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Police tape (CC licensed by freefotouk on Flickr)Instagram video shows driver knocking cyclist off bike – the second such incident in same Surrey town in three months?
A video posted to Instagram shows a driver deliberately knocking a cyclist from their bike, all for the sake of likes – and is said to have taken place in the same town in Surrey where a similar incident that left a cyclist with a broken leg in September was the subject of a police witness appeal.
The footage, and mirror copies of it, have been deleted by the photo- and video-sharing network since being posted at the weekend following complaints from users, according to Mail Online.
However, that hasn’t prevented the website from itself posting the footage, which was reportedly filmed in Ewell, near Epsom in Surrey.
The motorist, driving a Volkswagen, tails the cyclist along a line of cars parked to the left while a passenger films.
He then shouts, “Oi!” and knocks the cyclist from his bike, onto the car bonnet from where he falls to the ground.
The cyclist shouts, “What are you f*ck*ng doing, you pr*ck?” while the car occupants continue laughing before the driver makes off.
It is unclear when the footage was shot, but road.cc can reveal that in September, Surrey Police issued an appeal for witnesses after a cyclist in Ewell sustained a broken leg when he was knocked from his bike, apparently on purpose, with the driver failing to stop.
That incident took place on 10 September at 9.20pm, two hours after sunset.
The police appeal, under crime reference number PR/45180097393, said:
It is believed that the cyclist, believed to be a man in his 40s, was knocked deliberately from his bike, causing him to sustain a compound fracture to his right leg. The car failed to stop following the incident, which took place in Gadesden Road at the junction with Scotts Farm Road. The car was described as a black 4x4, possibly a Vauxhall with roof bars, although enquiries remain ongoing to establish this.
The cyclist was taken to hospital where he remains in a serious but stable condition.
Officers are investigating whether the collision is linked to a knifepoint robbery at the Epsom Downs Viewpoint, off Grandstand Road, which took place earlier that evening around 8.55pm.
We have asked Surrey Police whether they are investigating the incident shown in the Instagram video, and also whether they believe it may be linked to the one in September.
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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Does he not remember how old he is? Due to concussion sustained in the incident?
How have i missed this thread up to now! It's got 'classic' written all over it!
You've got to love how DM reader LokiUK, Darwen comments "Cyclist should not be on the road without at least a helmet!".
I'm not sure if that's helpful safety advice or if he's saying "the cyclist was asking for it".
I've ridden up the devil's road, and trust me helmets don't make one jot of difference when it comes down to shite driving.
Never mind dropping paving stones on cars, he was clearly dropped on one as a child.
I've posted a lot of ill-thought-out crap on here but Leg's statement is taking the biscuit.
It's just as well I don't do that, then. Isn't it?
Go on then, give a convincing argument for escalating violence towards innocent people. I'm all for a bit of terrorism, it's not war, so we'll call it what it is. I'm just looking for the response for when plod catch up with me that'll keep me out of jail.
I'm disappointed that as our self appointed leader you've decided to runaway to The Netherlands, best of luck.
Prior to the establishment of the Irish Free State, 'terror' attacks were being carried out by the Fenians, targeting the British.
The British announced that thenceforth, every 'terror' attack would result in the hanging of ten people selected at random, from the area in which the attack took place.
The attacks stopped overnight.
Look, I get it. You're peace-loving, all men are equal, dib-dib-dib. But British cyclists are the subject of a campaign of intimidation, bullying, assault and murder. You can keep suffering that, whilst begging the drivers to stop hurting you. Or you can fight back.
<hands up in a 'I give up' sort of gesture>
Not my problem anymore. Or at least, it won't be.
You're not an army and you're not a terrorist. You must be a freedom fighter.
Cracking example there, I mean it's not like that approach sowed the seeds for the next 150 years or so or anything is it?
L11W - Rebel Without A Clue. Enjoy the doobies, try not to beat the wife and two kids if you don't get your fill of imagined conflicts out on the roads (I'm sure they'll be fine as you'll be late home most nights)
More importantly can the nutjob L11W bring his flights forward ASAP?
Call a Muslim a terrorist or ridicule a homosexual and quite rightly they are investigated as hate crimes, which carry some pretty heavy criminal penalties.
Deliberately knock a human being from a bicycle and it’s pretty much trivialised as amusement.
Driver should be charged with attempted murder and issued a lifelong driving ban.
In reality, if caught, will face a small fine and an assault charge that will be waterered down by a solicitor arguing the attacker was having a hard time in life and didn’t intend to injure anyone.
Yet again I ask why we collectively do nothing other than whinge about stories like this on road.cc, cyclists as a group appear depressingly unwilling to get organised and demand legislative change.
What use is it if you 'demand legislative change' only to be ignored?
They ignored a million of us in 2003. What makes you think they won't ignore a million cyclists, if by some miracle, that many protested now?
It doesn't need to be, and you could argue, it shouldn't be, classed as a hate crime. It should just be treated in the same way as violence against the person is treated when away from the roads. If you did this type of thing in the local shopping mall (ie deliberately cause serious injury to another person), then you would be locked up for it - especially if you used a deadly weapon, which is what a motor vehicle potentially is.
Society tends to classify hate crime as crimes against a group - the members of that group usually have no choice but to be members of that 'group' - ie LGBT, ethnic minorities, women, Jewish etc etc. These are not lifestyle choices, but cycling is. I get stick for being a vegan, but it's not really a hate crime, as veganism is a choice.
If violence is the answer then it needs to be pin-point accurate, like a D-lock to the skull of Dash Cam Bristol. Not random.
Many cats like cake!
They must be the good ones then.
They'll still eat your body when you die though (or your face if you're Aunt Helen)
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mmmm...crispy pancakes.
Until attacking a cyclist is seen as a hate crime and prosecution for posting 'attacks' on social media becomes a thing, cyclists will be seen as fair game.
We have a new generation of celebrity (or celebrity wannabe), who think nothing about harvesting 'likes', from their stupid / dangerous antics on videos and although some may well be fake, a lot of these attacks are very real and someone will get killed.
Today I had YouTube advertise me to watch a video by a youtuber - dash cam Bristol, assumably because I watch cyclist / cycling videos and he has submitted called 'cyclist vermin', which had already had 21k views. Within 2.05mins the video shows his bullying a female cyclist in to a kerb before swearing and honking her. His followers all lapping it up. Time to make an example of them!!
Re: Dash Cam Bristol - That's shitty. I trust that you reported the video to You Tube for hateful content?
I think that vid sums attitudes pretty well, 1 female cyclist who was harrassed by the van gets the abuse from followers while the other 10 mins 45 secs of shitty driving in an 11 min video is accepted. OK, the second old fella on the bike could well have stopped, but our intrepid cameraman wouldn't have been able to get a reaction if he'd driven more considerately. It's almost like people can't think.
Confused - says it happened after dark, but Mail vid is in daylight?
The September attack happened after dark, the article moves on to that one at the end. I've noticed this happen a few times on road.cc and it takes a while to work out they're talking about a different thing.
Mark.
If the video on the Fails site is what is being reffered to it looks pretty staged.
Not quite understanding this story.
Someone posted this video...the police can force the site to reveal who and work their way to the guilty party from that.
Doesn't matter if they deleted it, they have to store a copy for around a year I believe anyway before it gets permanently deleted. What went wrong here??
perhaps they'll do the decent thing and force road.cc to reveal the name and address of legs-eleven-worcester so he can spend some time in Broadmoor
What, again??
Do you keep getting sent to Broadmoor?
Now, select one motorway bridge at random, somewhere in Britain, and drop a paving stone onto a car.
And do this every single time a cyclist is deliberately targeted.
Why?
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