Violent video assault goes viral

Nice one, that's great news

thanks rbx we're on it - Simon just called to tell us too

This looks hopeful. Lets hope it is the 'Bexley Brute' and he is charged.

Brilliant news. Innocent until proven of course.....

Just saw this:

"Man arrested over cyclist road rage attack in Bexley"

over here:

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/9139998.UPDATE__Man_arrested_over_cycl...

If it's true, great to finally see some action being taken!

Good to see this generated so much coverage, hopefully leading to the arrest of the driver and passenger.
Maybe this also might embarrass the Police into taking this kind of thing more seriously and not just trying to fob off the victim.

On the not crediting where they got the story from I wasn't surprised. The Mail were lifting stories from the Guido Fawkes blog and printing them without credit a few months back.

Unless I am told any different the silence from the Transport Minister/local MP/Councillors and even CTC is deafening. This is unfortunately not an isolated incident but has received national printed press coverage largely due to Roadcc and Youtube. We need to continue to highlight these idiotic and frightening peoples actions if the attitude of the public at large is to change. I get the feeling the average Sun reader will probably feel the thug in the car had some justification because people who wear lycra and ride a bike are, well a bit weird. Why not pay £1.40 at the pump and drive to the shops/school/work and back each day. Sadly the Government's decision to cull Cycling England and the wider lack of coordinated non-car travel networks is indicative of their apathy/opposition to cyclists (I don't count Dave as a cyclist)

@SimpleSimon - I have a feeling that only applies to road traffic offences rather than, for example, an assault outside of the vehicle, the idea being that you are liable for the use of your car unless it was stolen or you identify who it was.

But surely with the widespread coverage (and the nice clear footage) it cant be long until someone identifies this idiot?

Got to say though, the Sun did a good job of capturing those stills from the video, if he can't be identified from them…

it is amazing at how lax the police are, I wonder what kind of crime needs to be committed before they actually do their job. They are too busy taking media backhanders and whining about their bloated final salary pensions.

Apparently:
. If an allegation is made against the driver of the vehicle, the Police have an obligation to serve a Notice of Intended Prosecution on the registered keeper. By doing so, they then shift the burden of identification to the keeper. Consequently, if you make an allegation against the driver of the vehicle, the Police should then force the registered keeper to identify the driver. If, for whatever reason, he is unable to do so, they can prosecute the registered keeper for failing to identify which would result in 6 penalty points and a fine up to £1,000. You should certainly be applying pressure to the Police to prosecute the registered keeper as normally, this would result in the person “recalling”
who they lent the vehicle to. Indeed, you may also wish to suggest to the Police that as the registered keeper does not know who was driving, how can they prove that that person was insured? If they cannot, the registered keeper can also be prosecuted for allowing an uninsured driver to use the vehicle. Again, that could result in penalty points and a fine so, again, it is likely that those threats will result in the keeper recalling the identity of the person who was driving.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3693420/Road-rage-thug-hits-cy...

It's surely particularly apposite with the current furore that we should have so little difficulty in finding examples of such poor journalistic etiquette. But then, I reckon road.cc hacked the phones of the original poster

What do you expect from journalists? Whilst there are exceptions in any profession, as a group they generally rank alongside politicians and estate agents for dishonesty.

That's normal for BBC. Moan at them and they'll probably attribute it.