The Oxford Mail reports that a cyclist was punched in the head after getting into an argument with the driver of a silver Mercedes E-Class.
The incident took place in Honeybottom Lane, between Cothill and Boars Hill, on New Year’s Day at 1.40pm. The 47-year-old male victim was cycling along Honeybottom Lane when he got into an argument with the Mercedes driver who then punched him in the head, bruising his cheek and splitting his ear.
The driver is described as being 6ft tall with a dark beard and was wearing a grey hooded top and two looped earrings in his left ear. Officers are appealing for information.
In June 2013, an Oxford man was arrested on suspicion of GBH following a road rage incident involving a cyclist. However, on this occasion, it was the cyclist who assaulted the driver following a near miss on Park Road at the exit of the University of Oxford’s site there.
Police said the man assaulted the driver with his bike lock and also damaged the vehicle. The victim was treated at the city’s John Radcliffe Hospital for facial injuries.
14 thoughts on “Oxford cyclist punched in head in road rage incident”
Hold on guys, a cyclist is
Hold on guys, a cyclist is assaulted by a driver, but it’s necessary to mention the ONE event in which a person on a bike hits a driver, even though it took place 18 months ago?
Yes I thought road.cc was
Yes I thought road.cc was better than this!
Velo_Alex wrote:Hold on guys,
Maybe they’re attempting to paint a picture of Oxford as a veritable cycling warzone.
Velo_Alex wrote:Hold on guys,
I get a bit tired of the driver punches cyclist story though. If a driver stops and is out of their car after a verbal altercation then it’s a fair assumption (reasonable person test) that they might be intent on violence. They can do verbal from inside the car so getting out indicates that an argumant or verbal exchange is not what they want. It’s different if they are still in the car mind. But out and fronting you means they are fair game if they show any sign at all of aggression. So whacking a road rager that’s out of their vehicle looking for aggro is self defence pure and simple.
” I saw the driver get out of their vehicle and walk aggressively and purposefully towards me. It was clear to me that they intended to be violent. I could not see what they had in their hand as they kept that behind them and hidden from me. I feared that I might be assaulted with some kind of weapon and hurt. In self defence I…..”
Velo_Alex wrote:Hold on guys,
It appears to be some unfathomable urge on road.cc’s part to shoehorn ‘balance’ into a story where it doesn’t belong.
If that’s the case, can we look forward to the next hit and run report featuring a dead cyclist in a ditch to also mention the last instance of an uncaring cyclist using his bike to wipe out a motorist?
You try fighting in these
You try fighting in these f’in shoes its hard enough to stand up!
The lesson is never argue
The lesson is never argue with idiots. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
I was punched in the head by
I was punched in the head by a driver in Manchester a few months ago, because he cut me up and I remonstrated with him.
The police found him, because my wife had the reg. They interviewd him and he admitted hitting me.
Then they did nothing because it was a first offence, so the rule is..
if in Manchester you can drive badly, put people in dnager and then punch someone once and get away with it.
Quote:The driver is described
Just your typical Mercedes driver. B-)
All you armchair
All you armchair heroes.
Road.cc is a forum devoted to cycling accidents.
The cyclist in this incident is lucky he wasn’t killed. look up single punch deaths. Fighting is for idiots.
Walk away.
Seriously it isn’t worth it. Even if you are ‘good’ at violence it is likely to lead to a bad outcome one way or the other.
birzzles wrote:All you
To be fair, I’d say those unfortunate enough to be terminated from a single punch are seriously unlucky rather than the other way around.
My rule when it comes to altercations is that if the aggressor gets out of the car and does anything other than immediately try and hit you, then the reality is that they are not going to hit you…
Jimmy Ray Will wrote:My rule
If the door starts opening…..
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birzzles wrote:All you
To be fair, I’d say those unfortunate enough to be terminated from a single punch are seriously unlucky rather than the other way around.
My rule when it comes to altercations is that if the aggressor gets out of the car and does anything other than immediately try and hit you, then the reality is that they are not going to hit you…
My old karate teacher, a
My old karate teacher, a former Israeli soldier and also former captain of the British karate team, said something that has stayed with me over many years. He said the good thing about practicing martial arts is that they make you aware enough to know when a confrontational situation is arising so you can in most instances, avoid it. If people go looking for trouble, they are sure to find it. There are very, very few instances in real life when it proves necessary to defend oneself against an aggressor. Responding to aggressive behaviour with yet more aggressive behaviour is part of the problem, not the solution in all but a teeny, tiny minority of instances in western society.