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Dublin taxi driver and cyclist (via Streamable)Dublin taxi driver who drove on wrong side of road at cyclist claims man had damaged his wing mirror
The Dublin taxi driver caught on camera driving on the wrong side of the road at a cyclist this week says he wanted to stop the man because he’d just broken his wing mirror.
The footage shows both the cyclist and the taxi driver run a red light before the taxi driver veers towards the cyclist a little further on.
When the cyclist moves to a cycle lane on the opposite side of the road, the taxi driver also steers across, braking in front of him in an apparent attempt to block his path.
Buzz.ie reports that the taxi driver involved was Felix Ukachukwu, who claims the cyclist had just smashed his wing mirror.
“I was at a taxi rank in Stephens Green. I was coming to Talbot Street. So I came to Talbot Street, pulled on the side to drop off the girl and then a cyclist that was passing stretched out his hand and smashed my side mirror,” he said.
“I dropped the girl and followed him. He didn’t stop. So I followed him, I tried to get his attention and there was no police. So he went through a red light, (and so did 
hoping that the police would see me and say what’s going on here.”
The video ends with Ukachukwu manoeuvring onto the pavement because he’s found himself stuck at a junction on the wrong side of the road. The cyclist rides off round the corner.
“I was really infuriated,” added Ukachukwu, admitting, “I was willing to go any length to get him.”
He also claims the cyclist was taunting him. “When I passed him on the North Circular Road I got him on the next street and he said ‘you think you can catch me, you can’t catch me.’”
The Garda Press Office said that it was aware of the incident from media enquiries but the matter had not been reported to officers.
“In order for An Garda Síochána to investigate, a complaint has to be submitted,” a Garda spokeswoman said.
Dr Mike McKillen of Dublin Cycling Campaign told The Irish Times that gardai had the option of acting on the video but “they don’t want to”.
“Every time we meet with the Road Safety Authority (RSA) and the Garda Road Policing Unit we keep emphasising that you can act on [video] evidence. Just do it. But they don’t want to, they seem to be not interested in protecting cyclists,” he said.
“They’re prepared to stand on a street corner and hand out high vis vests and tell cyclists they should be wearing a helmet,” he added.
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Charge them both, surely it's criminal damage for the cyclist and attempted murder for the taxi driver!
“They’re prepared to stand on a street corner and hand out high vis vests and tell cyclists they should be wearing a helmet,” he added.
With such retarded victim-blaming sh*te from the garda, sounds as if it's every cyclist for themselves.
That anyone can make such a blatant threatening 7 determined attempt on someone's life and get away with it is just...
....those cyclists...they're always asking for it aren't they!
taxi bloke: “I was willing to go any length to get him.”
vonhelmet
"If the police keep up with failing to act, at some point people are going to take the law into their own hands."
For sure
“In order for An Garda Síochána to investigate, a complaint has to be submitted,” a Garda spokeswoman said.
Ah that's why punishment beatings are ignored...
Wrong side of the border. Punishment beatings are predominantly used by the unionist paramilitaries making it a PSNI issue (republican groups tend to favour knee capping).
Perhaps his passenger can give an unbiased description of how this started
So the cyclist took the wing mirror off after taxi man pulled in to drop a girl off? I wouldn’t mind betting he pulled in without looking and cut the cyclist off.
It does make me wonder what the taxi driver had done to the cyclist to elicit breaking a wing mirror? It would require effort, hurt their hand, I don't know about anyone else but I have an escalating scale of outrage. If I didn't I'd wear myself out. Got to save something for the ride.
From the Buzz.ie story ...
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Err, no. I would try and get the fuck out of Dodge. You've just stated that you're angry and will go to "any length". You're armed with a tonne and a half of metal.
If I thought you posed a real risk to me I might even run a red light to try and put distance between us, or cycle against the direction of traffic, in the hope that you wouldn't follow.
Well, that reasoning from Mr Taxi Driver makes it all right then!
If I had smashed someone’s mirror off, I don’t think I’d go to the police to complain if they then tried to run me off... Precisely because they’d then come forward with something like this and it would come back to bite me. I call BS on Mr Toad’s story.
Save the mirror smashing for when you're on a motorbike. You can at least get away at high speed and not get run over.
With motorbike gloves on, you won't smash your hand into the bargain.
But you can be identified from the reg plate...
If the police keep up with failing to act, at some point people are going to take the law into their own hands.
“I was willing to go any length to get him.”
Both mirrors appear to be in intact towards the end of the video clip.
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I'm definitely not defending the taxi driver but the buzz.ie story/photo shows him pointing at missing cover on the front side oh his mirror. I've had something knock my mirror cover off but from behind it looks like the mirror is intact.
Fair enough. Veer Away.
Those pesky cyclists: always reaching out and... just smashing stuff with their comedy oversized Hulk hands and Titanic upper-body strength. You're lucky he didn't really mean it, Felix - you'd have no Prius left!
I'd like to give that cyclist a hearty He-Manslap on his Herculean trapezius.
and just because we like smashing them, no other reason. It's why we like it when drivers get really close, gives us the chance to do one of our favourite things.