UPDATED: Essex road rage van driver hands himself in, but cyclist declines to press charges

Hopefully social media justice will be dealt out as the laws of the land haven't had an impact.

Hopefully social media justice will be dealt out as the laws of the land haven't had an impact.

Driver clearly a nut job.. But not the smartest move by the cyclist to undertake the van at a junction. He could of stayed behind the van once being passed until both had cleared the junction...

Emma Way + The Only Way is Essex = Taylor Lanscaping

There are always at least 3 sides to a storey/incident: opposing sides and the real truth. It is easy to bash the police here but there is so much more to these situations and potential prosecutions that clearly people are not aware of and don't understand. This is NOT a perfect world unfortunately.

Am I being stupid here, but why report an incident to the police if you don't want to press charges?

Something just doesn't quite add up to me, it all seems a little fishy. I'd be inclined to believe the suggestion that the cyclist, upon presenting themselves to the police station was (misguidedly) warned (or threatened) off pushing ahead with charges for any multitude of reasons.

I think in cases like this there is a public duty for the police to intervene before he goes on to do something more dangerous than just rough up another road user. And wasn't a range rover driver recently jailed for similar shenanigans after hitting a cyclist with his wing mirror, then assaulting him and demanding cash from him? How is this any different?

And the passenger is also heard telling the driver to get off the phone, so the police could charge the passenger for smoking and the driver for using a phone whilst driving. Fat chance of that.

The victim took the vid off YouTube, presumably having a change of heart for some reason. They have also declined to raise the matter with the police.

I'm not sure why someone else has copied and reposted the video. Is this a social media version of fire starting - sit back and watch the shitstorm grow? There's certainly a shitstorm, and to no-one's benefit.

I use a helmet cam. I see loads of shit driving. (To be honest I wonder how many of us would pass the current driving test if we took it again)! The cam is there to provide evidence to the Police if something serious enough happens to warrant reporting. Nothing goes on You Tube.

We don't need an escalation of hatred, and as the comments on FB show, that's just what these video's cause.

Unless that is Mr. Taylor himself, the upshot will probably a trip down the Job Centre come Monday morning. Did this gentleman not realize his is Highly Visible? and easily identifiable.

Why does the cyclist bother buying a camera, wearing it and uploading footage from it ... if when the worst happens he doesn't want to follow it through?

This is why I haven't got writing on my van.

It's bash the police time again I see.

Apart from the cycling zealots I doubt that many of the public would see the benefit of taking this guy to court when at best common assault or minor public order when the victim doesn't want to know.

With no victim when your whole case is based on a video that will need to be proven as unedited then you've got problems when challenged.

The public interest isn't necessarily road cc police bashers interest.

Compare the actions and outcome of Mr Taylor Landscaping and the similarities in this story http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/peckham-cyclist-jailed-after-dragging-london-bu... There is clear evidence of multiple laws being broken and yet no prosecution for Mr Taylor Landscaping. How come?

Firstly if he is 34 he needs to start moisturising and secondly he needs to start exercising, maybe cycling.
And thirdly, I would have felt I was in serious danger, and beat the sh#t out of the idiot using only the required amount of force to protect my person.

For f*** sake. The Police's role is to enforce the law as a neutral body. If they can't do that, then that's when people feel obliged to resort to vigilante action, which has little grasp of balance and is fuelled by anger and the desire for revenge.

Arrest this man - it is clear he has done something wrong. He even came to you!

There certainly is evidence from the video, the deliberate turn in of the nearside wheel to trap the cyclist against the curb could not be clearer. The oik then tries to make out the cyclist smashed into his van before punching him in the musher.

Don't understand why the cyclist would go to the trouble of posting the vid but then decline to press charges. The cycling community needs this actioned.

Great spot by bikecellar about the other geezer smoking in a place of work. Would the cyclist need to make an allegation on this as well before plod will do something?

What does "making an allegation" mean?

I was involved in an accident 6 months ago where a car turned across my path right in front of me, and I fractured my wrist and broke a rib. I spoke to the police on scene and made it clear I thought it was the other party's fault - they were coming in the opposite direction and turned across my lane right in front of me. There was a witness and she spoke to the police as well. The police informed me they thought it was an incident with no one to blame, and I informed them I disagreed. The witness said she gave her details to the police.

Cue some months later, where I'm trying to make a claim through solicitors, and I find out the police never took a witness statement because I didn't make an allegation. What the hell is that supposed to mean? They never asked me if I wanted to do so, whatever it is.

Prima facie, so all the police need is an acceptance of guilt and he will be dooomed

Ah right, so if I murder someone, when I get away with it because the victim will not press charges?

"Havering CID spoke to the cyclist. He informed police that he did not wish to pursue any further allegations"

This shouldn't preclude prosecution. Ideally, the driver would be prosecuted but not have the excuse/justification-for-anger that it was the cyclist wot done it. Even in his own eyes, he'd then have no-one to blame but himself and might think a little harder because of it.

It's very hard to see why one wouldn't report a crime over something like that unless the police involved tried to talk one out of it. I'm very curious what's gone on here.

Surprised no one has mentioned the other offence being committed, the passenger in the van is smoking in what I believe is a place of work.

I find it hard to believe that the police are not taking that further, with or without the cooperation of the victim. The thug needs to be brought to justice for the protection of the general public.

Actually, no, from experience I can believe that the police aren't going to do anything.

Ah well, at least the internet has come to the rescue when the CPS hasn't!