Police have arrested a 22-year-old woman on suspicion of common assault and a public order offence after BBC broadcaster Jeremy Vine passed them footage of an incident on Kensington last month.
Vine was riding through Kensington on his way home from work when the driver first tailgated him then, when he stopped to ask her to give him space, got out of her car and verbally abused him as well as aiming a kick at the 51-year-old.
> Video: Driver tailgates BBC’s Jeremy Vine then kicks out at him
A spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police Service, quoted in the London Evening Standard, confirmed that an arrest had been made.
She said: “The 22-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of common assault and a public order offence. She has been bailed to return to police on a date in early September.”
Over the weekend, a student from Brixton aged 22 who gave her name as Shayna, told The Sun that she had been driving the car and felt she had been “provoked” by Vine.
Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, writing in his column in the same newspaper, also waded into the debate, accusing Vine of “selfish” cycling.
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18 thoughts on “Woman arrested following alleged assault on Jeremy Vine”
Good! Silly cow.
Good! Silly cow.
‘Provoked’ – by the presence
‘Provoked’ – by the presence of a legal road user.
Well an example was needed,
Well an example was needed, let’s hope for consistency in every case. Wonder about her car tax too.
Well an example was needed,
Oops, DP.
Indeed people who live in
Indeed people who live in glass houses – driving car with out of date VED means driving uninsured, Police could equally have charged her with this offence without any reference to assault. Not brightest idea to lose it when driving illegally, but as we see with many postings, those whose driving standards are poor often have other skeletons in their cupboard.
A V Lowe wrote:
This is a common misconception. Provided the policy has been paid for, the third party liability is incredibly hard for an insurer to disclaim. And rightly so, otherwise an insurer could easily wiggle out of providing life long care for an accident victim, causing the burden to fall on the tax payer.
It may be that the insuree, when breaching the contract, finds themselves liable for some of the insurer’s costs, but that doesn’t mean they’re driving without insurance.
Regrettably, there was a period where the police were a bit ‘enthusiastic’ when sticking people on for contractual breaches rather than asking the question – “is this person, at this moment in time, insured for third party risks?”
I hear electro-shock therapy
I hear electro-shock therapy works wonders.
Erm – not sure where you
Erm – not sure where you guys have been but you no longer have to display a “tax disc” as VED is all done on line.
The police can check that you have paid your VED by means of ANPR.
So no disc being displayed does not mean she has not paid.
However she should not be on the road for the lack of common courtesy and considertion that she shows to other road users.
Can’t say i would be that impresed with her if i owned the car that she bashed her door into in an effort to get out and assualt JV.
SevenHills wrote:
You can search by reg on the gov.uk site to see the “tax” status of a vehicle – that’s what someone did and posted on social media. The lack of tax-disc isn’t what people are going on.
My bad. Let’s hope plod is
My bad. Let’s hope plod is as diligent.
By a non legal road user. The
@Pauldmorgan beat me to it. I checked and it wasn’t.
Someone should make a phone
Someone should make a phone app that OCRs registration plates/allow manual entry, and looks up the tax status on gov.uk – might be useful addition for reporting idiots in cars to the police.
She should be just fine if it
She should be just fine if it ever gets to Court. She can call Jeremy Clarkson as a character witness.
To borrow a phrase:
What could possibly go wrong?
She’ll end up on Top Gear to
She’ll end up on Top Gear to replace Chris Evans.
I can’t say I’m surprised to
I can’t say I’m surprised to read that the young lady is from Brixton. It’s seems to be an acceptable norm for young women around there to behave incredibly aggressively once behind the wheel. I’ve no idea why that should be.
Jonny_Trousers wrote:
if my local pubs served this, I would be angry too:
http://www.urban75.org/blog/peak-hipster-artisan-douchenozzlery-achieved-in-london-with-the-hot-water-bottle-cocktail/
nice try though, if a little behind the times …
I’m glad the driver has been
I’m glad the driver has been arrested. But I fear she wouldn’t have been taken into custody if her victim had not been famous, and the video had gone viral. And that she is too thick to learn a lesson from the incident, even in the unlikely event that they actually follow it through to conviction and she receives an appropriate sentence.
As for Jeremy Clarkson’s contribution to the “debate” (what debate, the law is clear), I wonder how many people he has held up while roads were closed so that he could drive a supercar badly along them? Or how many have been delayed in their important business when he or his idiot friends blocked the road while some hilarious calamity befell them and their wacky vehicles on some oh-so-funny quest? And, of course, how many people were disturbed while on a restful holiday in the Yorkshire Dales by him beating up an employee? The fact that anyone, even a Murdoch rag, pays him to give his opinion on what is or isn’t considerate behaviour is a sign of a deep sickness at the heart of this society.
The good news is that his fame is on the wane, now that he has lost the platform on free-to-air TV that was previous and inexplicably given to him by a public service broadcaster to which he is ideologically opposed. The bad news is that he has been overtaken by a dozen even more right-wing nutjobs.
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If she lives in Brixton, works/studies in Kensington, and drives between the two, it’s not surprising she is frustrated as the motor traffic is mostly stationary on that route.
She needs a faster less stressful journey, either by tube or even better cycling between the two.