village, after all if you left they'd be missing their idiot. 

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hawkinspeter replied to Roulereo | 6 years ago
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Roulereo wrote:

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

Seems an idiot culture to me. Watch a police programme on YouTube and everyone talks like a 5 year old. "Where's your rego?" , " do you need an ambo?" and so on. Even the politicians are at the articulation levels of a market stall holder. You'd get laughed at talking like that in any position of importance in the UK. Bunch of hoons.

 

Nice one, imagines if a similar muppet with moronic myopia made a massive sweeping generalisation of England from watching their reality TV shows like Geordie Shore and Love Island...? Best you stay there in your little village, after all if you left they'd be missing their idiot. 

I'll have you know that almost all our villages have easily more than one idiot.

Typical Aussies and their lack of population density.

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burtthebike replied to hawkinspeter | 6 years ago
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hawkinspeter wrote:

I'll have you know that almost all our villages have easily more than one idiot.

I've got more than one in my house.

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ErnieC replied to Yorkshire wallet | 6 years ago
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Yorkshire wallet wrote:

everyone talks like a 5 year old. "Where's your rego?" , " do you need an ambo? Bunch of hoons.

Wha? Whas wrong wiff ya?

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hawkinspeter | 6 years ago
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I like Australia and the Australians that I've met, but as a culture, they seem to ape the U.S. - hate for cyclists and as racist as you like.

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rkemb | 6 years ago
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the driver was charged with 'Reckless Driving Causing Injury'

Why is this never assault and battery? Or attempted murder? This is not an appropriate charge for a deliberate act of violence with a blunt instrument.

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don simon fbpe | 6 years ago
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Beyond words!

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