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Daisy Abela tweetDaisy Abela follows in Emma Way's footsteps with tweets of intentional collision with cyclist
After the news two weeks ago that Emma Way was to face charges of driving without due care and attention and leaving the scene of a collision after her #bloodycyclists outburst on twitter, Daisy Abela seems to be treading a worryingly similar path after tweeting today that she intentionally ran over a cylist after an altercation.
It's been noted before that a disproportionate amount of the anger towards cyclists on twitter – as collated by the twitter account @cyclehatred – comes from young female drivers. There have been different theories put forward as to why this might be so; everything from a feeling of vulnerability to the simple fact of young females being over-represented on twitter. But once again it's a young female driver involved, this time seemingly admitting to deliberately running down a cyclist.
She also states in her timeline that she was "definitely still drunk" and of course that she hates cyclists.
The altercation seemingly cost her a wing mirror.
Emma Way's case was investigated by Norfolk Police after the cyclist, Toby Hockley, came forward to say he'd been knocked off his bike whilst taking part in a sportive. The tweet subsequently went viral, with Ms Way appearing on local radio and BBC breakfast television to apologise. For the tweet, we might add, not the incident or the attitude.
Daisy Abela seems to hail from near Bromley in Greater London. So if you were involved in an altercation with a female driver anywhere in that vicinity this morning, that ended with you being run down, it might be worth getting in touch with your local constabulary.
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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Over 4 million people with nothing better to do than watch that? What has the human race come to?
I honestly have no idea what relevance that had to anything....if he mentions her I fell asleep before I got there.
Hopefully the police will follow this up.
I think he posted it because Daisy leaves a comment on his video and he left a comment on her facebook page - shows that Daisy is probably a real person and not just a trolling account with a post intended to provoke a reaction
Just to be clear: it's not _my_ video!
Don't hate our new forms of expression... actually embrace them! It allows us to observe the morons of the world and capture their stupidity in time - forever! "I was drunk and ran someone over - weeeeeee!"... those are gold! It's not everyday the police can catch these fools but these forms of media help. My favorite are the pictures they take of themselves for 15mins of fame... yep, daddy must be really proud of you Daisy... dumbass.
I didn't even watch the video beyond the first 3 seconds. The relevance is that a commentator with the name "Daisy Abella" (who may or may not be the same as "Daisy Abela") commented that it would be great to "run someone over and got[sic] them on tape".
Bah, was in primary position on narrow road the other day. Middle aged woman barges past, gets stuck at pelican crossing after nearly failing to break for pedestrian. When questioned about why she passed unsafely and cut me off, she queries my primary position and says "you don't need that much room. I cycle more than I drive". There's no helping some people...
Yeah, some wingnut drivers on twitter should be locked up. Mostly seem to be kids under 24 or so.
Apparently the adult brain - particularly the part associated with decision making - doesn't fully develop until the age of 24, which explains why young adults tend to act foolishly.
There's definitely a case here for raising the age at which you can drive to 24, but then the government wouldn't make huge money in taxes from all those boy racers in their souped-up Corsas.
This woman is ok sat inside her steel cage, probably sat shatting herself waiting for the knock on the door at home in her cave now.
I despair, but am not surprised that it is another young woman.
I get pissed at drivers not giving enough room occasionally when they think they can get past, but to actually try and kill another human being? After all what do they think will happen if they deliberately hit a cyclist?
It is remarkable how incredibly dumb some people are. Let's hope she'll be expecting a knock from the Police very shortly.
'purposefully'...'still drunk'...this is about to get interesting. How bloody thick are these people?
"Just robbed a bank LOL"
Lets hope if its Sussex police, then don't ask twitters opinion like I've just seen from one of their officers....
If you want to be truly shocked, go and look at some of the conversation's he is having around this memory card....
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If its Bromley, it will be the Met that cover that area.
*pulls up chair & offers popcorn round*
Should a good 48 hours
If its a troll it is surprisingly well constructed and delivered. I'd check-back on the responders who may not have locked down their twitter accounts.
It powerfully shows how fast the twitter community can move to deal with issues like this.
Well, at least one of her friends on Twitter seems to be an equally appalling driver:
FFS, driving is a privilege not a right; how do these people qualify?
She did say, prior to deleting, that "still drunk" was a "figure of speech". New one to me...
We had a young female driver in Manchester yesterday bragging on twitter how she likes to drive too close to cyclists to 'make them angry'.
Needless to say within minutes the cycling community descended on her hard, so much so she deleted her account within a couple of hours.
I dont think non-cyclists realise how pissed off we are about this and the twitter cycling community is getting pretty vociferous in its pursuit of these loons (even if the police arent)
Don't reckon. no 'only joking' response, she deleted the tweets and protected her account.
Indeed - more of the Tweets here:
http://imgur.com/a/oC3lv
Trollin'
Surely?
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