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Justice (Lonpicman, Wikimedia Commons)Birmingham road rage driver ordered to pay £25 compensation after helmet cam conviction
A Birmingham motorist has been ordered to pay a cyclist £25 in compensation after pleading guilty to a public order offence following a road rage incident last August, which was filmed on the rider’s helmet camera.
The news comes less than a fortnight after we reported on the conviction of a London driver who had verbally threatened cycling lawyer Martin Porter in an incident similarly captured on film.
The Birmingham Mail reports that 38-year old IT consultant Rob Styles was cycling home from work along Pershore Road, Stirchley, when the incident occurred at 6.25pm on the evening of 25 August.
As the camera footage shows, a car pulled up alongside him, halting on the pavement, with the driver, 55-year-old Robert Johnson from Selly Oak.
He then getting out and unleashing a tirade peppered with four letter words at Mr Styles, asking him, “Do you want a f*cking fight?”
Mr Styles subsequently uploaded the video to YouTube.
The motorist pleaded guilty to a public order offence at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, and besides being ordered to pay Mr Styles £25 compensation, was also ordered to pay £105 costs.
Mr Styles said: “Cyclists have a right to be on the road. It was pretty scary, I thought I was going to get hit.”
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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you nned to go onto google then mmmmmrob ..theres about 8 videos, a poor council worker gets a good viewing
A) the tattoos looked re-inked to me, not new. Looks like team tats.
B) No I dont agree this is giving us a bad light. He's reacting to a stressful situation, not entirely knowing what exactly is going to happen. In that situation you want to stop people in their tracks and if it makes this driver refrain from giving him a smack then fair enough.
Even if the rider took to the streets with his bits hanging out and set fire to schools with a maniacal cackle it wouldnt put US in a bad light because we all stand as individuals in society with individual responsibilities to a given circumstance, and leading to individual consequence should it go wrong or we lead it to be.
Hah, look how uncomfortable the idiot's Son is in the passenger seat. Priceless.
Well, £25 actually.
25 quid compensation? That sort of abuse is enough to put people off cycling for good which would really impair their quality of life - I'd say that called for a lot more than £25 which is about a third of a tank of petrol.
The guy in front's saddle was too low.
Yeah, and his legs are too tattoo'd, too.
PR.
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