Video: Helmet camera footage leads to aggressive driver pleading guilty to four charges

I would say the result here is to do with him driving while disqualified, I'm not sure the sheriff has taken the brake tests and punishment pass into account at at all.

Why the hell doesn't driving like an arsehole, whilst banned and uninsured result in a 5 year ban? - minimum.

Yeh, same things happened to me on a few occasions - next time they're (car drivers) DEAD

Again the same pattern. Cyclist initiates confrontation with a gesture then aggro ensues. Don't forget what cyclists perceive as too close, drivers don't. In fact cyclists often pass cars at speed too close hence dooring collisions. This driver deserved all he got but cyclists don't react like this. This could've been far worse.

Give a guy driving whilst banned a driving ban - yeah, that'll learn 'im.

Hi to all of you two wheeled potential victims.
Irrespective of the alleged behaviour of Magnatom this footage should be taken for what it really is.
It shows very clearly the aggressive reaction/ actions of a serial banned driver.
What is the point of banning the guy any-more than has already been done,he was driving dangerously and without insurance or a driving license and also causing a breach of the peace.
He clearly has little or no regard for the law and clearly wants taking off of the road by jailing him.
The car should be confiscated and impounded.
If people like this are allowed continued liberty they are going to continue offending and wagging two fingers at society and the law.
One day they will kill whilst doing just what this individual was doing,wagging two fingers and with total contempt.

"£375, banned from driving for 48 weeks and ordered to perform 150 hours of community payback."

laughable.

£375 - the car has an 03 plate and is worth up to 3 times that amount maybe. Why not crush the car as a starting point ?

banned for 48 weeks? He's already banned and that didn't stop him!!

150 hours of community service? Pouring cups of tea for old ladies in care homes? Woopy Doo. Harsh bro innit?

Children seem to have been pretty much driven off of the streets now. At least they have their video games to make house arrest more tolerable (including the likes of GTA, perhaps ironically)

Maybe things are changing a little bit. 4 years ago when I first started taking my son out cycling on the roads, people would look at you like they were going to phone childline or report you to the authorities. Now I see quite a lot of younger kids out on road bikes.

We still get a lot of kids around me playing out in the streets. Admittedly I sometime wish they hadn't resurfaced my road as that has made it worse. Previously exceeding 10mph on it would've destroyed any car.

To possess a licence to drive a car is a privilege, not a right.

All drivers should sign up to a charter that says they will obey the rules of the roads, and respect the law. It is not a playground to show who is boss....

If a driver ends up getting a ban, and then drives having been banned; this should fall under a criminal act (not a motoring one).

If banned and a judge deems it, then such people should have a psychological evaluation to ensure they are trustworthy enough to possess a driving licence.

Road safety of vulnerable road users needs to be on the political agenda, or traffic related injuries and death (read financial loss and economic burden) must be taken seriously by Parliament.

It's good to see some consequences to bad driving however giving a driving ban to someone who is known to ignore driving bans is ridiculous. I have long held the view that drivers found to be driving whilst banned should have the remainer of their ban converted into a custodial sentance automatically.

Another option would be to restrict them to travelling at a maximum speed of 20mph. A GPS tracking unit could be used to enforce this.

but if you catch the wrong person then you might find that using a head cam is suddenly an intrusion of privacy

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/cyclists-use-of-helmet-cameras-requires...

wealthy guy doors cyclist and walks away
press suck up
did later apologise
as to the UK already banned issue here in Victoria, Aus' just starting with ARP and finding a lot of banned drivers / drivers never had a license - no surprise

Could I plead with fellow cyclists not to swear at car drivers, or any other road users. The chances are that the situation is more likely then to escalate rather than deescalate, and it doesn't make us any friends.
Swearing is an understandable reaction, and in this case the driver's actions were deliberate. However, drivers, like the rest of us, do make mistakes, and are more likely to learn from the mistake if we are gracious towards them.
Just the other day I suggested this to another cyclist in Edinburgh, who said the swearing was what came into his head. Maybe we could each rehearse something more positive to say when the occasion arises.
And we can show our thanks to drivers who are courteous towards us, as suggested here http://www.cyclelifestyle.co.uk/blog/why-cyclists-should-thank-courteous...

I have to preface this post that I am a 60 miles/week cyclist because having read it back before posting there is a danger that people may assume I am a bike-hating car-owner.

I have no sympathy for the driver's behaviour, and he should have had a heavier punishment but…

Magnatom is an utterly terrible cyclist. Watch his other videos of supposedly bad driving behaviour. He regularly jumps red lights, cuts lanes, rides in the wrong lane, cuts in between traffic, lane hogs, moves into faster lanes and then slows his speed, cuts right hand corners, passes MUCH closer to vehicles than they pass to him …… and so on.
And when any driver reacts to his bad cycling behaviour he stops and behaves aggressively towards them.

And that is just the footage he posts, how badly does he ride in the bits that he cuts?

On banning for life, I think that is too much in most cases, 10-15 year ban perhaps but not life. Unless it can be shown that they deliberately used their vehicle to try to injure somebody, but that would be very hard to prove without footage of someone following and aiming their vehicle at someone else.

On the subject of persistent driving while banned, obviously another ban isn't going to have any effect, maybe it would be better to just crush the car, or sell it in a police auction. Already done for non payment of VED.

What really should be done with these type of drivers is ban them for life, yes i did say life and ban them from owning a motor vehicle as it appears some "people" never learn.

If you felt the need for a self defence assist, old fashioned steel bike pump may be what you need...

Is there a legal (or policy) reason why the name of the convicted driver isn't mentioned?

Just wondering because am not clear on the details of this and was looking for other reports. If he was already driving while banned, how does the new ban work? Is that going to be added to the end of the existing ban (which he clearly is ignoring anyway)? And which part of the penalty is for which offense?

What punishment would the guy have received for just the driving while banned part, or the driving without insurance part, if he hadn't also committed the dangerous driving offense?

I'm curious as to whether driving bans are in fact enforced in any meaningful way.

Well that certainly proves driving bans work...

Exactly the same thing happened to me recently.....but I don't have a Headcam. Managed to bang on the back window pretty loudly though. Forced me into considering a change to my route which takes the same amount of time and there's less traffic, so some good came out of it.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again here as it seems apt.

We all understand that there are certain 'privileges' enjoyed by those behind the wheel of a car. As commented previously, if you went around threatening people with a base ball bat or knife in the same way as you see people doing with cars, you'd be behind bars before you knew it.

Now, to be fair, should things go wrong for any of 'us' when driving our own cars, we'll be pretty pleased those privileges exist, as no one wants to spend 5 years in jail for a careless mistake.... so, I can kind of tolerate the current status quo.

However, I am not sure why those privileges are also given to those already deemed unsafe to be on our road... IMO anyone driving whilst banned, should be tried on the basis that they were not driving a car, but instead illegally in control of a potentially lethal weapon.

I.E the same as running around Tescos waving a machete about.

It's of note that the driver has an existing record for bad driving and a string of offences to his name. This shows his lack of concern for other road users, not just the cyclist in this incident. It does beg questions as to how many more offences he'll go on to commit, and how he can be prevented from driving during these bans.

It surprises me, that the aggressor, doesn't destroy the video camera. If I was being threatened. My weapon of choice would be my bicycle, and my means of restraint would be nice long zip ties. Very useful for emergency bike repairs, and if of sufficient length capable of cutting off the blood supply to the brain.