“Someone will die” if police fail to tackle "craze" warns cyclist seriously injured after car passenger pushed him

Even road.cc has fallen into the trap of using the standardised language that plays down the seriousness of the action, referring to it as an 'incident' in the sub-headline. Call it what it was - an assault.

As an outraged cyclist i will begin stalking car drivers. As they enter their lethal weapon (cars) i will push their head savagely against the top of the door, aiming for a concussion type of trauma. Surely the cops won't mind, because it will all be in good fun! Just a prank!

Arseholes of a backwards can't course:
Friggin poofs.

Wishing you well sir.
Last summer I recieved a slap on the arse from a drunken car, butt was lucky. He then wristed or handed my handlebars. I'm guessing 25kmph on 2% downgrade, body upright catching breath with hands free of grasp. I grabbed the bars and laughed thinking that the bar hit would've hurt.
Wishing you well sir.

IT WAS JUST A PRANK!

Will be the excuse if these shitstains ever get brought to justice. Mobile phone ' look at me' culture is to blame for this shit. I think the world needs a massive series of EMP explosions and we go back to luddite times. Your power meter would be fucked but you could still cycle.

I do wonder how the police would have responded if he'd fought back and ended up injuring one of the passengers, say by forcing their arm back against the window frame so it breaks. I have a feeling there would be charges brought against the cyclist then. The whole idea that they can't identify them is nonesense, with the amount of data available and video footage it would take some data analysis types very little time to figure out who was involved.

The mindset of most of the police that cyclists are taking risks by being on the road really is appalling, until they at least accept that we have the right to be there then it's not going to improve.

This happened April 2015.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEEN8loUHzM

Reported it to Kelly, and a week later, got an e-mail that the passenger had been fired. 

I didn't think any more of it until about six months later, when the thick twat who had been in the passenger seat posted a public comment to the video, confirming that he had lost his job over his actions, and warning me that if I ever cycled on that road again, there would be 'karma'.

Needless to say, I contacted the police who refused to act.   So I complained, and got a visit from a constable, who spouted such utter shite in the guise of legal advice that even my missus and I were amazed.  Bumped my complaint up the chain.   Got a call from a sergeant, who said that he couldn't do anything.

'Tell you what,' I replied.  'How about I post online that I'm going to kill Theresa May, how would that grab you?'

Two days later, I got an e-mail to say that the passenger had been given 'words of advice'. 

This was attempted murder and the police should treat it as such, not just another traffic incident.  If he had been killed, they would have devoted much more resources to it, but it was only chance that he didn't die; and next time someone will be killed.

Perhaps when BoTrump has appointed the 20,000 more police that he's promised, less than what the tories cut in the past ten years, they will have enough time to pursue incidents like this without having to wait for a body.

At the very least you would think if they knew what car was involved they could confiscate it for being used in a crime.

I do think it should be treated as attempted murder. Worryingly violence against cyclists seems to be praised and encouraged in some corners of society. The local travel and transport page of Facebook often has posts suggesting such treatment, bragging about it or encouraging it.

BS. The car owner is responsible for whomever is operating it. The car has keys. It wasnt stolen. The car owner is responsible for his injuries and can be prosecuted accordingly. If people cant be responsible enough to own a car they should lose that privilege. Its unsafe to have lawless drivers allowed to operate cars with no consequence. It blows my mind to hear police say stuff like that. It's like they are protecting the car owner from their agreed responsibility. The rest of the world makes fun of the USA saying we sue everyone. Well this is why.

It could have been my imagination, and I didn't watch the programme, but in the 2 weeks after the programme was aired, I experienced more close passes and at higher speeds than seems to be "normal".  It's back to the same average as before now.

Expect more of this thanks to Channel 5

Fucking Cunts  to do that also the police are shit . This is attempted murder.  if they know who owns the car and the passengers then they charge all the cunts with accessory to murder . If they squeal and give up the pusher ,he gets charged with attempted murder and the driver an accessory  . This is fucking outrageous.  Its not a terrorist attack though  “seriously fuck me “  it’s a bunch of cunts who do not understand how fucking dangerous their cuntish behaviour was.  Stick them in prison for a decent amount of time , they may as well have had a gun , a car ,hands etc are weapons if used to harm it’s all the fucking same . Clamp this shit down now . 

Do not accept a brush off from the police. In my mind, this is terrorism.

It’s highly likely the owner of the vehicle was involved. If so, they can use mobile phone base station handoff records to geo-locate the owners phone with the vehicle movements. It’s likely to have passed some ANPR or CCTV. Also, any other mobile phones whose location correlates with the drivers would help identify the other suspects.

There is still much the police can do if they were willing to expend the effort on it.

Think it's standard in gang related violence for the CPS to struggle to prosecute anyone unless they can deliver hard evidence on who exactly did the deed. 

Grim times though. 

Rear facing camera is obligatory these days, although with cases such as this an AK-47 or Uzi might make people think twice about doing this.

Get well soon and good luck with finding these tuncs

Should not have to, and might not always be enough to identify the driver, but a rear facing camera is now unfortunately as important as pedals on a bicycle.

Wishing Mr Cockrill a full and speedy recovery.

Wishing the miscreants a large number of septic boils on their miserable scrotums.

Should not have to, and might not always be enough to identify the driver, but a rear facing camera is now unfortunately as important as pedals on a bicycle.

Wishing Mr Cockrill a full and speedy recovery.

Wishing the miscreants a large number of septic boils on their miserable scrotums.

This is attempted murder and GBH, surely? What is wrong with people? And with the police, for that matter? I blame the gutter press for demonising
and dehumanising cyclists, this just awful.
Get well soon mate.

This has happened twice in recent years on the same stretch of road in east london/dagenham. Both victims were cyclists in their late 50's commuting to/from work, both suffered serious injuries that took many months to recover from. Nothing. Now accidently run over a ped of the same age and cause the same injuries and see what happens.

There's a psychosis in Britain which appears to be continually stoked-up by the usual suspects. I've lived (and cycled) in Switzerland for 20 years and would be astonished to hear of something like that happening here. This sort of thing is more like it:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/september-23-ballot_swiss-to-vote-on-the-importance-of-cycling/44409042