The Metropolitan Police is appealing for witnesses after a cyclist was kicked off his bike by a moped rider in Dagenham.
The attack left the cyclist with two broken fingers.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said that officers were called to the area at 17:33 on Friday January 16 after reports of an incident involving a moped rider and a cyclist.
The moped rider allegedly kicked the cyclist, who was on his bike at the time, at the zebra crossing outside Goresbrook leisure centre near the A13.
Police say they don't have a description of the moped rider and pillion.
DC Nainesh Desai said: “We are appealing for anyone who may have seen a cycle and moped at the zebra crossing on the A13 near the Goresbrook Leisure centre on Friday, 16 January at 17:33hrs.
"Anyone who witnessed the incident is asked to contact the appeal number on 020 3276 1090 or 101 quoting ref 5100841/15."
There is no suggestion of a link between this and a January 2014 incident in which a cyclist was kicked by a moped rider, police say.
The victim of that attack, Chi Yong La was riding on New Kent Road, taking the lane because of bad weather and potholes, when a man on a moped rode up on his left “shouting something about ‘is the middle of the road yours…’” Chi said.
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 lodged a complaint with the police, but was disappointed to be told that despite his helmet camera footage of the incident showing the moped's registration, the police would not investigate because there were no independent witnesses.
17 thoughts on “Met Police appeal after cyclist kicked off bike by moped rider in Dagenham”
oh FFS, police can’t be arsed
oh FFS, police can’t be arsed to investigate again! Moped rider thinks he has got away with it and does it again in future, next time the cyclist is not so lucky.
Even if the police can’t press charges, have a f***ing word with him hopefully he won’t do it again, and he knows the police are aware so if he tries again….
By that logic, why bother
By that logic, why bother following up murder, rape or sexual abuse claims, after all there are rarely any other witneses to those crimes in many of those cases either.
That is a disgrace, why
That is a disgrace, why bother with helmet cams if the police cannot be bothered to do something about it?
The Met should get off their arses and make the roads safer for all road users.
Is the video on you tube? I
Is the video on you tube? I guess it doesn’t show the kick.
If it shows the number plate then someone might spot it.
Don’t get that many mopeds with pillion passengers. Especially legally.
No surprise as the plod are
No surprise as the plod are generally fucking useless. I was chased and pushed off by scrotes badly bruising my hands, hurting my knee, damaging my bike and ripping my jacket when I went down, two independent witnesses, but plod said it was unlikey the scrotes would be caught as there was no CCTV to id them. WTF! The police are fecking useless.
There is a link to the the
There is a link to the the 2014 incident on the New Kent Road. The lack of deterrent, following the decision by the Police to do no more than send a roadsafe letter to the moped rider.
The failure to prosecute reckless behaviour allows it to continue.
Is It possible for the Police
Is It possible for the Police to be any more useless? I seriously doubt it! I honestly have no Idea what purpose they serve other than to bully the innocent. Think I’ll kick the wing mirror off a Car on the way home tonight, as long as nobody other than the driver sees me do it it’s perfectly legal based on their logic.
As I can see a few people
As I can see a few people referring to the video evidence, there is no mention of video in this incident. The cyclist attacked last year was wearing a headcam, not this one.
bikebot wrote:As I can see a
You’re right. The Road.cc write-up is unclear unless read closely.
The location and time of this
The location and time of this assault seem to match a report over on the CycleChat forum.
http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/cyclist-attacked-in-dagenham-for-a-laugh.172667/
The injury reported is slightly different, broken wrist Vs fingers. Can anyone on road.cc confirm this is the same incident? In the description, the scooter was actually intruding on a fully segregated cycle track, the A13 at that point is basically a three lane urban motorway.
Right here goes, as a copper
Right here goes, as a copper who now treats what I do as simply something that pays the bills and enables me to buy new bikes, due to a number of factors including constant media negativity and the opinions of armchair generals, a few observations……
Firstly, the plod is far,far, far from perfect, I’ll grant you that, but in this case
1) The case is still ‘open’, you’ve got a named DC appealing for witnesses. Witnesses are good, they help get prosecutions at Court, they may even persuade the CPS to get a job to Court in the first place
2) There is a crime number on the article above, this will have been given to the cyclist, with the injuries described it’s an ABH, not a job you can just ‘write off’
3) No one in their right mind would fob off a ABH victim who has helmet footage of the assault, and not just the number plate, come on Road CC, getting Daily Mail’ish on us here, did the helmet cam show the assault or not? This day and age with Plod looking to get rid of numbers on the payroll, that’s a job loser.
As I said earlier, some things we do in this job leave me shaking my head, but the vast majority of the people you see out there are trying to do their best, even if now it is only about the payday at the end of the month.
And finally……….
They always say society gets the Police it deserves 😕
DivineChorus wrote:
3) No one
The article only mentions the helmet camera regarding the similar incident last year, not this one.
You can read the Police response to that yourself, the victim published it.
http://s14.postimg.org/9lugdlaap/IMG_20140202_221322.jpg
And this is the original recording, considered insufficient to provide “a realistic prospect of achieving a successful prosecution at court”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKfGIAIeLYY
bikebot wrote:DivineChorus
Yep, I stand corrected on the Helmet cam regarding the incident.
The Youtube footage is compelling, moped rider should be off road. End of.
Unfortunately in this job, realism quickly kicks in, unless it’s a watertight chance of conviction there is little or no chance of Court, even then ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ never ceases to amaze me sometimes.
In the case of the incident in the headline of the article, without independent witnesses, it’s ‘he said, he did’ and vice versa. That’s why the appeal has gone out.
when the police say the wont
when the police say the wont be taking it further its that just the lazy plod that happens to have the case? I reported an incident once and the copper did a sterling job despite no whitnesses or actual damage (some twunt trying to intimidate me with car and threats to kill). sadly I think it comes down to the copper that picks up the job
[original]No need for an
[original]No need for an independent witness if they have the victim of an assault, and video evidence. That’s BS. [/original]
Road.cc: Fix your writing. The article is overall misleading unless read as two completely different incidents! Some sub-headings would help.
The Police in this case seem to be doing the right thing.
The police attitude to
The police attitude to assaults on cyclists these days is absolutely shocking, and I think it’s about time the government did something about this to be honest. The amount of assaults that the police can’t be arsed dealing with, despite decent helmet cam footage showing assailants face, registration numbers, date/times etc. is getting beyond a joke.
If it was a serious assault, which it could be argued these attacks on cyclists are, and the victim was a random person in a city center with no witnesses, you can be damn sure that the police would be looking for CCTV footage of the incident and using that to identify those responsible and prosecuting accordingly. What’s so different here. Oh yeah, it’s only a cyclist.
Car drivers deliberately drive into cyclists to intentionally knock them off should be prosecuted for “assault with a deadly weapon” as that’s exactly what it is !
event if this guy didn’t have
event if this guy didn’t have helmet cam footage, the police should still be looking for CCTV footage, and having a word with the driver, at the least (if the victim, got a note of the registration no.).