Video: Motorist drives into cyclist at Oldham roundabout

FFS. an accident happens. no one is seriously hurt. the perpetrator takes responsibility and tends to the welfare of the injured person. get over yourselves!!

Is it just me but it looked to me that the driver got out with his phone in his hand?...

In the interests of balance, I saw a cyclist do much the same to a car last week. I was turning right at a roundabout. A car at the 9 o clock entrance was waiting for me to go past, when a cyclist came barrelling up and went into the back of the car. He skidded to a halt and jumped over the bars but not before his front wheel hit the car. I'm guessing he broke a spoke or two at least.

Don't dress like a ninja on a bicycle. 

I have been rear ended while wait entering at a junction just like the poor bloke. Fortunately I was driving car so I ended up with a reshaped boot of my car than any hospitalisation.

I believe that it is more of a junction design problem rather than a driver's fault. The angle seems too sharp to enter the circular way, so the drivers have to turn their heads too much.

It happened to a friend of mine when he was driving a car too.  The car behind was waaay quicker off the mark pulling away from lights on to a roundabout, and didn't feel the need to check whether the car in front was moving.  My friend was in an old Land Rover Defender, so his vehicle escaped without a scratch whilst the one behind was completely trashed.

I've also seen something similar from my office window - a traffic queue on a main road through the city, and cars running into the back of the one in front because they were watching traffic lights changing and traffic starting to move that was four or five cars ahead, rather than paying attention to what the car immediately in front of them was doing.

Totally the driver's fault, in the case in hand, and you could even make a case for distracted/careless driving, surely? 

I note the driver not too shocked to check damage to his car first! 

Bloody cyclists: denting my shiny car..

Had the same done to me when I was on a motorbike waiting to leave a petrol station. The bloke got out of his car and after initially apologising, he then decided a fight would be a better option and suggested that I should try and take the money to repair the damage 'out of his hide'! Fortunately I actually knew him and when I pointed this out he became apologetic again and paid for the damage.

People are odd.

In the 1970s,  a friend and clubmate was killed by a motorist doing exactly this. 

good job he avoided those nasty disc brakes on the car! 

Lucky the cyclist was wearing a helmet - saved his life!!

"motorist apparently failed to see him"

Motorist didn't look. He was right in front of him. Appalling driving.

driver was too busy looking to his right for a gap in the traffic.

Rubbish situational awareness...

Dura Ace on a BMC. Driver could end up with a worse shock than that cyclist when the repair bill comes in 

Both looked like they got off lightly though thankfully.