A triathlete who hit a horse during the cycling section of last year’s Royal Windsor Triathlon has been ordered to pay £926.
Video footage from the event, which took place on June 17, showed a number of cyclists closely passing a horse and rider on both sides at significant speed. Iain Plumb made contact as he passed.
Plumb was subsequently given a life ban from events organised by Human Race and the BBC reports that he has now been found guilty of riding without due consideration following a trial at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court.
PC Peter Dorling, of Thames Valley Police, said: “Plumb’s cycling fell well below what is expected for a cyclist. Thankfully the horse was not injured.”
Plumb was fined £216 and ordered to pay £50 in compensation to the horse-rider, a victim surcharge of £30 and court costs of £630.
19 thoughts on “Cyclist who hit horse during Royal Windsor Triathlon found guilty of riding without due consideration”
Good!!! Bellend…
Good!!! Bellend…
Well deserved, but still less
Well deserved, but still less than many drivers get for hitting a cyclist and causing long lasting injuries.
£926, guilty of riding
£926, guilty of riding without due care and attention and banned for life from events; how many people did he kill?
Seriously, the difference in punishment between cyclists and drivers for similar offences seems to be widening. I’m sure that if a driver had skimmed a horse and rider they would have been fined £50 if it ever got to court of course, which doesn’t seem likely.
You could literally kill a cyclist with a car and receive less punishment.
And for the avoidance of doubt, yes, he was incredibly stupid and inconsiderate.
burtthebike wrote:
I wonder whether its also affected by what the average magistrate or judge thinks about equestrians/horses vs what they think about cyclists?
brooksby wrote:
Defence lawyers no exactly what to say to tap into the widespread options on cyclists as law breaking, risk taking, unstable, all over the road holigans, even if this has no real evidence. There have been lots of posts on social media about Giving cyclists 1.5m when overtaking, with the response on why should drivers when cyclists don’t while filtering at traffic lights or in jams. If all the posts are to be believed car body shops are inundated with vehicles under repair from damage by overtaking cyclists. I doubt this is the case but it is propergated as such with the odd rare case as evidence and soon becomes popular opinion.
brooksby wrote:
Horse crowd = ruling class, jolly hockysticks etc.
Cyclists = peasants, getting way of Range Rover etc.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-40134629
Not even a £50 fine.
Mungecrundle wrote:
Lost it on a corner, wrong side of the road, hit 2 horses throwing them and their riders to the ground, and he got a “Driver Awareness Course” ?? HOW ?
A DAC is “Aimed at motorists who have been involved in a minor collision – where the driving is careless or inconsiderate”, surely his driving was FAR below the standard expected, and this was not a “minor collision”.
StuInNorway wrote:
But it was wet and slippery, so it wasn’t his fault. How could he possibly know that roads get slippery when wet? I’m sure it’s news to many drivers. Perhaps there should be a public campaign to alert drivers of this hidden danger.
Seriously WTAF. Cyclist brushes horse, has book flung at him, driver knocks horse and rider down, not even prosecuted.
We need that 2014 review now.
I don’t condone his behaviour
I don’t condone his behaviour but this is yet more evidence of people riding bikes being held to higher standards than people who drive cars.
When I reported being lightly grazed, but uninjured, by a close-passing car, plod didn’t give a shit.
yep massive numpty but £926
yep massive numpty but £926 is very very worrying.
A Nottinghamshire driver who hit a cyclist at a roundabout, causing serious life-altering injuries, has received six penalty points and a £200 fine.
He was given a life ban from
He was given a life ban from events organised by Human Race, a bit harsh. Do we know if aliens ride bikes?
Organon wrote:
ET?
burtthebike wrote:
I like the aero “helmet” on this one
What a bunch of idiots.
What a bunch of idiots.
Look how close they get – could spook the horse.
Stay as far right and move in way after you overtake.
Undertaking or close pass by a car and you’d be moaning.
Fish_n_Chips wrote:
There were many posts on here stating the cyclist was a nob head – as much for the fact that he didn’t think he’d done any wrong. If you watch the whole clip, some were in error by being so close to the wheel in front and seeing said horse late. There’s even question marks over the suitability of TTs on the road etc.
However, you’ll see the underlying sarcasm in the comments due to the way drivers are treated. Dozens of deaths on British roads caused by dangerous drivers including texting, in unfit cars, in an unfit state, leaving the scene, apparently not knowing they’d hit another human being. These obviously dangerous incidents usually result in them being labelled careless and fined half the amount of the cyclist in this instance and being allowed to continue to drive.
See the problem?
Fish_n_Chips wrote:
As alansmurphy says, no on on this site attempted to condone or defend the stupidity of the rider(s) in this incident, but we had that conversation a while ago.
This thread picks up on the simple fact that the same day this story was posted there was a second story about a driver being given a community order as punishment for killing a cyclist.
Put the two incidents/penalties side by side and it only emphasise the differing standards to which drivers and cyclists are held in incidents that are their fault. Hence the sarcasm, cynicism and generally snide comments in this thread.
A motorist high on
A motorist high on cannabis who killed two pedestrians was ordered to pay £105 costs – no prison sentence was given.
kingleo wrote:
A link would have been useful.