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Cyclists in Bilston (West Midlands Police).jpgVideo: Police appeal after driver mounts pavement to hit cyclist in Bilston
West Midlands Police has released CCTV footage of the moments leading up to a collision in which a driver mounted the pavement to hit a cyclist in Bilston before leaving the scene. The victim was left with multiple skull fractures and other serious injuries, from which he continues to recover.
The incident occurred on St Chad’s Road at around 10.50pm on November 9.
In a post on Facebook, the force said that a 20-year-old man was cycling along the footpath with a friend, when the driver of a dark coloured car mounted the pavement and knocked him off his bike.
Police believe that the force of the impact may mean that the car sustained front end damage to the bumper and windscreen, which could have been repaired.
If you have information, call 101 and ask for the Complex Crime Team at Wolverhampton or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
In October we reported that West Midlands Police were attempting to trace a Birmingham motorist after he allegedly chased a cyclist before mounting a kerb and hitting him.
The mother of the 17-year-old victim believes he only survived being run over because he was on boggy grass at the time and not the road.
Alex has written for more cricket publications than the rest of the road.cc team combined. Despite the apparent evidence of this picture, he doesn't especially like cake.
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- belugabob 2 sec ago
Nicely done, sir - criticising bad behaviour in a non transport mode specific manner....
- mattw 5 hours 40 min ago
I take the greatest increase being in Inner not Central or Outer London as being because much infra was previously built in Central London and...
- mark1a 6 hours 11 min ago
Controversial I know but the problems would mostly go away if the whole lot was decriminalised or legalised, dependence and addiction were treated...
- BikeyDavey92 9 hours 48 min ago
As someone who works in Insurance completely agree with this. This is why you have the product and even if everyone is well intentioned, you can...
- ktache 10 hours 28 min ago
Don't know what it was about today, maybe the banks of mist, but I received several weeks of close passes in one day.
- Sriracha 10 hours 55 min ago
I've a feeling that yellow colour attracts flying insects - either that or they're just out to get me. So the bug mesh is a valuable addition
- Hirsute 11 hours 30 min ago
At a pinch point, where the road narrows, in a blind bend, to avoid a pothole, to avoid being doored, to deter a senseless or careless overtake,...
- Backladder 12 hours 2 min ago
No more ludicrous than the UCI sock height limits!
- grumpyoldcyclist 12 hours 5 min ago
They may be limited to 50 or 60 mph, but they don't observe it and speed cameras haven't been told about the different limits....
- CyclingGardener 12 hours 9 min ago
I agree. As I said, just trying to add some context.
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At least we can use this footage to campaign against mandatory hi-viz.
What a massive amount of assumptions there on here based on very little information.
You assume people don't know more than the article gave.....
Plus this is a “comments” section, not “further investigations/information”. Fridays in particular are for posting rampant speculation and general WAG-ing on company time.
That could be read as "wives and girlfriends-ing" on company time, which is a somewhat different message to the one I think you were trying to send!
Looks probably like some drug dealer on drug dealer action to me. That's him taught about 'respect'.
The Daily Mail will love this. They can run a click-bait piece about how ALL drivers are homicidal-pavement-mounting-pyschos...
Nah - they'll run a piece on how two lycra-louts were riding on the pavement.
I think your sarcasm detector needs re-calibration.
Agree with the earlier comment - looks like a planned assault; the victim’s riding was incidental.
...until a public-spirited motorist, who also happens to be a keen cyclist himself, thought he could not pass up an opportunity do his civic duty by putting an immediate stop to this wanton flouting of pavement cycling laws and make them safe for local grannies out and about on their zimmer frames...
kids being exploited by drug related gangs - then it goes wrong - maybe not but a good chance
Looks like the driver had malicious intent from the way they sped into view, and the poor lads saw him coming and tried to get out of the way.
There's surely some back story to this...
Doesn't matter what they have done you don't mount the pavement to run someone down.
Looks like a targeted attack with previous. They no doubt did something to this person or pissed them off in someway. These are lads on bikes, not "cyclists", still out of order.
Whats the difference between a cyclist (i.e a person riding a bike) and a "cyclist"?
What are you on about? Of course they are cyclists. Anyone on a bike is a cyclist, by definition. What distinction are you making and why?
This site has a lot of "it means what I say it means" going on in relation to the word "cyclist". I've never quite got to the bottom of it myself, either.
they may have been on the pavement when hit, but they were clearly riding on the road itself as the driver approached.