A road rage driver has been fined £750 and banned from driving for two years after deliberately veering his car towards one of a group of cyclists he was impatient to pass.
The Scottish Sun reports that Andrew Adamson was found guilty of driving dangerously on the B996 Kinross to Kelty road on February 27, 2016.
Perth Sheriff Court heard Adamson had become frustrated because he felt a group of cyclists were getting in his way.
After he had overtaken, one of the cyclists gestured at him feeling that he had passed too closely and Adamson then pulled over to confront them.
He is said to have shouted comments about the Highway Code before driving off again, at which point he swerved towards another of the riders, John Johnston, in a bid to knock him off.
Johnston veered off the road onto a grass verge and fell from his bike.
“He doesn’t look remorseful,” said Sheriff Shead, sentencing Adamson. “Even now he doesn’t seem to recognise the seriousness of the way he behaved.
“This was very serious. You appear not to have the slightest appreciation of your responsibility towards other road users.”
Adamson will have to take an extended driving test before he is allowed back on the road.
18 thoughts on “Road rage driver impatient to pass group of cyclists deliberately swerved to try and hit one”
Obviously a typo and it
Obviously a typo and it should read ‘careless’ or it that just England ?
hirsute wrote:
Section two of the RTA 1988 is dangerous driving and section three is careless driving. Am I missing something here?
WiznaeMe wrote:
http://road.cc/content/news/243724-24-week-suspended-sentence-driver-who-admitted-killing-ray-dare-careless-driving
http://road.cc/content/news/243700-suspended-sentence-and-one-year-ban-suffolk-man-convicted-causing-cyclists-death
http://road.cc/content/news/243307-community-order-and-18-month-ban-driver-who-killed-oncoming-cyclist-while
http://road.cc/content/news/240901-tractor-driver-who-killed-cyclist-due-error-judgement-when-overtaking-avoids
And what the hell is that
And what the hell is that video at the bottom of the linked page ?
So he’s not remorseful but
So he’s not remorseful but whatever, lets let him drive again in a couple of years anyway!
FML.
kie7077 wrote:
ONLY once he passes an extended test… not the normal simple one.
At least it’s something, good
At least it’s something, good, we have all read reports on this site where killing one of us gets less.
I stopped wearing a camera
I stopped wearing a camera for a while but then a motorist tried to swerve into me after telling me repeatedly to just let go of a close pass he made. Wear a camera people, I know 300 grams out of nowhere is a lot but you won’t be getting KOMs with a shattered ribcage, pierced lungs and a motorist who walks away free to run over someone else.
I know it’s REALLY hard, but
I know it’s REALLY hard, but don’t gesticulate.
I fail to adhere to this advice regularly.
Beecho wrote:
I told some loon today to “slow down mate” as he careered around a blind bend into a residential street next to a park full of kids. he stops, asked me what I said, i repeated what I said, he came up to me as if he could intimidate me and asked what I was going to do, call the police if you want. He ends up saying “it’s a small town, I will find where you live and I’ll kill you” I just told him he won’t do shit because he’s full of waffle.
He even had his missus and kid in the car too, she got out and was trying to say he was a nutjob, yeah I gathered that, I’ll be waiting fellah, just make sure you don’t miss because I won’t, I’ll be all in.
There are some full on psycho’s behind the wheel of motors, maybe if their own kid was killed they might think twice about how they behave behind the wheel of a killing machine.
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
Thats implying that they even think *once*, and your encounter demonstrated that’s not always the case…
(You do wonder what’s so offensive about asking someone to slow down… Is it just because it’s “restricting my right to do whatever I want “? I drove a car yesterday, first time for more than a year; I’d thought it felt like people drove fast just because I was riding a bike, but it’s clearly more than that. I was driving at about 5mph below the speed limit as a maximum (slower than that where I felt it appropriate) and I spent my entire journey with a train of following cars commencing less than a cars length from my car’s rear bumper. Very off putting.)
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
From the Liam Gallagher school of fighting, shout and swear and hope that you’d backdown. He’d probably run like a little girl if you just hit him instead of arguing.
bikeman01 wrote:
Scream like a little girl and run away? Why, that is exactly my first line of defence.
bikeman01 wrote:
Actually I don’t think he would, i wasn’t going to test that however and i’ve only ever thrown the first blow in one circumstance in my life (i’ve unfortunately been in too many rumbles). I haven’t completely lost my shit since i was 15, that didn’t end well and i really badly hurt someone and was lucky I didn’t get in more trouble. I’m a fat old man now but if i have to defend myself from harm and fighting fire with fire is my only option left, I won’t hesitate and I won’t stop until I think they won’t pose a threat of harm to me. It might sound ridiculously aggressive but when someone is trying to hurt you and is actually doing so you’ll do almost anything to negate/stop that.
Be in control, losing it sometimes means people die/get really badly hurt. It’s most definitely a situation you do not want to be in because there’s rarely a winner in reality even if one physically bests another, men hate backing down/admitting they are wrong (or worse can’tsee they’re wrong) so you get the verbal ping pong. I’d always rather leave it at that, move on and forget about it.
‘…in a bid to knock him off
‘…in a bid to knock him off.’ ??? and succeeding.
Where’s the assault charge?
This is a scenario much
This is a scenario much repeated. Driver, apparenly in such a hurry that they can’t wait to pass safely, but when remonstrated with, has time to stop and berate cyclists. Perhaps a pychological test might be more appropriate than an extended test in two years.
burtthebike wrote:
And not to forget their ability to see my “ninja” black middle finger raised in critisism of their attrocious driving in their wing/rear view mirror.
I have just bought a Fyy6
I have just bought a Fyy6 rear facing camera and light. Its flaky in controlling but it does the job.
I had a incident last week heading out toward the Surrey Hills with a mate when a driver drove across the the wrong side of the road and almost hit me, parking in the laybe just past me. As he did so he shouted something at me. I was at the time 15m behind my mate a meter from the edge of the road. No kerb as we were in relative countryside. On a very wide road (main Portsmouth Road) which was almost empty.
I went back to the car where the numpty and his two mates were getting out to go fishing. As I got close I had every name and obsenity shouted at me. Bottom line I was told I was two abreast, I was not, I was told I was on the wrong side of the road, I was not. I kept super calm through this and was on my own with three angry and very agressive guys who were much bigger than me.
Cut a long story short I had not fitted my GoPro that I was bought for exactly this reason, to be fair the battery life is so woeful I have sort of given up with it. I reported to the Police and they came back to me. This incident is now been reported and collated if he does it again.
and my point is… The police would have pressed charges if I had evidence he said. So camera front and back when riding around here….