Police appeal after driver rams Suffolk cyclist from behind

helmet cam or bar cam.

If you have the means then I sincerely recommend that you pick one up.

In this case the incident, driver behaviour, vehicle registration, distinguishing marks on vehicle, possibly a description image or partial image of the driver would be available. This would enable them to have a better chance of catching the driver and then a very good chance of convicting them.

I hope you're being facetious MercuryOne. After all, I'm usually riding at 5pm on a weekday... home from work.

If you go out on your bike at 5pm on a weekday when people are trying to get home after a hard day at work what do you expect? Bloody cyclists.

Sounds like the steroids.

[[[[[ If Chris Matthews had been out for a walk instead of on his bike, surely this premeditated attack would be regarded, by anyone with even half a brain, as attempted murder.
Surely at least one of Chris's friends got the reg. number of this silver Vauxhall Corsa?
[[[[[ And I read very recently an alledged quote from the police---would you Adam'n'Eve it---that there is no such charge as "Using a motor vehicle as a weapon against a person or persons".....(I paraphrase, of course). I but why the phluck isn't there? It seems to happen pretty much every day.

Shame. I have fond memories of cycling in Suffolk and I will always remember them as kind people for having given me a lift to the next town when my spoke snapped.

I had one, some years ago, in central London. The car just turn left while I was level with his front wheel, I had looked to see the car, it was signalling and then just went through me, I bounced down the side of the car and onto the road. I had a pedestrian witness on the corner and we got the full number plate. The Police said that as I couldnt see the drivers face clearly there was nothing they could/would do. I have never had any faith the police again.

This has been going on for decades. The surprise is that the police gave a damn. If it had been Leeds police they would have refuse to investigate. Yes, exactly that has happened to me.

I hope they catch the driver, but it is unlikely without number plate details. I wonder what they would charge the driver with? Would it be the attempted murder that it ought to be?

In forty years of cycling every collision with a car I have been involved in or seen first hand has been deliberate by the driver.

Theres no psychopath test required to get a licence.

Depressing, accidents are bad enough, recently there seem to be more reports of psychopaths deliberately swerving into cyclists and now deliberately running cyclists over. I am starting to dread road.cc posts as too many are about similar stories. Scary how many people seem to generate so much hatred against other road users, that they are happy to risk ruining other people's life.

If (big if) they catch this driver there should be an immediate jail sentence no matter what their personal circumstances, followed by a lengthy driving ban and some psychiatric help. Hope Chris is O.K. and continues riding.

I was hit and run. It is indeed terrifying. Driver never traced.

Fortunately Mr Mathews and his bike don't look too badly damaged. I would be getting both checked out.

It's not helmets that should be mandatory but head cams, front and rear, tax free zero rated VAT with a huge subsidy for cyclists only, to film and record these c***s trying to kill us.

Scumbag.

your link to the bury free press article is broken

here's the proper link:

http://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/news/local/latest-news/terrifying-moment-...