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A fraction of a second before impactVideo: What's it like to be hit head-on by a car? Police seek driver for this attack
Police have appealed for information and witnesses to a callous hit and run that left a 34-year-old office worker in the gutter with broken bones.
The driver of a blue Volkswagen drove away after knocking the man off his bike in Slough, Berkshire last month. Despite gut-wrenching video footage from the rider’s handlebars, police have been unable to trace the driver involved in the hit-and-run crash.
Patrick Knetemann, 34 was riding along in Langley Park Road, Iver, at 4.30pm on June 14, when a black VW crossed from the opposite lane and hit him.
The impact threw him from his bike into the car’s windscreen, which shattered from the force of the collision.
Knetemann was thrown to pavement as the driver left. An off-duty paramedic happened to be on the scene and looked after him until he could be taken to Wexham Park Hospital.
Amazingly, Knetemann only sustained bruises and fractures. His bike was not so lucky; after being flung through the air it landed behind the car with the fork snapped just below the crown.
Knetemann said: "He came out of nowhere. The impact was so quick I had no time to stop.
"I hit the windscreen with my shoulder and it shattered straight away - that shows how fast and hard he hit me.
"I think he was turning right to go into the Kwik Fit garage and didn't see me.
"But I had a light on my bike, and I was wearing a bright red helmet.
"After one or two seconds he sped off leaving my there on the pavement."
According to ITV, Thames Valley Police says it is investigating the hit-and-run. A spokesman was unable to say if officers had yet spoken to the driver.
Patrick Knetemann said police officers had told him the number plates on the car that hit him were false.
The driver of the Volkswagen Golf is described as white, of thin build, with very short brown hair, aged in his twenties and he was wearing a white t-shirt.
Investigating officer PC Richard Jeffcoate, from Taplow police station, said: "I am appealing for any witnesses or anyone with any information about this collision to contact police.
"The cyclist had footage from a camera mounted on his bicycle showing the incident and enquiries are currently being carried out by officers in relation to this.
"If you know who the driver is or if you were driver of the car please contact me via the 24-hour Thames Valley Police enquiry centre on 101 quoting URN 1139 14/6."
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Sorry mate, i didn't see you (bouncing off my windscreen)....
Time for the law to get serious when they catch this scumbag driver and throw the book. If drivers start to think they can get away with this type of action, there' no knowing where it will end.
Glad that Mr Knetemann wasn't more seriously injured and I've got some T-cut knocking around to help getting the bike to working order.
Looks like the corrupt useless fucking fluorescent plod are looking for excuses already
All to ready to hand out dubious faked offence 50 pound penalty tickets though
morons
I think thats somewhat harsh, if the number plate was false the car was more than likely stolen, the fact the driver pissed off clearly suggests something wasn't right.
It's a bloody scary video that's for sure, so pleased the guy is OK, it just highlights how quickly horrible accidents like this can happen, sickens me.
I think you get more than a £50 fine for criminal damage to a car
Because if the Slough Police are as useless as my local Police then the cyclist will probably get done
That is "a bit odd" indeed.
Okay, fair point.
For the number plate - if you are going to use false ones then you find a vehicle and clone it....much less likely to be quizzed if you get stopped for something else... So maybe not odd at all. This used to happen all the time with the London congestion zone.
Nasty footage. I really think I should get myself a camera...
Just before the headless chickens arrive... the driver made a simple mistake. He either didn't look properly, or he looked and misjudged the speed of the cyclist (happens a lot). Glad the rider is OK, and hopefully they'll track down the driver soon.
Am I missing the irony in your post ? Hit and run is acceptable behaviour is it ?
There's not much "simple mistake" in speeding off after 2 seconds and leaving an injured human being (the extent of those injuries unknown to you) on the pavement. The actual collision could be written off as misjudgement - one that should have you needing to sit a re-test, in my opinion - but leaving the scene is a serious and conscious crime of commission.
Simple mistake? The collision may not have been intentional, but the cowardly bastard drove off and it seems that he didn't report the incident. And he left a cyclist who could have been seriously injured or dead.
So he's committed at least two serious offences. And he cannot possibly be unaware of the collision, because he braked and must have reversed before driving-off with a shattered windscreen.
So who's the headless chicken now?
So the MIB say the vehicle is uninsured. So there's the motive for the driver driving-off.
It's likely that the vehicle was booked in at the garage for some work. Which seems peculiar for a vehicle using false plates. If it were stolen, why not steal another one?
I suspect that if PLOD were to get off their arses and do what they're supposed to do, that they'd find that the vehicle is in regular use, that any 'alibi' provided by the driver was false and that they've actually got a case of attempting to pervert the course of justice; plus driving uninsured, driving off after an accident; failing to report an accident involving bodily injury and property damage.
They should throw the book at the driver.
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Perhaps the Police should read their own vehicle collision investigation manual.
Would be nice, wouldn't it?
Mark Treasure said this on Twitter:
Hi to you all out there. This car surely cannot be that difficult to trace,even if the registration is a false one the car will need a new windscreen and there cannot be that many places that could be used to fit a new screen.
Black VW's are ten a penny but dark blue are not.
Even if the driver and or owner laid low for a while and then ventured out for a replacement it would need ordering and an appointment made to have it fitted.
The car will almost certainly have sustained body damage that will need repairing.
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