A video posted to Vimeo today shows an incident in Stockwell, South London during which an Audi driver appears to have rammed a cyclist off the road,
While that part of the incident itself was not captured on camera, shortly beforehand the driver had been throwing objects from his car at the cyclists, who were on Cycle Superhighway 7.
Stunned in Stockwell from Nick Finegold on Vimeo.
He then drives off up the road, and when the rider of the bike the camera is attached to catches up, the motorist has turned left and is reversing back towards the cyclists using the Cycle Superhighway, though he stops short of them.
It does appear though that he hit one cyclist, who is shown picking up his pannier and bike and is gesturing at the driver, while other riders advise him to leave the driver – who shouts “F8ck you” a number of times – alone.
The motorist appears to drive away but instead does a three-point turn and drives aggressively at the cyclist and the other riders who had stopped.
He then reverses up the side road at which point a siren can be heard, with the cyclists applauding, and a uniformed police officer can be seen walking up the road the driver headed up, with the cyclist at the centre of the incident then wheeling his bike in the same direction.
Nick Finegold, who posted the video to Vimeo, told us: “As I arrived the driver was throwing bottles and cans through his window at the cyclist in red, shouting to keep away from his car,
“I had been previously riding with the group and all appeared to be responsible riders.
“The driver was getting more aggressive as the cyclist stood there in disbelief of what was happening.
“At that point he drove off trying to ram the cyclist in red. He drove at speed up the road taking the first left, this point was slightly out of sight for me, but I know at that time it’s very very busy with riders on the CS7.
“As I approached the junction where he turned left, a second cyclist was picking his bike from the floor, he states he was completely cut-up, I don’t know if he was struck.
“The driver proceeds to make a 3-point turn and mount the pavement using his car as ram towards the cyclists that has stopped to help.
“There was also a mother and children having to take evasive action from the car on the pavement.”
He added: “A passing unmarked police car stopped and an officer investigated, at this point you can see the car reversing at great speed to escape, I am not sure whether the police gave chase.”
Update (3/8/18): A second video of the incident has surfaced, shot by one of the cyclists involved in the earlier confrontation at traffic lights.
The driver can also clearly be heard claiming that he is driving a stolen car.




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74 thoughts on “Video: Motorist drives aggressively at London cyclists, knocking one over”
Wow, someone needs their
Wow, someone needs their driving license revoking and car crushing ASAP.
Predictions on the punishment
Predictions on the punishment please. I’m going for a driver awareness course thing, plus a £25 fine.
Beecho wrote:
That’s a bit harsh, surely? No need for a fine.
/sarcasm
CygnusX1 wrote:
The driver will probably get an hour’s counselling for his anger management with tea and biscuits, soft music, nice comfy chair and a head massage.
Beecho wrote:
Can they make cyclists do driver awareness courses?
Beecho wrote:
…….More likely a driver awareness course and a £25 gift token for having been upset by those nasty cyclists.
<affects innocence>
p.s What make of car is it?
<innocence>
had not one, but three
had not one, but three drivers force their way through a a restriction where I had the right of way… apparently, as far as they’re concerned, I’m a mere person on a bicycle, not an oncoming vehicle with the right of way.
Miracles never cease. Car is
Miracles never cease. Car is actually insured on askmid. Thought it would be the typical pool crime car.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Might the car soon be uninsured after this little episode?
That’s absolutely shocking,
That’s absolutely shocking, hopefully the police are pushed into giving a proper sentence to the little shit.
I’m glad to hear one of the cyclists telling plod what the driver should be charged with, sounded like this place.
That is an assault, at least
That is an assault, at least one, possibly multiple, not a driving offence, although he committed quite a few of those as well. Hopefully the driver will be identified, tried and found guilty and locked up for a suitable length of time, and has his licence removed forever as he’s clearly not emotionally stable enough to be allowed in charge of a machine that kills in a public place.
All a terrible
All a terrible misunderstanding I’m sure.
Hot day, stuff expands and probably just popped out of the window. Infact I’m pretty sure that some of those cyclists were outside the designated cycle lane, so really they have no-one but themselves to blame. We didn’t see why the cyclist on the pavement (what were they doing there in the first place?) was picking his bike up. I expect the Audi driver had simply stopped to offer assistance. Not driving aggressively at all just a bit confused then looked like he sped off backwards was probably just camera distortion. Bad language dubbed in later to make something out of nothing.
Or some bollocks…
Looks like a potential
Looks like a potential terrorists incident to me, hopefully the police and the cps will be treating it as such.
Housecathst wrote:
That’s what the Daily Mail would say too.
don simon wrote:
That would totally depend on the skin tone of the driver.
A case where use of the D
A case where use of the D lock would be self defense to a driver attempting to run several people over.
hirsute wrote:
Useful for locking his head to a lamp post.
Worry about that later, just
Worry about that later, just get those knees jerking first.
Looked like and arsehole driver to me.
Don’t foregt to actually
Don’t foregt to actually report this: go to https://www.met.police.uk/report/report-a-road-traffic-incident/. Also Twitter @metcc.
It may be neccessary to take this off social media while it is being dealt with (or not dealt with).
Can I ask a favour of roadcc? Showing these videos doesn’t actually help in itself – we all know what can and does happen out there. Why don’t you report to Police Service in question , and that post online if police do not follow up? That way you may actually help and not impede curt case because video was in the public domain.
I know you’re not just in it to upset people and want to change things by getting something done about such vile law breaking.
Aren’t you?
ChairRDRF wrote:
well you say that but I can almost guarantee there will be an article within the next month highlighting some report/survey questioning why there arent enough people biking to work, possibly on a national cycle to work day, and if prior examples are anything to go on the wisdom of crowds usually comes up with answers like wearing a helmet messes up my hair or there arent enough showers at work, England isnt Holland and so on , not “we all know what can and does happen out there” when a driver, and it had to be an Audi didnt it, behaves like this.
so yes Id like these kinds of videos to get the maximum publicity so that go viral and every idiot who drives like this slowly recognises alot of cyclists now have cameras and those drivers will be called out for it.
I dont know why the police are concerned publishing the video would jeopardise a case, given lots of successful criminal investigations involve footage shown on national tv,sometimes live as it happens, long before they get to court.
Awavey wrote:
I don’t think posting these videos will deter the kind of people who do this. Publicity for succesful prosecutions might.
The general advice I get from police and lawyers is that it is better to not show the videos until after a verdict has been arived at. If police fail to act on video it might be an idea to put it up then.
ChairRDRF wrote:
The wide broadcasting of a video showing two triathletes scaring a horse didn’t stop the police investigating that apparently terrible crime.
Seconded, I worked for GMP
Seconded, I worked for GMP until last year and regularly spoke to the cops who dealt with cyclist’s camera footage. Their advice was to keep it off social media until they, and potentially the CPS, have had a look at the footage first.
StraelGuy wrote:
The met ask you to post any footage you have to back up your complaint on youtube so they can look at it and then ask you to remove it if they issue a notice of intended prosecution.
gmac101 wrote:
You can upload to YouTube without broadcasting it to all and sundry on Facebook, Twitter, road.cc and so on. You can set videos so they can only be viewed by people you give the link to, so they’re not findable by searching.
So yeah, maybe they ask you to use YouTube, but that’s not the same as the wide broadcast that these videos seem to get.
StraelGuy wrote:
Have there actually been any cases that have been thrown out due to not getting a fair trial after gopro/dash/helmet/whatever cam footage was widly seen?
I suspect not.
CPS and others being unnecessarily cautious and unreasonably preventing cases going forward.
Publicising these incidents via footage might make public opinion change.
Does anyone else think the
Does anyone else think the littering might be taken more seriously than the driving offences?
Is it me or is the driver
Is it me or is the driver barely able to see over the wheel?
Could be aggressive midget syndrome. Also known as Time Bandit syndrome.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
That’s a tad unnecessary. I know you don’t intend it, but there’s no need to insult people due to their lack of height. The idiot in the car deserves some abuse due to their behaviour alone.
(Also, the word midget is not recommended – dwarf is a preferred term).
Tell you whats truly shocking
Tell you whats truly shocking, one of those cyclists wasn’t wearing a helmet!!!
I think that driver has some
I think that driver has some serious issues to deal with. Possibly wit the help of valium or its equivalent (do people still take valium?). I have NEVER seen such an appalling and aggressive piece of footage on this site, and that even includes that bloke that fell over trying to kick someone. I would love to know how this all pans out, but suspect in our modern age of “what’s the next thing, again?” we’ll never know…
With all the flag waving from
With all the flag waving from G winning the Tour… I wish he’d come out and talk about how cyclists are treated on the road.
Ian Allardyce wrote:
Not sure it would do much good when even spoof news websites putting the boot in will be treated as gospel:
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/bloody-cyclist-going-too-fast-again-20180730175787
http://newsthump.com/2018/07/30/geraint-thomas-wins-tour-de-france-without-indicating-once/
http://newsthump.com/2018/07/30/uk-braces-itself-for-plague-of-flabby-men-in-cycling-shorts-following-geraint-thomas-victory/
https://rochdaleherald.co.uk/2018/07/30/france/
LastBoyScout wrote:
I thought the first two articles were taking a humourous swipe at drivers rather than cyclists.
Ian Allardyce wrote:
We could get a F1 driver to come out and talk about how cr@p many amateur motorists behave on the road, too (element of sarcasm there
).
Geraint is a professional sportsman whose sport happens to be cycling, I wouldn’t expect him to necessarily ride a bike in real life, or to talk it up. Chris Boardman is an exception, because I think he’s joined the “proper spokesman” camp.
Just a polite enquiry for a
Just a polite enquiry for a friend; how is a motorist supposed to turn left across a CS lane on an unlit junction with oncoming cyclists form both directions not giving way? Could be a cause of potential friction.
Organon wrote:
With patience.
Motorists seem to have lots of patience for sitting in queues of (motorised) traffic, but are unwilling to wait a minute or two for a reasonable gap in cyclist traffic.
hawkinspeter wrote:
So, so much. Not even a minute or two – a delay of a handful of seconds can be enough to send them into a frothing rage.
hawkinspeter wrote:
…before turning into the next queue of traffic.
must. pass. cyclists. to wait longer. in. more. traffic.
Organon wrote:
No need for friction at all. It’s easy. Indicate in advance, look, wait until it’s clear, then move. If the traffic is incessant, at some point someone will see you indicating, take pity on you and the cars waiting behind you, and wave you through. Then everyone goes their separate ways. All happy.
Morgoth985 wrote:
So, the same way as trying to turn across any other lane of traffic.
brooksby wrote:
exactly. I get that it was a polite question and all, but it speaks volumes that it was ever thought necessary
Hawkins – maybe a squirrel
Hawkins – maybe a squirrel was driving the car?
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
We may never know.
#SquirrelTruth
Hope they don’t forget to
Hope they don’t forget to fine him for littering
There are cameras everywhere.
There are cameras everywhere.
a1white wrote:
What I am supposed to be watching in 2 – or is it to send me to sleep?
hirsute wrote:
It took me two cans of Red Bull to sit through it, but around 3:40 the cyclist pulls alongside the driver’s window and words are exchanged. Couldn’t see anything prior to this.
At 7:50 is the close pass/deliberate swipe at the cyclist in the bus lane, and from 8:30 the altercaton at the corner where he drives on the pavement.
a1white wrote:
That’ll be minute 2 from the first video and 7:45 in the second. Not everyone wants to see sweaty bankers on their commute. But it might be worth seeking the sit up and beg passing the fully lycrad dude.
I just watched the second
I just watched the second video. Is it me or, if they caught the driver, do you think its likely they’re going to get done more for the littering, the speeding, and for driving in a bus lane, than for threatening behaviour and seeing hiow close they can come to killing London commuters…?
LOL at plod! Guy’s in a CAR,
LOL at plod! Guy’s in a CAR, they’re in a CAR. So plod gets out and goes for a wander and the guy DRIVES off. No wonder criminals never get caught.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
The police car does go up the road after him after the officer on the passenger side gets out though.
Utterly astonishing behaviour
Utterly astonishing behaviour.
Probably an anti-doping
Probably an anti-doping protest against the LiveStrong t-shirt 😉
Black Audi :rollseyes:
Get Fucked I Own Your
Get Fucked I Own Your Zwifting Arses numberplate too…
Thanks don simon and CygnusX1
Thanks don simon and CygnusX1 for the timeline.
what i don’t understand from
what i don’t understand from watching the video is, why is no one confronting this idiot?
he shoots through the bus lane and when he’s questioned then he starts throwing stuff out of his window. that would’ve been a starter that he needed calming down.
there’s an abundance of cyclists around, one guy has clearly been knocked off and is threatening the others. crazy behaviour but surely there’s enough people there to confront him.
Noelieboy wrote:
Probably something to do with the tin can he’s in which gives him superpowers, such as megacrush which can kill 10 cyclists in one mighty throttle push.
Noelieboy wrote:
Quite simply – he’s armed with two tonnes of lethal metal, and they’re not.
CygnusX1 wrote:
And, that fun possibiity of his carrying either a knife or a gun…
CygnusX1 wrote:
And it’s an Audi!
CygnusX1 wrote:
True, but that’s only if you’re in direct line of sight and if he’s in the car. if you stood next to his door he wouldn’t be able to do anything.
Noelieboy wrote:
Nothing apart from opening the door and belting you with a hundred kilos of sheet steel.
vonhelmet wrote:
Don’t give him time to open the door. Go through the window with your D-lock. Look, you can all beat off whilst attacking me all you want. This man was driving a car directly at unprotected cyclists and pedestrians. What will it take before you say ‘enough is fucking enough’?
I had a similar situation about two years ago. Driver had almost wiped me out – unintentionally but recklessly the first time – when I remonstrated quite loudly. I was to the right of his car and slightly forward of the driver, and he revved the engine and put on hard right lock to aim his car at me. The front right just touched my pedal, enough to cause me to stumble. I dropped the bike and took out my D-lock from my belt. As I went for the swing towards his side window, he gave it beans and by the time my D-lock ‘contacted’, it was on the driver’s side C pillar. That pissed him off and he screeched to a halt, but as I was walking after him, quite obviously intent on going for round two, he shouted obscenities out of the window and scarpered.
There comes a time when inaction on the part of the civil power means you have to do something. You know that, don’t you? Do you suffer getting threatened and assaulted all your life, or do you say ‘enough’?
Noelieboy wrote:
Reminded me of that sexual assault video from Paris earlier this week. Plenty of blokes stood up and remonstrated with the guy, none of them cliffed him.
D-lock, it’s the only way to be sure.
kil0ran wrote:
i bet if you took off and dropped a d-lock from orbit it’d make a nice hole…
Noelieboy wrote:
You’re either a new cyclist or just very naive.
Nutter in car v sensible people on bikes is only ever going to favour one winner.
Why did PC Plod plod down the
Why did PC Plod plod down the road on foot after a fast retreating car rather than stay in his car and drive? You’d almost think he didn’t want to be bothered with having to fill in all the paperwork that goes with actually aprehending someone.
Tony wrote:
Probably trying to get a look at the number plate. He is almost certainly not a class one driver so not allowed to go of chasing him. Very few officers are even allowed to do that, and people are shouting that there is film of it.
Story updated on the beeb:
Story updated on the beeb: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45079207
The second that someone
The second that someone apprehended unlawful physical violence, the common law offence of assault was complete. You do not need to wait for someone to hit you before defending yourself. What always amazes me about situations like this is that all the cyclists just stood around gawping. You take the D-lock from your frame – you *arte* carrying a D-lock, aren’t you? – you walk over and you smash it into his temple – going through the side window if you need to. Please don’t waste my time with the bran muffin-munching hipster crap about this being ‘excessive force’. The test on reasonable force in the courts is (in the main) subjective (R v Williams (G) 78 Cr App R 276) and R. v Oatbridge, 94 Cr App R 367), and someone driving a 1.5 ton car at you is most definitely in the category of placing your life in imminent danger.
Instead, you all stand around like pussies, as if you’re waiting for divine intervention.
And then you wonder why drivers feel emboldened.
Go big or go home
Go big or go home
hawkinspeter wrote:
That unprotected trigger looks quite dangerous, could have someone’s eye out.
don simon wrote:
Good point – safety first!