A driver who hit a cyclist and two pedestrians before his car finally came to a halt straddling a low wall and embedded in a bus has blamed the cyclist for causing him to panic and lose control of his vehicle.
According to the Kingston Guardian, Shibob Li, 49, the manager of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture in Fife Road, drove his BMW out of Fife Road Kingston and attempted to drive the wrong way into Clarence Street.
Paramedics treated two women – one of whom is believed to have been a cyclist – and a man at the scene. One of the women was airlifted to hospital with lower limb injuries. She is reported to be in a stable condition.
A traffic officer said the driver had hit a cyclist at the pedestrian crossing outside Cappadocia restaurant.
He went on to hit the two pedestrians as his car careered down the street.
"Not just my fault"
Mr Li subsequently blamed the cyclist involved for the incident.
He said: “It is really regrettable all this happened. I just wish them to get better quickly and wish them the best. I am very, very sorry. I was panicked and lost control of the car.
“It happened really quickly and I didn’t have any time to think about it. I was shocked and shaking. Of course I regret. But it is not just my fault.
“He started shouting and caused my panic. I was panicked and lost control of the car.
“I think people cycling, they need to pay due attention. There are too many bicycle people on the road.
“They do not really watch the other people. Sometimes they just come quickly.
Wrong way
However, eyewitness Billy Cole, 19, told the Kingston Guardian that the driver of the car came out of Fife Road and drove the wrong way towards the one way system.
The male victim of the crash, Yassar, was a refugee from Syria who had recently arrived in the UK.
His sister-in-law, Dima, said he was being shown round Kingston by her husband.
“They were going to have some Shawarma at Lebanese Valley. He was standing across the street to Cappadocia.
“The BMW came against the traffic and it hit the cyclist.
“My husband and Yassar were walking together. When they saw the car aiming for them my husband jumped and managed to step away but Yassar couldn’t.
“The car hit him from the side and went on and hit a few other people afterwards.
“He hit his head and the car hit him in both legs and his back.”
Dima said the family were “angry and frustrated.” Yassar had fled the conflict in Syria, only to be hit by a car in the UK.
She said: “There was violence, bombs and shelling 24/7 and snipers. It is a war.
“He never got injured but managed to get injured in Kingston.”
Police say no arrests have been made.
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50 thoughts on “Driver blames cyclist for crash after hitting rider, 2 pedestrians, and a bus while driving wrong way up one-way street”
“$#1t drivers say….”
“$#1t drivers say….” :O
Un-*******-believable!
So, a
Un-*******-believable!
So, a car driver can drive like a complete and utter t**t and then blame anyone else! What can the cyclist have done, other than take control of his car some how and drive it into themself and the pedestrians?
People need to start taking responsibility for their incompetence and attitude.
Yours angrily,
Jimbonic
t**t, do you mean twat? also do you mean un-cunting or un-fucking believable?
richteebis wrote:Jimbonic
t**t, do you mean twat? also do you mean un-cunting or un-fucking believable?— Jimbonic
Apologies for the confusion, Mr Biscuit. I did, of course, mean un-fucking-believable and the “t**t” should have read “twat”!
I blame the censors!
“Police say no arrests have
“Police say no arrests have been made.”
John_the_Monkey wrote:”Police
same old same old …. the
same old same old …. the mighty car wins again 🙁
wonder what they’re going to do when fuel costs so much
they can’t potter about like complete imbeciles in their
little tin boxes ????
Oh yeh – that’ll be somebody else’s fault as well ….
therevokid wrote:same old
+1 … your comment reminds me of the entry in this book, succinctly entitled: “Motorists as persecuted group”.
So he is the manager of a
So he is the manager of a shop on the road where it happened – so he would know the Kingston one-way system … driving without due care and attention then surely.
“He started shouting at me”…. probably that he was going to wrong bloody way.
What a d*ck…..
andycoventry wrote:So he is
dick?
I’m making an assumption
I’m making an assumption here, granted, but shouldn’t a Chinese person or someone of Chinese descent be fairly comfortable with the idea of “Bicycle people”.
Someone get him a copy of Katie Melua’s greatest hits….
farrell wrote:Someone get him
It’s mercifully short 😀
Lets not jump to conclusions;
Lets not jump to conclusions; I think there is a chance this guy will get his just desserts, no matter who he blames. Perhaps his driving style is as Alternative as his therapies. Next time align your Chi before setting off.
I MIGHT have a little
I MIGHT have a little sympathy with him if he wasn’t local as the one-way stuff around there is a pain in the arse at times. However, knowing the area as he obviously did, then hitting several people, a wall and a bus and then blaming the cyclist he hit when he was already on the wrong side of the one-way system I’d say the police should have a chat with him sharpish.
atlaz wrote:I MIGHT have a
But it *is* pretty damn obvious there’s a one-way system for anyone entering Kingston. And here’s enough clues at this junction – the big central brick barrier, the blue ‘left only’ signs on the lights, and the ruddy big ‘left only’ sign on the tarmac.
The road he was coming out of is one-way, with a rhs cycle lane in the same direction, and a kerbed cycle lane going the opposite way, between the right-way cycle lane and the pavement. I guess it’s possible the cyclist was on the outermost lane ie going the wrong way, but it makes no odds to his actual actions – sounds like the driver hit the gas instead of the brake and panicked, which isn’t exactly unheard of where elderly drivers are concerned. (Not that 49 is elderly, he’s younger than me..)
If he panics at someone
If he panics at someone shouting at him to stop driving up a street the wrong way, then whatever you do if he’s treating you DON’T shout out in pain at the needles, he’ll likely stick the next one in your eyeballs or bollocks…
nothing changes in this
nothing changes in this cycle-resistant country of ours ….
The phrase “Bicycle People”
The phrase “Bicycle People” has really grown on me today.
I am a bicycle people.
farrell wrote:The phrase
we’ve been having fun with it too 😀
Brilliant, absolutely
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant despite coming from the mouth of an idiot.
shouldn’t it be “woad”?
shouldn’t it be “woad”?
Dave Atkinson wrote:farrell
we’ve been having fun with it too 😀— farrell
This would be perfect with Shakey-hands-man/laughing guy from Banzia/Russell Howard, ha-ha-ha-ha…
We need to get Russ wearing some bike tees on Good News.
Dave Atkinson wrote:farrell
we’ve been having fun with it too 😀— farrell
[img=300×190]http://i.imgur.com/8glmFeG.jpg[/img]
Marvellous that Dave.
I was
Marvellous that Dave.
I was thinking about Sly and the Family Stone and their ‘Everyday People’, but now I think that someone should do something using the Arrested Development version:
http://images.45cat.com/arrested-development-people-everyday-metamorphosis-radio-edit-cooltempo.jpg
(Hopefully) “Arrested Driver – Bicycle People”
Panicked driver is the
Panicked driver is the problem, when behind the wheel of a vehicle one should not be able to get panicked so easily and not so thoroughly that you hit pedestrians, a cyclist, and a bus. Panicking and hitting the gas is all his fault, he should have been driving slow and if startled take the brakes.
I have yet to see a panicked cyclist begin to cycle faster to hit a car, pedestrian, and bus!
Capital Cycles
No arrests ?
Loads of
No arrests ?
Loads of statements from witnesses to get first, then when the evidence is all collected you get him in and he wont have a leg to stand on.
Why rush and make an error ?
stumps wrote:…he wont have
Like one of the pedestrians, it seems. Though I agree with the sentiment. It’ll take at least a day or so to stop saying “WTF? WTMFingF?” before they even start thinking about where the charge sheets are.
Argos74 wrote:stumps
Just shows how much you know, charge sheets are computer generated and have been for years #o
stumps wrote:No arrests ?
Care to explain why in nearly all collisions involving drivers they are arrested, even if they are bailed the same or next day.
Many reported collisions
Many reported collisions involve a fatality, in which case being arrested in highly likely. This doesn’t necessarily result in prosecution, however – even less so conviction.
northstar wrote:stumps
Care to explain why in nearly all collisions involving drivers they are arrested, even if they are bailed the same or next day.— stumps
I assume you mean injury rtc’s ? please be clear before criticising yet again. However, yet again, your wrong about arrests. Unless its a fatal or a very serious rtc the driver is not arrested straightaway and a lot of the time they are brought in later after the statements are taken so all the facts can be put to them. Our force deals with over 500 rtc’s per month and less than 3% result in an arrest
But hey ho why let the facts get in the way of yet another pointless dig at myself.
stumps wrote:northstar
Care to explain why in nearly all collisions involving drivers they are arrested, even if they are bailed the same or next day.— northstar
I assume you mean injury rtc’s ? please be clear before criticising yet again. However, yet again, your wrong about arrests. Unless its a fatal or a very serious rtc the driver is not arrested straightaway and a lot of the time they are brought in later after the statements are taken so all the facts can be put to them. Our force deals with over 500 rtc’s per month and less than 3% result in an arrest
But hey ho why let the facts get in the way of yet another pointless dig at myself.— stumps
when I was involved in an RTC (me in a car stopped at a red light 44tonne truck shunting me 100meters) the cop in attendance told me that he would have arrested the truck driver for careless driving if he (the cop) had seen it but he didn’t want to as without seeing it there was a possibility he (the truck driver) would get let of in court if he employed a slick lawyer. The truck driver did get punished with a “driver improvement course” a slap on the wrist but better than no punishment.
Just to clarify I was put out of work for 14 months while recovering so it could cost me my home. On balance I guess the cop has to make a judgement call on the spot. So at least he was punished.
But as a cyclist I have never felt the police where on my side even when I know I have been totally in the right. When I am in a car they are normally on my side in the event of needing their assistance, so I believe that North Wales Police to be bias this is just my opinion however.
After that big fire in
After that big fire in Birmingham recently this incident will certainly lend impetus to the ongoing campaign to ban chinese wrongturns
I’ll get my coat…
The reason he was getting
The reason he was getting shouted at was because he was going the wrong bloody way!
The fact he hit a cyclist, two pedestrians a bus and a wall suggest he’s easily panicked and not in proper control of his car – should go on some kind of driver training at least!
Didn’t Macca do a song about
Didn’t Macca do a song about that?
If he is local I don’t
If he is local I don’t understand how he went the wrnog way on that one-way system (I use to be semi-local).
If he panics like that when someone is shouting to alert him he is going the wrong way then he shouldn’t be driving.
“If he is local I don’t
“If he is local I don’t understand how he went the wrong way on that one-way system”
because he was local and knew what he was doing – I can think of one 50m section of one way on which I regularly meet delivery trucks coming the wrong way because it saves 3 sets of lights and a lengthy trip around the block
sad that his incompetence injured people – would be good if has to personally pay for all that damage / emergency service time and compensation rather than an insurance co
antigee wrote:
because he was
May I suggest you check out the location on a map/streetview ? Clearly you’ve never seen the Kingston on-way system ! – there’s no-way anyone would dare try that at any time unless they were suicidal or had completely lost the plot. Even in the wee hours of the morning there’s traffic on there, there’s lots of blind corners and it’d be quite easy to do 30-40+ around there when there’s less traffic.
If you look up ‘Fife Road’ – the exit is opposite Kingston station.
At the junction where he turned right there’s very little visibility to the right because of the curve in the road and the buildings. As a pedestrian waiting at the adjacent crossing lights on the inside of the bend (or even the outside), if you choose not to wait you’ve got to be prepared to run across the road if anything appears.
I’ve read of drivers of
I’ve read of drivers of arrested for collisions even if not serious so why wasn’t he?
You were the one who chose to tell everyone on here you are a policeman, i couldn’t care what your job is but keep on telling yourself whatever you will believe to try and divert the topic.
northstar wrote:
You were the
yeah, that *really* shines through in your comments 😕
purplecup wrote:northstar
Sorry, did i ask for your input? You don’t have a clue what you are on about.
northstar wrote:Sorry, did i
sorry, didn’t realise i had to wait to be asked before i commented on here. you’re in charge, then? i’ll bear that in mind next time. 😕
a bit ironic given your recent comment on ‘policing’ the internet, dontchathink? 😉
Show me where I said i was in
Show me where I said i was in charge? I’m just not interested in your sarcasm.
northstar wrote: ……You
Perhaps to give some background and context to the comments he makes on a subject in which he can be considered to be an expert, unless of course you too are a police officer.
jova54 wrote:Perhaps to give
Police are experts on traffic policing? If only that were true!
I just failed to catch on camera a pedalling PCSO wobbling around the road and turning without signalling on Tuesday. Ordinarily, I’d have a quiet word with such a cyclist, but I’m a bit reluctant when it’s the police.
The other thing the local police like to do is relieve congestion by removing bollards and directing cars up a cycle track (which is not a road and never has been) – cue crazy conflict :-/
jova54 wrote:northstar wrote:
It seems the crab mentality is in full swing.
northstar wrote:jova54
It seems the crab mentality is in full swing.— northstar
So you’re not a copper then, thought not.
As a ‘bicycle people’, I
As a ‘bicycle people’, I resent the accusation that I ‘come quickly’!
The victims of this incident
The victims of this incident should press charges and make sure that this guys is charged with dangerous driving.
I don’t care what you think
I don’t care what you think or not, as it seems i’m not the one with a sheep mentality ; ).