Police are looking into a moped rider who attacked a cyclist in London this week, attempting to kick him off his bike for taking the lane.
Chi Yong La was riding on New Kent Road between his job as a systems engineer for publisher Condé Nast and his home in Greenwich.
Conditions were very wet and slippery and the road is notoriously badly potholed so Chi was following Transport for London advice and taking the middle of the lane.
At about 6:45pm, a man on a moped rode up on Chi’s left “shouting something about ‘is the middle of the road yours…’” Chi said on the YouTube video of the incident. (The time stamp on his cam is an hour out, he says.)
When Chi pointed out the potholes and invited the motorcyclist to pass him properly, on the right, the man attempted to kick him as he pulled away.
Chi told the Metro website: “I was trying to cycle in the middle of my lane because that’s what I’ve been advised when it’s wet and there are potholes.
“The motorcyclist came up beside me and accused me of owning the middle of the lane. I said he could overtake on the right.
“But he suddenly whipped past and kicked out at me – he kicked my front wheel but luckily I managed to cling on.
“It was a close call but very worrying. I hope he can be traced.”
Chi contacted road.cc this weekend to telll us he'd filed a police report under the category of "Road Traffic Collision/Accident". He accompanied his report with the video below.
The police have forwarded the report to the transport department for further investigation.
"I hope they at least have a word with him," he said.
The incident left him unsurprisingly rattled. "I was really shaken up," he said. "I was really holding on for dear life, making sure I didn't topple over."
Shortly after the incident, another rider caught Chi. "The cyclist behind me pulled up [with me]," he said. "I think he was even more rattled than me."
63 thoughts on “UPDATE: Police looking into moped rider caught on cam trying to kick London cyclist”
I ride this bit of road every
I ride this bit of road every day and it’s a nightmare. Fast traffic and lots of bus stops and parked cars forcing everything into one (the right hand) lane. It’s a terrible road surface too, so this guy was riding exactly as he should have been to avoid potholes, drains etc and stop traffic that’s trying to undertake the cars in the right lane from pushing you into the curb or cutting you off – i.e. taking the lane. Did that guy on the moped sound like a certain well-known Top Gear presenter…?
Easy to enough trace. Surely?
Easy to enough trace. Surely?
Shocking and depressing
Shocking and depressing behaviour. What is wrong with some people that they would endanger someone’s life like this?
I motorcycle and cycle to
I motorcycle and cycle to work in London in almost equal measure, and it disgusts me how some people ride their motorbikes. It’s not difficult to overtake safely on a motorbike, so there is no reason to make a meal of it or undertake like this idiot does.
The trouble is, it is quite easy to get a licence to ride a moped or 125cc motorbike. Some people with driving licences obtained at certain times and places can hop onto a 125cc bike with no further training. You’d think they’d at least have some empathy for fellow vulnerable road users, if nothing else.
Bloody hell! If that kick had
Bloody hell! If that kick had brought him off the bike in that busy traffic it could have been very serious indeed. Wonder what charge is appropriate. Waiting to see how Police handle it – looks like an open and shut case.
qwerky wrote:Bloody hell! If
‘Attempted bl00dy murder’ would be appropriate but there’s fat chance. There even no chance of Plod going around and feeling his collar, never mind charging him.
God, it’s just so depressing,
God, it’s just so depressing, isn’t it?
Here’s hoping there’s a positive follow up.
Video evidence and a record
Video evidence and a record of the licence plate, surely he’ll be getting arrested in the next day or so ? Surely ?
And seconds later the lorry
And seconds later the lorry tries to take him out. Someone’s got it in for him.
Good luck to him. He was
Good luck to him. He was doing everything right and the moped madman everything wrong.
Met Police will want to see
Met Police will want to see this so hopefully prior to sending it in to here he’s already gone to them. Video record of the incident so far more chance of it being taken up tge police even gave an online method of submitting videos for evidence. Good luck to him. Shocking behaviour by the other road user involved.
I do hope the police pick him
I do hope the police pick him up.
From the floor.
After someones give him a taste of his own medicine.
Unfortunately it seems the
Unfortunately it seems the Met is very disparaging of video evidence. I’d love to be surprised, but there is enough evidence or their stated opinion on this topic and anecdotal stories to suggest it’ll be dropped due to lack of evidence.
Yes, the logic escapes me.
This is both dangerous driving and attempted assault in a situation where the consequences are readily understood to be potentially deadly.
The moped rider should be prosecuted, and should see jail time for this due to the clear intent to cause harm.
jacknorell
Yes, the Met seem to pick and choose video evidence as it suits them. They will, for instance, choose to use all sorts of low quality CCTV video to bolster various criminal case evidence yet all too frequently dismiss cyclist video of (quite frequently) better quality.
One comes to the conclusion that most of them don’t give a flying fig about motorised vehicles terrorising cyclists or, to be honest, just about anybody else. Oh, unless it’s a Police Officer who is the one being terrorised. The car is king and, as most Met Police officers would’t be seen dread on a bicycle and, as they drive (and have much more sympathy with the drivers of) cars, they’re really not that bothered about turning their attention towards that sizeable group of people who appear to break the law with impunity on a massive scale. By that I am, of course, referring to the legions of motorists who regularly get away with illegal behaviour – with very little censure from the authorities. Yes, they (the put-upon motorists) mutter and curse about the “iniquities” of speed cameras but, in reality you can kill someone using a car as your weapon of choice and get away with a non-custodial sentence. This largely explains the major problem we have with cyclists in London (and elsewhere) experiencing all sorts of antagonistic behaviour from motorists on a continuing basis about which almost nothing is done. Motorists know this and act accordingly. This, unfortunately, is a facet of our, arguably, screwed up society.
Jeremy Clarkson recently tweeted a picture of a cyclist which he’d taken on his phone whilst driving. Clearly, this was completely illegal – not the taking of the photo but the fact he did so whilst driving several tons of ludicrous 4×4 on a public highway. I shan’t be holding my breath waiting for the Police to prosecute his quite obvious law breaking.
Ditto this case. I’d love to be proved wrong but………..
Someone in the comments on
Someone in the comments on youtube has reported the same moped ride doing a similar thing on 11th December!
I’m not sure I see that many
I’m not sure I see that many potholes and the like. I don’t condone what the moped rider did for one second (undertaking is bad enough). But you are less likely to get the aggression of other road users if you ride with consideration (for the point of self-preservation it is better not to nark off other people whatever you’re doing – you wouldn’t practise the trumpet in a crowded bar!?)
I’m not saying you have to stick your wheel in a hole the size of Brighton riding on the left, but if you are taking the lane it has to be for a purpose. He even overtakes another cyclist who is riding on the left without going around him. Who knows how many vehicles there were behind him – again it doesn’t excuse the moped driver, but it is common sense not to block a lane.
Bring back the birch!
Bring back the birch!
festival wrote:Bring back the
no, the stocks… stick them in the stocks in the middle of town on a Saturday afternoon and leave plenty of over ripe vegetables for the public to hurl at them…
Colin Peyresourde wrote:I’m
I get what you’re saying, and cyclists who make a point of riding in the centre of a lane at a slow pace, just because they’re entitled to do so, do annoy me, but I don’t think it’s fair to insinuate that this guy was doing that. You can see by his pace relative to the traffic on the right that he’s merely looking after himself in a sensible, legal way. That nob-end of a moped rider is peeved because he wants the inside lane as his own personal undertaking lane.
I ride Brixton Road at night and it’s much the same deal: the two or three feet next to the curb are littered with potholes, drain covers and general detritus. Mostly I stick within that area, as I don’t want to antagonise the not-very-bright motorists who frequent that stretch, but in doing so I often experience some really dangerous overtakes and have to weave in and out a fair bit. You just can’t win.
Cyclists’ safety is a hot topic these days and while the powers are discussing and discussing what should be done I don’t think it would be a bad idea to start showing some old-school-style public information ads. There’s a lot of ignorance among road users about where cyclists are entitled to ride, and how it is not the motorist’s right to overtake if it is not safe to do so. Equally, to keep things balanced, ads telling cyclists how best to keep themselves safe could be offered.
Anyway, I hope the moped riding tosspot gets his comeuppance.
Jonny_Trousers wrote:Colin
Hear, hear about Brixton Road. We probably pass each other at times. And yes, there is a lot of ignorance amongst drivers as to what cyclists are entitled to do and how drivers should overtake. I was nearly taken out by a muppet in a van earlier this week, who cut in front of me after overtaking me on Dulwich Road. There was no need for the overtake as there was a massive queue of vehicles at the junction at Herne Hill. All he did was get to the end of the queue a bit earlier.
Too many drivers don’t appreciate that it’s the queues at junctions that lengthen their journey from point A to B, not the momentary slowing down while waiting to pass a cyclist. Twerps like Jeremy Clarkson do nothing for road safety overall.
Colin Peyresourde wrote:I’m
Spot on.
Incorrect – this week the
Incorrect – this week the roads are full of water. Any standing water implies a pothole – otherwise it wouldn’t be there. And I NEVER cycle right next to the pavement – pedestrians reading smartphones are the bane of my life as they wander into the road without looking.
There are two lanes here, and they didn’t look full. I understand the need to be very cautious when the traffic is fairly solid, but he had plenty of space to pass, both on the right and in the other lane.
I would have shown him the value of his indicators and their use in overtaking after a bit of a chase if I had the opportunity.
:S
The cyclist was doing what
The cyclist was doing what any smart and properly trained cyclist would do. It is necessary to take the lane in London, particularly as the roadsides are littered with debris and potholed.
The scooter rider has a screw loose.
The truck driver could have indicated earlier and this wasn’t great driving, but didn’t deliberately try to take the cyclist out.
I agree with the other comment about the dangers caused to others by poorly trained scooter riders. The number of smashed mopeds I see by the roadside suggests that these people figure highly in the crash statistics also.
It’s contagious
A couple of
It’s contagious 🙁
A couple of tweets by @Normally_Human this morning:
Before Christmas I had an altercation with the driver of a red van (DC10 TCZ) because I briefly ‘took the lane’ approaching a mini-roundabout. There’s a bollard on the approach and it gets tight. We were in a line of traffic that was doing 15mph at the most. The twat forced past, clipping me with his wing mirror, then stopped dead in the road and shouting at me. A mile or so later on he was waiting in a lay-by. Shortly after I rode by he accelerated hard and passed me as close as he could at 35-40mph, even though the road is particularly wide at this point. Didn’t bother going to the police, they would just treat my complaint with contempt and file it in the bin. But I bet they would be interested if I took his wing mirror off with a hammer.
Report it. You have the
Report it. You have the plate. If this person is then involved in an accident or a incident with another cyclist this will be on file and used as additional evidence to display to the court this individuals morals and conduct.
Potholes and arseholes.
Potholes and arseholes.
If the plate cannot be
If the plate cannot be tracked down on his recording then maybe the police should check the CCTV on this street? In my mind that was assault and should be treated as such by the police.
Problem is you’re pretty
Problem is you’re pretty exposed on a bike. Only takes one idiot and the next thing you know you’re in the back of an ambulance or worse.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how folk in motorised transport think its totally ok to cut up, abuse, shove, kick cyclists – I mean do we suddenly not become human beings or something when we get on a bike?
Given the annual road deaths and huge numbers of serious injuries I just can’t work out why this kind of thing isn’t taken seriously by the police/government. X(
There is no excuse for not
There is no excuse for not reporting theses incidents particularly when you have a registration number. The individual may have a history of violence/threatening behaviour; you could be saving another cyclist from injury or worse!
Legin wrote:There is no
I’ve reported 20+ incidents to roadsafe but all they will do is write a letter to the driver asking them not to do it again – at the most, seems like 19/20 times they may have done nothing at all. I give up, but still record journeys in case of serious accident.
As for visiting my local police station, they seem to be closed most of the week, and they only seem to be open when I am at work. Even if I did visit, they would most likely say video evidence is not enough and still do nothing.
mental note to check any
mental note to check any parked moped number plates in that area and slash tyres accordingly……
Such a shame, the truck
Such a shame, the truck almost took the scooterarse out. Damn.
My (thus far) one experience
My (thus far) one experience of trying to use video evidence to have someone’s bad roadcraft followed up has left me with no confidence in the Met’s willingness to accept it.
After being buzzed – deliberately – by a significantly faster moving motorbike (me, approx. 25mph, him, based on the video footage, approx. 50mph, in a 30 zone) at a distance of less than 1 foot (and then his subsequently using a (rare) no-motorbikes bus lane and stopping in an ASZ), I was told that my video showed nothing illegal and the person responding proceeded to instead critique my road position, and even an attempt to turn it around in some ‘tu quoque’ defence by suggesting that I’d passed very close to another cyclist so how could I reasonably complain about the motorbike.
So forgive me for thinking that the Met will only get involved here because of the publicity it has received, not because anyone there actually thinking that it’s worth following up on.
You have a decent offence of
You have a decent offence of Causing Danger to Road Users there, which is punishable by a term of imprisonment (yes it covers cycles). I’d like to see the Police follow this up. Despite what you think about the cyclists position in the road this could have ended horribly and tragically and the Old Bill need to get this guy and prosecute.
I do personally feel he was a bit wide in my humble opinion, even with the wet surface and the potholes, regardless of the advice of “taking the road” – some guys take it to extremes. What weakens his reasoning for taking the road is the cyclist victim passsing of another (albeit slower) cyclist who is next to the kerb without apparent issue or problem.
Anyway, thats not to detract from the point in question; clear case of causing danger with good evidence. No reason for the Police NOT to follow it up and get that knob into a court room.
Critchio wrote:You have a
Lifetime ban from driving would be a more suitable punishment. The points/suspensions consequences involved in dangerous driving cases (not just ones involving cyclists but also where victims are other motorists or pedestrians) can be bizarrely lenient, even where death is caused.
You can argue the toss about the use of prison in these cases as a deterrent, a punitive measure etc. but the is no question that this sort of criminal should, if convicted, never be allowed on the road again as an issue of public safety.
Ghedebrav wrote:Critchio
You are correct; Causing Danger and Dangerous Riding. That takes care of the ban 🙂
probably find out it is a
probably find out it is a wannabe cabbie!
I’m going to play devil’s
I’m going to play devil’s advocate here… firstly I’m glad nobody got hurt and I understand this guy probably didn’t start this altercation (although we don’t know), but riders with GoPros who act all haughty when observing substandard driving and shout out car / moped registration numbers for their youtube followers…. well I find them pretty annoying and embarrassing too, even as a fellow cyclist. To then post your video on youtube to whip up the baying mob and potentially not show the police, well it just doesn’t sound very constructive to me.
Better would be to concentrate on activating your core so your upper body doesn’t waggle around so much, rather than posting this to enthusiast websites, which just invites comments like one of the above, offering to slash the tyres of the moped if it can be found; it all just escalates the us vs them mentality which is really unhelpful.
Whirlio wrote:I’m going to
I guess you missed the bit where the moped rider tried to kick the lad off his moving bike, then?
I agree with your sentiment in general. It just doesn’t fairly apply here.
Hi Whirlio
I just wanted to
Hi Whirlio
I just wanted to clarify a few things as I know your comment is based on some assumptions.
Chi is actually a good friend of mine and it was actually me who asked road.cc to publish the story to spread the word, obviously with Chi’s consent.
Firstly Chi uploaded the video to youtube not because he has a big following of fans but because he uses a android and wanted to share this awful commute home with his friends and fellow cyclist such as myself. Google + uses youtube as a way to share video.
Chi chooses to cycle with a camera as he has had many incidents of people running across his path whilst on the way to work (his commute includes navigating down whitehall Regent street and Soho. He wanted to make sure if anything serious happened to him or a pedestrian he would have proof of the incident instead of being blamed point blank.
n such weather conditions he did not known if he would be able to capture the plate on video so he actually calls out the number plate as he knows he wont be able to remember it during the shock of almost being kicked of his bike, its actually called fast thinking. Sure he could have edited or bleeped it out, but again it was suppose to be for his friends to view.
And lastly, yes the video was actually sent to the police, it went to Metro after submitting as evidence to the police.
I hope this paints a better picture of what actually happened and that he is not doing this for thumbs up on his youtube video.
It the moped rider carries on
It the moped rider carries on like that he will end up dead of disabled. Fool.
Whirlio wrote:Better would be
Kelcha was too polite to say it, but I’m not: In the context of the rest of your comment, have you any idea how much of an ar5ehole that statement makes you look?
I’m guessing you’re not aware of how much a camera (as opposed to your own eyes and brain, which are pretty good at tuning it out) can exaggerate upper body movement. Having seen a few other videos where it’s next to impossible to figure out what’s going on from the rocking and wobbling, I’d say this guy’s actually pretty solid*. And anyway, why even bring it up as a point in your argument here except to show the world what an elitist ar5e you can be?
* Not as good as me of course, cos like you I’m perfect and speed purposefully through the air with nary a fraction of a wobble, even when I’m hungry and knackered after a day’s work and it’s pissing with rain and the traffic noise is making my head burst and I’m dodging potholes and cursing the council and I just want to get home and eat my dinner and see my missus and some fanny on a moped has pulled up, had a go and tried to kick me off my bike. Solid as a rock me.
seven wrote:Whirlio
You’re saying what many of us are thinking.
There’s a distinct whiff of victim blaming in most of these sorts of comments. If I’m feeling charitable then I assume that the poster is trying to reassure themself that “it couldn’t happen to me because I $insert-magic-here”. If I’m feeling grumpy then I suspect that the poster is lacking in intelligence or morals.
I’ve got to say that “activating your core” is a good one, must be something that people do after aligning their chakras.
Psychopath? This person would
Psychopath? This person would try and punch you at a buffet if you got between him and his food. Unfortunately the world is full of them. As I discussed recently on my blog (plug ahoy!): More cycle paths or fewer psychopaths?
Quote:There’s a distinct
+1
What some people don’t seem to realise I that no matter whether the cyclist is right or wrong to be in that position on the road, attempting to knock them off is NEVER right. I’m not going to state my opinion based on 30 seconds of video – maybe he’s looking to move into the right lane after the lorry has passed, maybe there was a whole row of potholes a few seconds earlier. Who knows or cares?!
If someone was ambling right down the middle of the supermarket aisle, would you kick them into the tinned beans just to get past? Why is it any different on the road? There shouldn’t be any debate about whether the cyclist was in the right or not. Or indeed whether he’s “activated his core”…
:O
From now on whenever I get
From now on whenever I get out the saddle I will shout ‘CORE ACTIVATED!’.
pants wrote:From now on
=))
shortly after that will you deploy the flux capacitor..and attempt 88mph…
On another note, I’ve been
On another note, I’ve been waiting for an update for the moped rider to be caught, but nothing so far. Hopefully the poo-lice will actually do something with the number plate in full view. That road is a part of my commute everyday.
pants wrote:On another note,
The po-lice DGAF. I guarantee they will do absolutely NOTHING.
Having ridden New Kent Road
Having ridden New Kent Road in these conditions on many occasions, all I can say is that Chi’s taking of the primary position is quite understandable, both from a visibility as well as a road conditon point of view. There are some horrible potholes and covers nearer the pavement.
jmaccelari wrote:Having
Fine, take the primary position when you spot a pothole, then pull back in once you’ve past it. Simples! 🙂
First thing to do is report
First thing to do is report the potholes to the local authority then when they haven’t repaired them in the alloted time have an accident the sue the council. They would get mended pretty quickly then.
I’ve experienced twatty moped riders myself, they seem to think its funny to whizz by flat out as close as possible. My tactic is to give a little “innocent” wobble as they approach, you can pretty much always hear them coming as most have removed the baffle silencers from the exhausts.
Quote:First thing to do is
Personnally i would rather not have an accident than worry about suing after the event!
I had a few negative
I had a few negative responses to my earlier post. I read it back and it is a lot grumpier than I meant it to, and I definitely apologise for that… And sorry to the original poster for any of the words that felt like a personal attack, my exasperation was for the community as a whole. I think we’re all on the same side here, I ride in zones 1-2 every day and know what road users can be like to each other. As for the return replies calling me elitist and other names, well, I will try to be more constructive and re-phrase, because I think my points are still valid, but need phrased better:
– these videos only have negative outcomes when posted, as far as I can see. There are several offers of criminal retribution in this thread, not cool. Then there’s the over reaction like calls for the charge of attempted murder and others declaring their strong belief that police won’t do much, and calling any slight dissenters out as victim blamers. Really?
– couldn’t people be potentially put off cycling by watching these vids? Surely that is something we should avoid.
– this and other slightly less aggressive driving (and cycling) happens all the time in Central London. The place is full of road rage, as well as careless, unqualified, and uninsured driving, lemming-like pedestrians and terrible cycling. The video is frightening and does show violent road rage but I’m almost numb to it because I see a lot that is, say, a quarter to half as bad as this. We need to somehow concentrate on a productive and constructive response that improves attitudes and relationships. I haven’t got any great ideas myself apart from trying to be a considerate cyclist and not react angrily every time I nearly get knocked off, but inviting comments on these videos seem like endless negative reinforcement. My petty comment about core activation was an example – distasteful and I’m sorry again but it was meant to show a potentially constructive use of the video.
Some of the responses to your
Some of the responses to your post were a bit over the top, better to vent on a forum than to commit some kind of road rage though.
Whirlio wrote:- this and
I agree with you completely on this. I cycle every day in Central London and have lived and cycled all round the city and experienced all levels of craziness/aggression/competency from cars, vans, taxi’s, buses, scooters, pedestrians and cyclists, I’ll even admit that I’ve done the occasional stupid thing myself (sacrilege I know).
On the morning of this post an M&S van driver actually lent out of his window and tried to push me into another lane because I was in the right-hand lane to go right (where I was going) instead of the left-hand lane to go left (where I wasn’t going) and only going about 25mph. He couldn’t get to the red light 50 yards up the road quickly enough apparently.
That’s one of the more extreme examples, as is this article, but it did make me break out in a wry smile seeing the angry comments later that day as the (thankfully very) occasional violent attack as in this case, or, more much frequent lack of road manners or becoming enraged at someone else wasting 3 seconds of your oh so valuable time is very common amongst all road users in London it seems to me. When I first started cycling in the capital I used to get very angry myself all the time at the near misses, abuse and occasional use of vehicles as weapons. I now just give them a smile 😀 and try to engage them in a friendly discussion (most of the time). This doesn’t always work but makes me a much happier cyclist. I stopped in front of the van on this occasion and another cyclist who saw the incident from behind got very angry and urged me to take his license number, which I should have done, but, because I was late for work I just cycled on after umm’ing and arr’ing for a minute only for the full realisation of what had happened to hit me once I’d stopped for a minute later on. I don’t have a camera myself, but it’s incidents like this that remind me it’s sadly almost a must in Central London if you cycle every day, I can’t speak for other cities.
I’d also like to say that despite all the above it’s still by miles and miles the best way to get around and I arrive at work in a much better mood (most mornings) than I ever did using public transport or driving.
Whirlio wrote:The place is
From this section, it sounds like you’ve gotten used to the abuse and see it as a ‘normal’ by now. I can understand that, doing Zone 1 & 2 myself most days of the week, including weekends.
However, the type of behaviour we deal with every day isn’t at all OK, and that’s why your statement is getting such a vitriolic response.
I actually do feel that the behaviour in the video is intentional, criminal, and should be pursued not as a ‘road traffic issue’ but as attempted GBH at least.
Yes, lots of “us cyclists” are knobs… and very high on our metal or carbon horses. Plenty of us drive, and hopefully well, but a section don’t and won’t ever get it.
But the problem is the careless, and at times straight out homicidal, drivers of armoured metal boxes.
As someone who’s just taken
As someone who’s just taken up cycle commuting 6 week ago, over 30 years since I last rode a bike, the attitude of car drivers to me has been quite a revelation. I’ve been driving a car for 35 years and frankly I have seen more malice and aggression shown to me while I’m cycling that when I’m driving in the last few weeks.
To most cyclists I’m sure this won’t be a surprise, but I think a lot of car drivers would be surprised.
Only last Friday I had a car deliberately suddenly pull out across the one way road to block the whole road to me before reversing back to his position in the gates of the building he was parked at once I’d had to brake (there was no traffic, he wasn’t going anywhere and I was well lit), followed a few hundred yards later by a van almost mowing me down on the wrong side of the road (cars parked all long his side of the road but he didn’t need to come so far over) – seemingly to just to scare me for fun on both occasions.
I hadn’t really appreciated the sheer stupidity and aggression of some drivers towards cyclists. Far above what I experience from drivers when I’m behind the wheel myself.
fatsimonstan wrote:
I hadn’t
Sadly, it seems the general equation goes, human beings + power-over-others = viciousness. (Though maybe there’s a +X on the LHS of that equation, where X is some mysterious cultural factor.)
Cycling on the road sometimes feels like participating in that infamous Stanford prison experiment as an inmate.
I’d echo the sentiments of
I’d echo the sentiments of many of the posters above, that there is far too much aggression on London’s roads. The frustrating element of it is that there are people who are really not in control of their emotions on the road and they need to be removed until they can prove that they have the temperament to handle a vehicle in an urban environment. A driving licence needs to have controls closer to a firearms licence, ie if there are any doubts over anger issues it goes. This video should be prima facie evidence sufficient to remove the licence and vehicle. However I suspect the met will take a look and file it in the big round thing on the floor also known as the bin along with the rest.
Scary to think wht could have
Scary to think wht could have happened if th cyclist hadn’t clung on after th kick. Cars and busses can easily do 30mph in the stretch of road there. I cycle old and new Kent road twice a day so i hope i never meet this moped idiot. I hope he’s dragged to court!
The Police simply don’t care
The Police simply don’t care about this sort of thing unless there are targets. Police = civil servants + warrant cards
Post it on youtube with the
Post it on youtube with the number plate in the title.
Someone will recognise it and slash the tyres or put a brick through [his house] window. I would if I knew who he was!