Twit and run girl EmmaWay 20 breaks her silence to say sorry (sort of)

The Government should be composed entirely of cyclists!

Well it seems Emma Way is beating the PR trail to escape Pariahville.

I think the police and her employer have taken appropriate action in this matter.

I'm not sure she deserves to lose her job - but this depends on what she understands and has learned from her experience.

As some have suggested, she may have been advised to contain her apology to not openly accept culpability, but her apology does disappoint me.

As other point out, it reminds me of Armstrong's pale imitation of an apology, which is really "I'm sorry that I got found out" rather than "I realise my actions were wrong". This should be the benchmark for her, and her employers.

Reaching out to the cyclist personally would be an important starting point. Perhaps Mr Hockley can go on air/TV and make this point, because it will truly be lost by a media focused on the next big news event (I'm sure after Woolwich it will be buried pretty quickly).

The only lesson she's learnt is not to use Twitter.

If someone had boasted about this in a pub to friends, it would have gone nowhere. The difference here is just that some younger people appear to view Twitter as the equivalent of chatting to friends in the pub.

All we can hope for is that this very publicly highlights just how leniently the law treats drivers.

I don't really think its a "driver vs cyclists" thing (it could have been a pedestrian or car she hit), its just that the law tends to view driving badly as just "one of those things" that would should all put up with.

Perhaps because so many of the jury (and the judges themselves) can easily imagine themselves making the same mistakes, and thus feel empathy for the driver?

"I didn't think he'd come off his bike" - she must have been amazed. After all, it's only c. 1 ton of car hitting 85 odd kilos of bike and rider. Who'd have thought?

i hope this issue doesn't just "blow over" an example needs to be made of reckless drivers who gamble not only with their lives, but the lives of other road users as well. the law NEEDS to flex its muscles to show that this is a serious offence to deter others from being so daft and ignorant.

notable mention goes to all the social networks that get blown out of "precaution"

After seeing the interview it's clear that she was only apologising, as many have mentioned, for using Twitter - not the worst of her recent actions but perhaps one of the most foolish, as it 'made her look bad'. A la Mr Lance Armstrong - 'I'm sorry for myself for being stupid enough to get caught, but really have no compassion for anybody who may have been affected by my actions'.

Previous tweets should be taken into consideration when the courts (if it gets that far - who knows - given past form she's frankly unlikely even to get a single point/fine, which is another debate) are deciding what to do with her. Her driving licence should DEFINITELY be revoked - how can she POSSIBLY be allowed to continue driving when there is a stack of evidence, provided by her herself, of her appalling attitude to road use and other road users?! Whether she should lose her job is only for her employers to decide and really outside the context of this particular offence (although it is easy to understand why people have been clamouring for that outcome) but I wouldn't want anybody with that sort of contempt for others, arrogance, stupidity and selfishness working with me.

An absolutely miniscule shred of respect for her for coming out into the public eye, although to be honest all she did was dig herself into a deeper hole, with steeper edges, and reveal her total lack of giving a sh*t. I'm sure it speaks volumes about something but this post is getting very long already...

Indeed the eye at the camera at the end says it all you can see the cogs whirring ‘Can I go now I have to go and drive my car like a complete twat and rundown every #bloodypeasant in my way’.

I’m sure there is a joke in there somewhere about accountants and six fingered Norfolkians

"I didn't even feel him touch my car, apart from when his handle bar donked the wing mirror". That is admission that there was a collision, and then she left the scene.
She then goes on to say if "If I knew he was hurt i wouldn't have driven off" - Why didn't she stop and check then? She knew she hit him and then tweeted about it.
The fact that she only apologised about the tweet and the interviewer did a poor attempt to her to say something about the victim shows contempt and arrogance all too common these days.

I'm not sure she deserves to lose her job - but this depends on what she understands and has learned from her experience.

She's a trainee accountant so any conviction means she'll struggle to qualify. Additionally, a lot of contracts now have clauses about bringing disrepute to the company so she is likely to fall afoul of that. If the firm of accountants wants to put an image of being upstanding and law abiding forward, having a trainee who crashes into people, tweets because she finds it funny and then tells lies and is disingenuous about it is hardly helping.

Unfortunately for her there are consequences to actions. She's got to live with hers.

I've just watched the interview footage. Why did she bother? She is clearly more concerned about the personal impact of her behavior than anything else. The apology was just vacuous. And the 'I'm a cyclist too..' comment?

However what I'm more interested in is what happens with the Police and CPS. This is going to be a very public test of the legal system with respect to the sort of road traffic incident involving a cyclist they can normally brush under the carpet quite easily.

No doubt road.cc will be following this closely.

'kin hell.
what a stupid, stupid girl.

Toby Hockley needs to press charges to make an example of her. Its been so publicised, if nothing happens it'll make it even easier for car-drivers to run over cyclists with no fear of the law.

As for the "I'm a cyclist myself" comment. No you aren't, not saying things like "#bloodycyclists"
What you mean is "I know how to ride a bike". There's an enormous difference.

Personally, I have not one shred of sympathy of any sort for this idiot child - only her parents.

My dearest wish is that the punishment will be severe enough to fit the crime and the outrage it has caused ... but of course we all know it won't be.

For us, as cyclists ... when does it ... ever?

10 years - not even life - for murdering two happy tandem riders...

£85 and 200 hours for killing a bike mechanic ...

How much more has to be posted before the law makers sit up and listen?????

Blimey, the way some of you lot go on on here you'd think you had never been young yourselves.

Yes, she is far from convincing or eloquent in her apology, and of course her solicitor (if he's worth daddy's money) will have advised her not to admit to anything. But come on, she's a young girl who made a mistake and I can only imagine the levels of abuse she is being subjected to if these comments are anything to go by.

Websites like road.cc are right to highlight this case on behalf of the battle to ensure our roads are safer for cyclists. And yes, she should be charged with her motoring offences; Hopefully she will serve as an example to other young drivers.

But please, cast your mind back to when you were 21 - did you never say/do anything stupid? I know I did so thank god Twitter & vicious internet forums weren't so prevalent back then.

Lay off the vitriol, eh?

Yesterday someone was jailed for 10 years for the same hit & run action. Sadly two cyclists died in that case, this could have so easily ended the same way.

It is telling that she is more upset about her stupidity in tweeting about her actions (and the effect it has had), rather than for the actions themselves.

I saw the interview and *figuratively* thought she has a face with an attitude that makes you want to punch it and keep on punching... She was trophy hunting, on a damage limitation exercise and being an ice cold biatch. She has no sincerity and doesn't give a flying fook about the cyclist that could have been maimed or killed by her car and her driving. As others have said she is gutted she made the tweet and thats it. Its not just that though, she moans about other drivers when she has just what 3 or 4 years driving experience tops yet she photographs other cars on her smartphone and tweets about them... while she is driving, and then another one at 95mph.... She needs 3 year ban and big fine for what she has done. Then hopefully she'll lose her job and then she might just realise that she can't go around being the type of horrible, ignorant and arrogant person she is. Seriously, a firm line needs taking when vulnerable road users become victims and it has to send out the right message. If it was me I'd send her to prison for 14 days for what she has done, even if she hadn't tweeted it.

BBC interview...this may have been raised already...Im rapidly running out of patience with the platfrom the BBC is giving...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22636230

I'm frankly amazed at some of the comments here. It's public knowledge who her employer is - they would have had no choice but to suspend her in the circumstances.

I'd like to think she'll be charged - but I doubt it'll happen. I'd also like to think that she will be sacked for lying to the media - but that's not likely to happen either.

That was a disgusting interview on BBC, all about feeling sorry for her that her innocent tweet got her so much unwanted attention, I mean they have someone who hit and run and they're sympathising with her. More talk about her tweet than her crime. Granted, may be due to legal stuff but in that case hold off till you can put the screw to her.

Unless witnesses come forward it's her word against his. We know how that ends.

What Toby Hockley said:

http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2013-05-23/cyclist-welcomes-apology/

Seems a decent bloke and very measured in his response, even when pressed by the journalist (pressed even harder than Emma was IMHO).

Just seen her interview and for me her body language (arms crossed) is one of total disregard..she clearly feels no sorrow for what she did.

Pack of lies and crocodile tears for the camera and as for dragging in the pinstripe suited lawer to hold her hand...load of tosh

You know... I was starting to feel sorry for this girl. People that age are often over-confident on the road and make stupid mistakes - and while she needs to be punished, I've no wish for her to have her life ruined.

But that interview seems half-hearted, self-centred and had the tone of an Apprentice contestant in the boardroom trying not to get fired.

If she'd offered a full and sincere apology and maybe done some work to raise awareness of how dangerous driving can put cyclists' lives at risk, I'd be prepared to say we should all forgive her and move on. But now I just think throw the book at her.

The contrast between Emma Way's interview and Toby Hockley's is astounding. She is still not apologising in the slightest for actually hitting the guy, just for the tweeting, and he is being incredibly restrained and reasonable in his assessment of the whole thing. Their attitudes are universes apart.

I think Ms Way is saying she was lying earlier, when using phrase "Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier.." but she's now definitely not now lying in saying just the opposite.

Its sounds like she's admitting she's no credibility at all.

Very sensible intelligent chap. people who cycle tend to be in my experience. An interesting juxtaposition here between him and her.