A cyclist in Gateshead has sustained a broken pelvis following a suspected hit-and-run incident last Sunday which police are treating as assault.
Northumbria Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which they say happened on Sunderland Road shortly after 1pm on Sunday 19 April.
The 56-year-old male cyclist was knocked off his bike, breaking his pelvis.
The motorist is then said to have driven off towards the Five Bridges roundabout.
Detective Constable Stephen Patterson of Northumbria Police said: “This is clearly a very dangerous incident that could have resulted in a very serious injury.
“A car has been described to have intentionally hit a cyclist which we are investigating as an assault.
“This type of behaviour is totally unacceptable, and we will deal with anyone found to have been involved robustly.
“I would ask any members of the public who witnessed what happened, or who have any information that can help with our investigation, to get in touch.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact police via the Tell us something page on their website quoting reference 453 190420.
13 thoughts on “Cyclist suffers broken pelvis in ‘deliberate’ hit and run assault”
Detective Constable Stephen
Detective Constable Stephen Patterson of Northumbria Police said: “This is clearly a very dangerous incident that could have resulted in a very serious injury.”
A broken pelvis seems pretty sodding serious to me. #onlyacyclist
Yup.
Yup.
And this: “This type of behaviour is totally unacceptable, and we will deal with anyone found to have been involved robustly.”
Sort of thing you might say in response to the lights going missing off the village Christmas tree.
Sriracha wrote:
Exactly – what’s wrong with “This is prima facie case of attempted murder”?
Roubaixcobbles wrote:
Exactly – what’s wrong with “This is prima facie case of attempted murder”?— Sriracha
Or “We will hunt them down and bury them in a shallow grave”?
And it was ‘the car’ wot did
And it was ‘the car’ wot did it.
It’s always the same, they
It’s always the same, they report it as if the car crashed itself and the driver was just a passenger.
Sriracha wrote:
If this kind of aggression happens to me or any member of my family I’ll be responding ‘robustly’ – with a hammer.
Richard D wrote:
Feeling irritated but how did he get to be a DC, I doubt he could dectect his socks in the morning without his mothers help, oxygen thief.
https://www.theguardian.com
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/26/police-in-england-warn-rural-vigilantes-not-to-take-law-into-own-hands-coronavirus-lockdown
‘Julia Mulligan, the National Rural Crime Network chair … told the Guardian: “We’ve had small-scale vigilantism, if you like, so communities blocking off roads, people driving aggressively at cyclists.”’
This is going way beyond a few passive -aggressive posters. It’s time the Government made absolutely clear what is, and is not, acceptable outdoor activity, and that intimidating and assaulting road and path users will be treated for what it is. (And by the way Julia, driving a car at a cyclist is not ‘small- scale vigilantism’.)
It’s attempted murder, or in the case above, at least GBH.
I hope thevictim makes a speedy recovery.
She added-
She added-
“All sorts of little things, nothing that is criminal but people really making it clear how anxious they feel.”
Worryingly this woman is also
Worryingly this woman is also the boss of policing in North Yorkshire.
pockstone wrote:
Only a cyclist, so attacking them with a lethal weapon doesn’t really count as attempted murder or GBH, just a bit of fun by the driver.
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Detective Constable Stephen Patterson of Northumbria Police said: “This is clearly a very dangerous incident that could have resulted in a very serious injury.
Could have? It did.
If a broken pelvis isn’t a serious injury, what is?