Updated: Norwich Police seek driver who tweeted about collision with cyclist

Trouble is - all of this attention - deserved or otherwise - has turned this minx into a small time celebrity sensation. I'm sure .. if he wasn't under "serious judicial review" (gotta tread carefully here - remember Silly Bercow and the cost of mouthing off???) ... that old smarmpot Max Clifford could turn her into an ugly pimple on everyone's face!!!!

Action and attitude say it all. Where is the humble meaningful apology? Where's the real sadness for what she (allegedly) did and what she definitely said? Where's the contrition?

Yeh, go and have a fag and a large gin & tonic down the pub, love, and tell everybody how smart and clever you are. I'm sure the world will hang on your every word ... and the oh-so-intelligent opinions you seem to want to share. Hmmmmm

From the description of the presumed incident by the rider involved (track back for this) Ms Way was not in full control of her vehicle when she came upon cyclists travelling in the opposite direction.

She is a very lucky lady as those cyclists could easily have been a Tractor or other substantial vehicle moving slowly along that minor road, and the outcome for her in terms of physical injury and damage to the car might have been much worse.

The car - chances are that a large percentage of the flashy cars being driven around by people 'who pay road tax' don't actually belong to them - they belong to the bank or their employer, or are provided by parental largesse and it follows that the 'road tax' of a company vehicle isn't normally paid by the driver either.

I'd reckon that all this exposure will have her wanting to crawl under a stone but in some ways she would get a lot of respect if she stands up and admits to her serious errors of judgement and acts to redress the situation with the parties involved. She may need to do this in a very public way

It's not hard to find out whether she was at the place claimed at the time of the incident. Her phone will have been checking in with GSM towers along the way, and those positions can be triangulated with relative ease should the courts require it.

"Lucky" for her all she hit was a cyclist if the descriptions of her driving are true. Even luckier cyclist given her previous driving claims.

I feel sorry for the poor fcuktard, after a busy afternoon googling yesterday she probably quickly realised you only get a £35 fine for killing a cyclist so they'll not lift a finger for spouting off on twitter about knocking one into a hedge. Fingers crossed she does a bit of porridge or gets at least an £18,000 fine so has to sell her car.

Well, that's backfired.

Bet she feels like a nob now

She looks and sounds like a prime candidate as an 'Apprentice' contestant. The future management of this country! We're all fucked.

I agree with the last poster Ian.

Heads up you, its the internet, people read it and you should understand now if not in the near future, a lot of people do believe what is written on the internet as I am sure you are about to discover when your arse is taken to a police station and followed by your visit to court and subsequent punishment. Which I hope is to the full letter of the law and the police and judge make an example of you.

You had a license to drive, not a license to drive other road users off the road, I'm guessing you're about to lose your license to drive.

As above. People are bound to recognise her and link her behaviour with your company. Negative marketing.

You never win against the internet.

Ah, Norfolk, where the council keep trying to rebuild cycle tracks as roads, because cyclists don't deserve any routes that cars can't use. When the overwhelming message from local highways departments is that cyclists don't count and can be treated with contempt, is it surprising that local young idiots drive like cyclists don't count?

I think that young driver is not a lone example, sadly. There are a lot of them about, driving too close or into people, abusing, intimidating and honking at them.

I'd caution that with victim, alleged perpetrator and witnesses now all having been spoken to by police, calm to allow the police to conduct due process is required. As for her employment? Again, let the legal process run it's course. I'm pretty sure a criminal conviction would ruin her training as an accountant anyway.

We don't know what is in her employment contract, but in mine there are a couple of clauses that would allow my employer to sack me for this. I hope her employer does the right thing as its unlikely she'll get anything other than a small fine and slap on the wrist from there courts, even if it gets that far.

Unless her behaviour is checked she's going to kill someone, hopefully some appropriate action by her employer can make her change her behaviour

Ian Fitch, please sack her.
And don't give her a reference.
Words are not going to teach this individual anything.

With things like this happening we all need to sign the gov petition to promote safer roads.

see the link and make sure you get other people to sign it.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49196

If she does escape a ban hopefully she'll just collide with a tree next time out and not involve anyone else.

"descending a hill"? I thought Norfolk was flat

It's beyond depressing to think that people can mow others down on the road in what clearly had the potential to be a fatal incident, and just carry on as if nothing happened. It takes a really special kind of arsehole to do that.

She should lose her job, she'll be in court for motoring offences and the press will cover it. Her ignorance and her arrogance has just turned her whole world upside down.
And she has already had tons of hate messages no doubt, some probably quite sick, but that is not something I approve of. Report it, share it, discuss it by all means but leave it there people...

If all is as it seems then this is a terrible thing. If. But we need to wait and see. This is starting to sound like a lynch mob and is making me feel queasy. Let's not be the pitchfork wielding peasants in the Hammer movie.

Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat, people.

To educate drivers like this, I propose their closest loved ones cycle on roads in similar situations. The offenders then be taken as a passenger in a car which endangers the lives of their loved ones (for the sake of waiting 30 seconds).

Or get them out on a bike to experience both the joys of cycling, and the (sometimes) terror of being buzzed/abused/hit by the minority of drivers.

Hopefully, they will wake up to the sheer idiocy of their behaviour.

It's incredibly depressing that BBC Radio Norfolk appear to be taking this as an excuse to wheel out the usual crap about cyclists not paying road tax. Local radio in Bristol did exactly the same thing when me and a race organiser appeared on it to talk about CX racing being banned from local parks. Nothing to do with the subject at all.

I guess it's the attitude of "hey, it's causing a bit of controversy so it must be good for our listener numbers". Which is one reason (among many) that I don't listen to local radio.

The BBC's Nick Conrad is on the case now, his question...

"I have the right of way he doesn't even pay road tax" - is it time cyclists did?

https://www.facebook.com/nconrad

It seems that Emma is training to be a tax advisor. No wonder this is an embarrassment to her employer - a tax advisor.
http://www.bizea.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=967:...

"He doesn't pay road tax" so presumably deserves to be hit"

Apple take note..

no one pays 'road tax' specifically. local councils have funding for it, so if someone earns more than you and subsequently pays more tax, they contribute more towards the roads via their tax than you by default, regardless of whether they even own any sort of vehicle or not. she pays VED, unless she has a hybrid, but this is calculated by the emissions that contribute to pollution. dumb shits, i've never even had a car and know this.

Is cycle hatred confined to the UK? I've seen articles suggesting that it extends to Aussie cricketers and aged Americans in 4-by-4s - but is it as prevalent in other countries?

It's difficult to believe that someone likes to brag about something like this.

I hope the Norfolk police and Larking Gowen have the courage to show people this type of behaviour will not be tolerated.

If she loses her license and her job (and what employer would want a liability like this on their payroll?) then maybe - just maybe - some of the other f*ckwits who think it's OK to maim and kill begin to realise that it most definitely is not.