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Justice (Lonpicman, Wikimedia Commons)Driver fined £625 & given five points for attacking cyclist with car
A driver who left the scene after deliberately driving into a cyclist and knocking him off his bike in Richmond Park has been fined just £625 and given five penalty points.
Jon Weale, 29, from Kingston, Surrey was driving his Jaguar X-type on Sawyer’s Hill in the park on July 27 last year, when he drew alongside a cyclist, Lavender Hill Magistrates’ Court heard.
According to Tom Ambrose in the Richmond & Twickenham Times, Weale’s passenger shouted abuse at the cyclist about who had right of way. Weale sounded his horn and the rider responded by swearing.
Weale then drove at the cyclist, knocked him off his bike, and drove away.
He pleaded not guilty to charges of driving without due care and attention and failing to stop.
The court fined Weale £100 for careless driving but did not endorse his licence. He was fined a further £250 and ordered to pay £250 costs and a victim surcharge of £25.
For the failing to stop offence he was given five penalty points.
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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Road rage or 'roid rage?
Either way he's got anger management issues.
That's the right attitude but it's hard to resist the desire to get back at this guy, he could have killed that rider and should be made a huge example of. Utter t##t.
[[[[[ You are talking horsecrap. And what's "backwards to ten"? Are you drunk?
If this is the person concerned then yes, he is perhaps someone to be avoided. But is this really him? Are you absolutely sure? And by posting these details on the Internet, are you not risking some sort of rough justice being meted out to him? I don't think the sentence he received was appropriate, but nor do I believe in mob rule or vigilante action.
I couldn't condone mob rule but naming and shaming might make people think twice in future. I'd like to think that some drivers may have learnt from the Emma Way incident.
If some rough justice is applied then won't the miscreants will get similarly thorough treatment from the law as this jackass 'personal trainer'?
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/unduly_lenient_sentences/
I would suggest giving it a shot, but it will fail. The courts simply don't give a shit. The fact that attempted murder is treated at a magistrates level about sums it up.
I guess going round slashing tyres as self defence would get gaol time though!!
Another punishment issued by Judge F*ckwit. This makes me furious.
38 degrees might be interested to get this going as a campaign to change the law.
Loss of license and jail time, its gbh with a car.
The mind boggles.
Did he really not even get any points on his licence? If so that's unbelievable. He shouldn't even have a licence at this point, nor any prospect of getting one in the foreseeable future.
They didn't give him any points for deliberately driving a large car at another human being with the intent to kill or injure them.
He was given 5 points for failing to stop at the scene.
This is basically assault
Hang on, how is driving a car at a cyclist "careless"? It's a deliberate act!
And this idiot wasn't given a ban. Brilliant. As you were.
Not even surprised anymore, pleaded not guilty and still got barely a slap on the wrist. If the cyclist had punched the driver through the window he'd have probably got a custodial, but drive your car at someone and it's a £100 fine. He got more for leaving the scene than for actually driving his car deliberately at the cyclist.
attacking with a car is at least as deadly as a knife or gun, so cant see why this isn't attempted murder, or GBH at least?
If he would have got out his car and hit the bloke with a baseball bat he'd have got a lot worst for doing identical damage. Crazy Laws, and a PATHETIC justice system we have in this country.
Waste of taxpayers money beyond belief.
I've often thought that if someone knocks me off I'm just going to get up and deck them, I'd get more satisfaction from that than seeing them get some pathetic fine
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