A man on Teeside has been injured after a rope stretched across a cycle path on a seaside promenade caused him to be thrown off his bike.
The incident happened on Tuesday evening between Hartlepool and Seaton Carew according to Teeside Live.
The victim, aged 20, hit the rope at chest height while riding along the path at approximately 11pm and sustained injurties to his chest and upper arms,
The shocking incident, which occurred at about 11pm on Tuesday, was close to the public toilets along from Newburn Bridge and left him with injuries across his chest and upper arms.
A spokeswoman for Cleveland Police commented: “Officers believe that there were people at the location at the time and are asking them to come forward with information.”
Anyone who has information is asked to call PC Alexander Blackwell from Cleveland Police on the non-emergency number 101, Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 or visit www.crimestoppers-uk.org.
13 thoughts on “Rider injured after he was knocked off bike by rope strung across prom cycle path”
There have been a number of
There have been a number of incidents like this, but I don’t think any of them have resulted in prosecution as it is obviously pretty difficult to find those responsible. Is it just kids who think it’s funny or is it die-hard petrol heads who really hate cyclists?
Maybe when someone dies as a result things might change, but why do we have to wait for that.
To be honest I think that
To be honest I think that many of these cases are kids who don’t think it through. Can’t recall doing this but as a kid its the sort of thing I might do. In those days it would have been to nail a mate in the woods rather than anything malicious.
Of course maybe some of these cases are more intentional.
Can I ask you to clarify what
Can I ask you to clarify what you mean by “nail a mate in the woods” please?
Pushing50 wrote:
Thanks, I was wondering the same thing.
Pushing50 wrote:
i think the meaning is innocent. i hope
a bit like pegging a mate means something very different now than when i was in the scouts, and pegging each other was fun.. oh
See also https://www.news.com
See also https://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/qld-hose-prank-leaves-cyclist-injured/news-story/a448956b2b20172e310d7e902644907c which the lovely newspaper decided to call “a prank” despite the cyclist going to hospital with “…broken collarbone and several fractured ribs.”
Nail. In some way cause grief
Nail. In some way cause grief to a mate. Tripping, shoving into ponds, pushing off branches . Pain would be a bonus but not enough to stop him trying the same in revenge. Sticks into front wheels were fun but best done when playing cavalry and stick was a sword substitute. All harmless fun with no thought to conseqences.
Thinked “nailed it” as replacement for “got it”
Not saying that all these incidents are innocent of course, just that I bet some are just ill though out fun.
Nailing your mate in the
Nailing your mate in the woods?
These incidents are worrying.
These incidents are worrying. There are some nutters out there who hate cyclists. And there are teenagers who may do rash (stupid) things without thinking them through and considering the risks.
Just imagine if someone who
Just imagine if someone who *really* hated motorists laid a stinger across some road, or even across a motorway? I wonder if that would be written off as a prank?
brooksby wrote:
I’ve had a bag of flour dropped off a bridge over a motorway as I was passing underneath… luckily it missed me…
I was watching a programme
I was watching a programme about the history of the High Speed Train (the intercity 125), it was relatively common to tie a house brick to a peice of string and dangle it off bridges at the drivers window height. It was one reason the HST was designed with bullet proof glass in the drivers window.
ktache wrote:
For many years it was a ‘thing’ for youths in the area around Prestonpans (just to the east of Edinburgh) to chuck bricks and stones and lumps of concrete at the trains on the Edinburgh mainline. I recall being on one and seeing something flying towards the window just behind me and landing witha thump. The window didn’t break but another one in a carriage further back did. The train staff then got everyone out of the carriage and moved them forward (luckily it wasn’t full) and we carried on at reduced speed until Newcastle where we waited for a bit and the carriage was removed. I still think about how lucky I was that that window behind me didn’t break.
The brick throwing stopped after a few years.