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Addison Lee logo - white on blackVideo of 'masturbating' Addison Lee cab driver made public
The Sun has published helmet camera footage filmed by a London cyclist that shows an Addison Lee minicab driver apparently masturbating while looking at a pornographic magazine while driving.
Helmet camera user Lewis Dediare shot the footage on Saturday, although he did not want to make it public until he had pixellated some details, including we assume the Addison Lee logo . You can watch it here.
However, his original tweet on Saturday made clear that was the firm whose driver features in the video, shot in Pimlico, and a commenter to the Sun's story says that its logo is visible on a mobile phone in the car's centre console.
The 48-year-old, who has appeared in several documentaries featuring helmet camera footage, told the Sun: “I was so shocked by what I saw. I didn’t expect it.
“As I was cycling towards him I noticed him driving into the cyclists’ box. The light had turned red and he had plenty of time to stop, but he carried on driving.
“As I got closer I realised he was looking at a pornographic magazine.
“It scares me to think that he could be picking women up after looking at pornography. He is a taxi driver, he could be carrying my sister. It is absolutely disgusting.”
The video, which you can watch here – shows the driver eventually rolling his window down, with the cyclist telling him: “First of all stop looking at porno. Number two, pay attention when you are coming to a red light.
"You entered the box, that’s three points and a £100 fine, so no pornography. I will report you for looking at pornography on the road while you are in command of a vehicle!”
Dediare told the Sun: “I am definitely going to show this footage to the police. He dismissed me like I was wasting his time. He will definitely be hearing from the courts.”
The video has not yet been posted to his Son Of The Winds Inc YouTube channel and has been supplied to the Sun (and Daily Express) via an agency.
Meanwhile one road.cc user replied to our tweet about the original story with a knew version of the Addison Lee logo he had quickly, ahem, knocked out.
.@roadcc New logo. pic.twitter.com/Bf7NldEdgT
— Paul Kennedy (@paul_K_fair_oak) February 7, 2016
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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I've got a little motor hidden in my seat tube, that tosses me off as I ride my bike.
Mechanical assistance!
Not all drivers are wankers, just most of them.
The driver needs a stiff punishment
He should be bloody well hung,
if the evidence stands up in court!
I was on my bike & pulled off by a driver once...
He was en route to Barclays Bank
Surely all delivery drivers have to pass a basic manual handling skills course as part of their 'on the job' training? As long as he conducted a proper safety assessment before handling the package, used correct technique and wore appropriate PPE, then there's really no problem.
TBH as a bloke i'm not overly enamoured with it either. Think i'd rather let him keep the change than let him hand me a few coins *shudder*
Got news for you trafficdroid, almost any bloke your sister meets HAS been looking at porn at some point!
Talk about your sheltered life.
Agree with sentiment expressed here, there's a disturbing whiff of Victorian sanctimony on display.
"I will report you for looking at pornography on the road while you are in command of a vehicle!”
If he was driving dangerously then that should be the end of it. The nature of the reading material (porn, Andrea Dworkin, Catharine Mackinnon - whatever) is immaterial to the law. This is (or perhaps should be, but maybe I am too much of a prude) socially unacceptable but there's no reason to get the law involved.
The link to The Sun which is showing the video appears twice in the article.
I did post the link to the video earlier but it seems Road.cc mods don't like it. However I've saved the video and will upload it so if you want it get hold of me via Twitter on @Redveee
Ah, no linky no fun
I came here to see a taxi driver knocking one off.
Was that before or after?
"OI! You've stopped in an ASL and....... Oh my God!" would have been my reaction. I certainly wouldn't have spoken to the driver.
At least I know why my follower count is growing now.
Just another cheesy helmet cam vid of some wanker stopping in the ASL.
Or, just another cheesy helmet cam vid of a cheesy helmet...
You get 3 points and a £100 fine for parking in the cycle box?
How is half of London still driving?!?!? So clearly spat at by drivers & not enforced at all - what's the point??
I love the way that the quote attributed to the cyclist suggests that the bad thing here is that he might pick up a female passenger after looking at porn, and that's disgusting.
Rather than, you know, driving while not looking at the road and potentially killing somebody...
What has this got to do with cycling?
Maybe road safety?
It was a cyclist that caught him roughing up the suspect, bashing the bishop, spanking the monkey, whisking his pudding, beating his meat, choking the chicken, bopping his beloni, etc...
Viz's Rogets Profanasorous?
Taking Captain Picard to warp-speed...
...decorating the dashboard...
...splashing the speedo....
Can we have "driving into the cyclists’ box" as a different kind of euphamism?
I am not sure which is more funny, the fact he was caught knockin one out in the car or the fact this cycle cop reads the law to him about his stopping in a ASL then throws in I caught you wanking... Only in London.