Video: Road rage meltdown driver who threatened to kill cyclist fined for public order offence

For context Priory lane (and Clarance lane) are used as a rat run by cars from the west heading to the A3. This means the avoid the poor junction with Roehampton lane. The traffic using Priory lane to get to the park or somewhere on Priory lane is very light. The cycle path on the side is rubbish and vanishes half way along.
It's the rat runners that will overtake badly like the two in this video. Even in a car if you stick to the speed limit car will overtake you (or keep trying to). It's a road with much more motor vehicle traffic on it than it can handle.

Oh the irony that a Range Rover driver thinks a bike is taking up too much room.

4x4 in urban environments should be banned - more emissions, more risk of serious injury if they drive into someone, more space taken up on the road and in parking spaces.

Well first off the person in the KA was driving dangerously and overtaking a cyclist on a mini roundabout. Then the Range Rover driver is following the Ka driver when it was obviously going to cause problems for the cyclist he was overtaking.

Both the Ka Driver and the Range Rover driver had no real care for the safety of the cyclists they were over taking. No wonder so many cyclists get killed in London and other towns and cities.

I think the Range Rover Driver should be done for dangerous driving as well as a public disorder offence.

As for the cyclist shouting at the driver obviously we don't like to see that but the cyclist was in danger of losing his life so it is understandable he is bound to shout at the driver if the a gets too close to the point of being run off the road.

So like many comments here I would agree the cyclist that has to be congratulated for not getting into a fight with the driver of the Ranger Rover when he decided to step out of his car to have a go.

Hats off to the other cyclist who tried to intervene and calm things down.

Scary to think that this Range Rover driver is still allowed to drive around with all that bottled up anger within him. What happened here to this cyclist will only happen again to another road user that crosses the path of this Range Rover driver.

A driving ban and many meetings with a psychiatrist to sort out this driver's metal health problems should be called for just in case he really does attempt to kill someone because of his uncontrollable anger issues.

I cycle up that road every week and never use that dreadful bike lane it's hopeless. Well done to the cyclist for staying so calm with all those threats going on in his face. Will defo look out for that reg number and driver, maybe mention his youtube performance to him.

That shared used cycle/footpath on Priory Lane is more hassle than it's worth.

We had a similar incident a couple of years ago with a white van which cut us up, pulled in and the passenger jumped out screaming and yelling abuse about using the cycle path. Fortunately we could slam the brakes on and stop before getting to him and there were 3 of us.
Had numerous run-ins down there. The cycle lane isn't fit for purpose (well, it's OK for kids) but not using it really imflames drivers.

This is the problem with shit infrastructure. Build crap and cyclists won't use it but drivers get arsey cos you're not using it. It's actually more dangerous than building nothing at all.

If they removed that cycle path completely and had pavement/road you'd have no problems.
If they build a proper decent segregated track that doesn't give way to every side road and driveway, it'd be fine and cyclists would use it.

As well as the points made about giving way at side-roads, I've found drivers sometimes completely block it while using it as a handy parking-space (even though its on the pavement).

And was there no penalty for the initial downright-threatening overtake?

Why is menacing someone with a car treated so lightly compared with, say, swinging a baseball bat towards them?

It's interesting that he was prosecuted for a public order offence and not his bad driving.

small men in big cars - a problem all over, for other drivers as well as bikers and pedestrians

A threat to kill on Twitter and made to anybody other than a cyclist would have ended in this guy spending a couple of months in prison.

Surely screaming "I'm going to kill you" in somebody's face is worse.

What makes this different ?

Hard working, hard pressed family driver... Driving licences should be subject to psychological profiling

Roof rack mounted cycle carrier a nice ironic touch. Wonder how he'd react if some dick head driver threatened and then kicked off at him or one of his family when they were cycling.

Salt of the earth that bloke.....

Love how he insults what the cyclist is wearing...lovely skin tight leather jacket!

he doesnt half look like ex footballer Neil Ruddock, if he'd lost a few pounds

The driver was very clearly in the wrong.

The cyclist knew he was taping the incident so once the guy stopped and was very clearly losing the plot why stoop to his level? The cyclist seemed to lose it every bit as quickly as the driver.

'I could eat you for breakfast'
'Why don't you drop me then?'

Again why respond to that threat? It's only encouraging a physical confrontation.

That, to me, is a textbook example of how not to respond to those incidents. There's plenty of witnesses and the whole thing is on tape. I would have kept my mouth shut, let him have his rant then report it to the police.

What an utter dickhead!

Uncouth of the cyclist to lose it like that but doesn't detract that the driver is clearly wrong and instigated the situation.

Also I have no sympathy for anyone who drives huge SUVs in London. In fact, they should pay an extra couple of thousands a year in cunt tax.

what's truly ironic is that there's a bicycle rack on the roof of that SUV...

Well that escalated quickly! Should have got a driving ban, he's a danger to other road users

"did you thump my car?"
he was nearly inside/under it, champ!

Well it would have been a glesga kiss from me

That guy need his SUV replaced with a bicycle to give him a sense of perspective. He has a serious problem.

I am beyond impressed at both cyclists' calm manner of dealing with that confrontation. I would have punched him in the face 15 seconds in, but I think that's a New Yorker thing.

+1 for that British aplomb.

There's a f**king field next to the f**king road you dull f**king 4x4 f**king driver, get your f**king 4x4 off the f**king road you dull c**t! You shouldn't be on the f**king road with a 4x4 you f**king c**t!
I always find it interesting that drivers are happy to pass so close, or even touch cyclists, that they might damage their precious cars. Yet the second they percieve that the cyclist touches their car, they go ballistic.
This guy needs help. Seriously, that is such an overreaction that he needs some sort of phsycological help.