Motorist who punched cyclist into oncoming traffic jailed for two years

I think it's best to get the close pass on camera and report to Police.
It's not worth it being mashed up like that just to have your say.
This type of driver can't help it, anyone who stops ahead is wanting a fight that they will win.
It's very satisfying and probably better for the motorist to receive a prosecution letter from the Police with no connection to you or driver involvement with you.
It's also about staying safe, the close pass is done what's next, a fist fight with the driver.
No skip that and let the driver be wondering how he/she appeared on film, maybe a close pass on the next cyclist is not a good idea.

Any bodily harm could mean a very minor injury, as we know, police are not interested in minor injuries to cyclists (nor even on occasion major ones either) and do not consider them to be crimes so applying wanton to cyclists should be seen in exactly the same way as motorists being let off for their actions.

You can't have yet another discriminatory outcome for lesser harm compared to that to someone in a known killing machine acting in a similar manner, to attempt to compare the two is ridiculous in the extreme. 1.5ton mass or 6-25kg bicycle!

Furious cycling is a low level crime because the outcome of such is massively less likely to harm at a level that a motirist could do whilst being just a little bit careless. It's the equalling up the criminal offences and no doubt the punishments that I'm worried about because, the public, jurists, judges and even police cannot see the massive difference between a cyclist who goes on the pavement to avoid a busy road for their safety and collides with a person walking around the corner who then dies, mainly because they are old and infirm, to a motorist who callously and recklessly uses their vehicle at five times the speed of the cyclist and kills four people. 

According to those with the power, the former is borderline hanging, the latter, an unfortunate 'accident' with a chief constable making excuses for the motorist right from the outset which are a pack of lies.

We have been fucked over time and time and time again, it isn't going to get worse unless someone takes legal action against the goivernment to stop these injustices and unlawful discrimination against one group and one group only. It is having the effect of more deaths and life changing injuries, people being forced to renounce the group for fear of being killed.

I don’t think laws really deteriorate with age, though they may become less relevant or need updating. Furious cycling is an odd offence, and could probably go, and it’s not unreasonable to suggest that there should be a law for causing death or serious injury while cycling, though one has to wonder whether it’s worth the effort given the rarity of such occurrences. You’d be better looking at why no one convicts on dangerous or careless driving offences if you wanted to deal with ineffective laws, but there’s no public appetite for that. I certainly don’t that GBH needs updating, and certainly not in the light of this case. If you push someone into the path of traffic and cause them to be injured, then that’s GBH, and that’s what he was charged with. Ta da. 2 years is within the range of acceptable sentencing, though one wonders what you’d have to do that he didn’t to hit the higher end of things.

Either way, the charge and sentence are in accordance with the law. You might argue that the judge could have imposed a stricter sentence, but that’s down to the judge, not the law.

Sorry lads, i have to do it.

I hope he's lost control of his sphincter by the time he's released. #himtoo

You might all think it was lenient, well how about this one from last year ?

https://road.cc/content/news/230556-van-driver-pleads-guilty-assault-aft...

"Further down the road he had stopped and, as the complainant went past, he rugby tackled her from the bike and she hit the back of her head on the road surface.”

Her injuries, which besides a broken sacrum as well as cuts and bruises meant she was unable to run or cycle for eight weeks.

And the outcome was

a suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay compensation.

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/van-driver-assaulted-cycl...

No doubt a suspended setence because "To be honest, I thought you were a bloke”.

So premeditated GBH, and he gets two sodding years, this country is a joke, counter that with 18 months because someone decided to run into you whilst you're braking and steering away from them ffs!

The victim cannot appeal against an unduly lenient sentence.  Only the Attorney General (acting through the CPS) can.

And the AG can only appeal in "indictable only" matters.  Section 18 - GBH with intent - is such an offence, but Secton 20 (the cargo in this case) is not.  Of course, the CPS could/should have charged a Section 18, but that’s for proper nightclub fights; a cyclist doesn’t merit that level of care, obviously.

Frankly  had the car been in motion I doubt that the CPS would have done anything more than a careless driving charge - £200 fine and a "please don’t (get caught if you) do it again".

I'm wondering what the sentence would be for someone walking down the street who attacked a stranger and left them with such horrific injuries?

Definitely appeal, far too lenient.  The judge himself used the words 'catastrophic' and 'lack of ability to control temper' so it follows that this guy should have both a longer sentence for the deliberate injuries he chose to inflict and secondly to have his licence revoked on the grounds that he's a %ucking liability to the wider public on the SHARED public highway.

Frankly he was unlucky to get a custodial sentence given the violence out there but agree, had he just run the guy over we'd be looking at a brief ban and a small fine at best.

Yet still we all do nothing as an oppressed collective apart from click on these stories and berate wider society.  

The cyclist should appeal the sentence. Don't accept two years. Make the judicsory answerable for it's poor sentencing.

I'm due to be attending a case of careless driving due to a driver running in to the back of me and already am expecting to be appealling whatever sentence is handed out.

The irony being he’d probably have got a shorter sentence if he’d just brake checked the cyclist or sideswiped him. Two years? You don’t get that for killing someone with your car!

Not long enough IMHO. Bastard could have, and very nearly did, kill a man for a lack of control. Two years for this is somewhat lenient and again a driver is given a short sentence for attacking a cyclist.