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Police tape (CC licensed by freefotouk on Flickr)Police arrest driver after Buckinghamshire hit-and-run
Thames Valley Police has arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of a number of driving offences in connection with a hit and run incident in Iver, Buckinghamshire, on 14 June when a cyclist was struck head on by a Volkswagen Golf.
The incident, which took place on Langley Park Road, left the unnamed male cyclist with neck and shoulder injuries, reports the Slough Express. After the collision, the motorist is said to have driven off along Mansion Lane.
According to police, a man from Slough, Berkshire was arrested last Thursday 31 July on suspicion of having committed six separate offences, and has been bailed until 29 September while investigations continue.
The offences the arrest relates to are suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, being the driver of a vehicle which failed to stop after a road accident, being the driver of a vehicle involved in a road accident who failed to report that accident, using a motor vehicle on a road/public place without third party insurance and fraud by false representation.
On June 14, cyclist Patrick Knetemann was riding on Langley Park Road when a Volkswagen car pulled across the road and hit him, as captured in this helmet cam video:
Knetemann said police officers had told him the number plates on the car that hit him were false.
He told ITV: "He came out of nowhere. The impact was so quick I had no time to stop.
"I hit the windscreen with my shoulder and it shattered straight away - that shows how fast and hard he hit me.
"I think he was turning right to go into the Kwik Fit garage and didn't see me.
"But I had a light on my bike, and I was wearing a bright red helmet.
"After one or two seconds he sped off leaving my there on the pavement."
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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Woohoo! Ups to the Rozzers! They take a lot of flak, but they do a lot of good work!
Well done Thames Valley Police!
Let's hope the CPS proves competent in prosecuting this mouthbreather.
"The offences the arrest relates to are suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, being the driver of a vehicle which failed to stop after a road accident, being the driver of a vehicle involved in a road accident who failed to report that accident, using a motor vehicle on a road/public place without third party insurance and fraud by false representation."
So the obvious thing to do is to bail him until November and just cross fingers he doesn't drive in the mean time?
The law stinks, should have been charged with attempted murder or GBH, or anything far more serious. This wasn't an accident, and the moron behind the wheel deserves a lot more than he will get!
Were the law not a total ass, the Polis would have the power to impound his vehicle pending the case coming to court
this is where we need to copy the americans by changing the law to make a motor vehicle admissible as a weapon,so you can charge idiots like this with assault with a deadly weapon,and other appropriate charges and impound their vehicles as evidence.
We dont possess magic wands and can only keep someone in custody for 24 hours before we have to apply for extensions, the enquiries can take much longer than 24hrs hence the bail date.
But like the thousands of people who drive without licences, insurance and disqualified its impossible to stop them from driving if they want to.
This is great news but I have a horrible feeling that unless the prosecuting legal team can enhance the video well enough to show the accused clearly then I suspect they have a very simple defense which would make guilty verdict unlikely.
It's an uninsured vehicle, they do have the authority to impound it on that basis alone.
I assume this is police bail, but if it went to the mags, wouldn't they remand people in custody likely to reoffend - if it were, say, domestic violence or the like?
I was surprised to see this recently http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-28552876 . If they can do this character for murder for deliberately running someone over then why can't they do someone for attempted murder for attempting to run someone over? OK mens rea and all that but they managed to prove it in this case.
Here's hoping for a result that'll send a big loud message out to those who drive cars, and drive them dangerously.
This wasn't an accident.
The driver didn't see the cyclist and was therefore driving without due care and attention, or the driver did see the cyclist and continued diving dangerously.
Which one was it?
I hope that Patrick will fully recover soon and that the driver gets what he deserves. If I'm right, Patrick Knetemann's lineage is top level, assuming that is his real surname. Gerrie Knetemann was my absolute idol back when......he and Jan Raas just gobbled up the opposition in all the major classics. Can Patrick be the son and heir of Gerrie?
Don't forget this was a fellow motorist in the eye of the jury and therefore worth more than just a mire cyclist.
I'm gkad the cops got stuck in and caught this dangerous driver. But I wonder if the courts will keep up the goid work! Life time driving ban would be a good start.
Watch the CPS #uck it all up. Driver will get small fine, perhaps another ban for a few months that he'll ignore and some kind of community service where he'll learn nothing and do very little as no-one bothers to check they're actually doing anything.
The little cherub will claim he isn't responsible for any of it as he thought he was insured, didn't realise he'd hit anyone, thought his current driving ban had expired, didn't know he had to report the collision (not that he knew about it) and besides the cyclist doesn't pay to use the roads so he shouldn't have been there anyway.
Disinterested fart in the magistrates court will lap it up in between dealing with two credit card cases brought by a dodgy debt collection company and accepts the pathetic excuse that the poor motorist didn't set out to hurt anyone so must have been 'a temporary lapse in concentration'...ergo the driver escapes all responsibility.
Police charge victim with wasting police time, driver successfully sues victim for damage to vehicle he doesn't even own, court awards adverse costs against victim for having the audacity to complain about being hit.
All proof of the government's commitment to getting people on bikes of course. I think the time has come for government simply to be honest and just admit they don't give a $hit about anyone not in a car.That I could deal with, this continued failure to protect whilst insisting they care is getting extremely dull.
They found the fucker.
This time it's on video, its shocking, the cyclist can in no way be claimed to be at any fault.
If the court mess this one up, it will be the case that demands sentencing laws get changed.
Why wasn't he remanded if he has committed other offences? Surely he is a danger to the public driving like that, there is a high risk of him reoffending or absconding. Madness to give him bail.
And if he ever does get to appear in court and is actually convicted he might get 150 hours community service or an £80 fine, 3 penalty points and have to pay a £20 victim surcharge. However he may well have a good defence such as he thought he had hit a (just select the correct body) 1) dog, 2) deer, 3) horse or swerved across the road to avoid the same, meaning he gets off, or he may simply claim SMIDSY which is a driver's trump all card, "the sun was in my eyes m'Lud" and he walks free …………. to drive home.
There is a high probability that the CPS given their form will fuck the case up and he gets off or is convicted of a much lesser offence.
Nice to see some action taken.
It may be the vid but anyone else notice how hard it is to see the indicator flashing. I could only tell during the slow motion bit and when the camera was very close?
Are you being serious? Attempted murder?! How do you know it wasn't an accident? You think he did it deliberately do you? Muppet!
@AyBee, it wasn't an accident.
CPS - Crown Prosecution Service or as it's also known the Criminal Protection Scheme!
Because after an accident you stop, apologise if appropriate, make sure the person is OK or if not summon an ambulance if appropriate, exchange details, let the person know (if you can) that you will do what you can to assist in the recovery of compensation, give information to Police, be breathalysed... all that stuff that this c**t did not bother to do.
Having 'done a runner' trying to claim it was an accident should really seem like a sick joke. If it was not an accident? Then what?
He will plead guilty and get £75 fine and a community order and £5 victim costs.
It's not 'attempted murder'. Ridiculous statement to make.
He didn't stop because he wasn't insured, car was on false plates and he didn't want to get caught (I'm not condoning this in any way). The opposite of accident implies he did it deliberately - is that what you genuinely think? If so, my first statement stands.
So when someone drives a car without looking where they are going what do you call it? Why is it OK to risk other peoples lives on the road?
Either he did it deliberately; or he's so incompetent, blind or both that he shouldn't be allowed near a lawnmower, let alone a car. Either way he should never be driving again.
Either he did it deliberately; or he's so incompetent, blind or both that he shouldn't be allowed near a lawnmower, let alone a car. Either way he should never be driving again.
"Accident" suggests a random, unavoidable, event. Driving without looking is neither random nor unavoidable. At very best he either did something deliberately dangerous, or he is so brainless that his continuing to be able to breathe is surprising.
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