Police are appealing for witnesses after a teenage cyclist was allegedly assaulted and left bruised by an enraged driver who confronted the boy after clipping him with his wing mirror on a narrow country lane.
According to EssexLive, the incident occurred on Saturday 10 September, between 12.15pm and 1pm, on the Starling’s Green road near Clavering, Essex.
As the teenager was riding his bike on the narrow road, he was struck by a motorist’s wing mirror. After hitting the cyclist, the driver – a man reported to be in his 50s – turned his Mercedes around and confronted the youngster.
The motorist then dragged him from his bike and threw him to the ground, before tossing the bike into a nearby ditch and driving away. The teenager allegedly suffered bruising in the apparent road rage-induced assault.
The suspect has been described as a clean-shaven man in his late 50s with a stocky build and grey hair. He was wearing a neck chain, blue shirt and blue jogging bottoms at the time of the incident.
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“If you have any information, dash cam or other footage in relation to this incident, then please get in contact with us,” a spokesperson for Essex Police said.
“You can let us know by submitting a report on our website or by using our online Live Chat service available Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) between 10am-9pm.”
Anyone with information can also contact Essex Police by calling them on 101.
Last month, we reported that a 65-year-old cyclist was left with a dislocated shoulder and compound fracture to his arm after being assaulted by a motorist, who turned on the cyclist while arguing with another driver about a minor car crash in Derby.
Glenn Holland, a former army medic, claims that as he approached the scene of the incident, one of the motorists involved in the collision accused him of cycling on the road instead of the bike path.
He says the driver then pushed him to the ground, before stealing the camera attached to his bike.
53 thoughts on “Road rage driver assaults teenage cyclist after clipping him with wing mirror”
Well, that sounds like a
Well, that sounds like a completely normal reaction to a driving incident
Well, from the description it
Well, from the description it was a vintage motor car; people get emotional.
[I]Edit – perhaps I should clarify, I was surmising based on the widely reported “wing mirror” detail. Wouldn’t want to derail the search for the actual car and driver.[/i]
Sriracha wrote:
You’d think they’d drive with a bit more care and courtesy in that case
Rose tinted spectacles /
Rose tinted spectacles / golden era?
Maybe the motorist wasn’t
Maybe the motorist wasn’t paying proper attention, and thought that the cyclist had ridden into him…? Still no excuse, mind.
brings back memories of the
brings back memories of the small dick range rover driver in richmond.
tries to squeeze past the cyclist, hits them with door mirror, assumes cyclist has slapped the car, flies into a rage.
https://road.cc/content/news/153086-local-paper-identifies-extreme-road-rage-driver-sw-london-cafe-chain-owner
Well, that was a revelation-
Well, that was a revelation- makes the Lancashire BMW driver who close-passed me, then threatened to ‘fucking flatten’ me and knock me off my bike seem like the vicar in Dad’s Army.
Mr Angry? The cafe owner,
Mr Angry? The cafe owner, who jumped on his reflective scales in the nud.
What the hell is it with people?
Oh yeah – I’d forgotten that
Oh yeah – I’d forgotten that one…
brooksby wrote:
When you order your (enraged) Andy Parsons from Wish
brooksby wrote:
I thought the same. I said on the Facebook page, I bet no cyclist hearing about this is surprised, the number of times drivers turn around and come back for you is pretty common. I also bet most non-cyclists think this doesn’t happen at all.
Door mirror – “wing” mirrors
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But wingnuts didn’t? Well,
But wingnuts didn’t? Well, maybe on non-folding bikes.
What’s the grammage on those
What’s the grammage on those bad boys?
If you have to ask you don’t
If you have to ask you don’t want! Chromed steel at about 30g each but alloy or zinc maybe lighter (solid axle too mind). But who cares? It’s the “old-style quick-release” vibe. Check Pashley’s!
Maybe it was a vintage Merc?
Maybe it was a vintage Merc?
Correct, it was a vintage
Correct, it was a vintage merc… maybe?
Curious (and not judgemental)
Curious (and not judgemental); do you feel the same way about “dashboard”?
I use VED for “road tax”.
I use VED for “road tax”.
V5C for “logbook”.
Dropdown for “glovebox”.
and
dampers for “shock absorbers”.
I keep gloves in the glove
I keep gloves in the glove compartment. They sit atop the logbook.
Surprised you don’t go for “instrument panel” …
Sounds like they’re in
Sounds like they’re in-console-able.
I don’t get what a menu has
I don’t get what a menu has to do with a glovebox.
Binnicle!
Binnicle!
ktache wrote:
Binnacle…
…my moral compass needs to be reset
Wing mirrors, door mirrors.
Wing mirrors, door mirrors. No difference- everyone knows what’s being talked about.
Much like road tax then.
Much like road tax then.
Mirrors fixed to doors and wings are not the same.
I drove a 1980’s Fiat Spider
I drove a 1980’s Fiat Spider recently.
It had WING MIRRORS!
oo that felt good
swldxer wrote:
Not at all… There is no difference being hit by a tonne plus of moving metal with a mirror mounted to its wing or door…
Those that use the term ‘Road Tax’ imply that they are paying for the roads and others aren’t. Their ignorance is two-fold and suggests thier sense of entitlement. Your pedantry is pointless…
I reckon more people could
I reckon more people could identify a “wing” mirror than could identify a wing.
Don’t get me started on the difference between wings (the horizontal type) and spoilers.
Sir David Attenborough: “The
Sir David Attenborough: “The spotted pedant energes from its hiding place, where it has lay dormant for 35 years. It flashes its 1978 headcrest in its profile picture to attract a mate, then scurries to the nearest prey.”
swldxer wrote:
It did?
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wing-mirror
Whether mounted on the door or not, I reckon wing mirror is far more used in everyday speech than door mirror, and immediately understood by people. It is far from the first case of something in English evolving well beyond its original, narrowly defined meaning.
Road tax is used far more
Road tax is used far more than VED – it’s still incorrect tough.
THOUGH
THOUGH
Don’t make them hate
Don’t make them hate themselves!
Or, “incorrect, tough”?
Or, “incorrect, tough”?
Well, lack of a comma I’d say
Well, lack of a comma I’d say is worse.
Wonder where they stand on the Oxford comma ?
Only barbarians, the bl00dy
Only barbarians, the bl00dy minded, and the ill-educated (and the minions of our new health secretary) fail to use the Oxford comma 😉
brooksby wrote:
Without an Oxford comma a report on a conference on sex work goes from: “We invited the prostitutes, Liz Truss, and Therese Coffey” to: “We invited the prostitutes, Liz Truss and Therese Coffey.”
Rendel Harris wrote:
Rendel Harris wrote:
I wouldn’t pay for those c
Pedantry about common
Pedantry about common language usage is amusing, although I do find it odd that many in the UK refer to the ground outside as the floor, when floors are man made structures usually found inside buildings..
In the Netherlands, they’re
In the Netherlands, they’re zijspiegels…side mirrors 🙂
This appalling incident,
This appalling incident, involving an attack on a youth by a nutter, seems to warrant more than the usual half-hearted response by the police where they probably wrote down the final report of ‘insufficient evidence’ even before issuing the PR stunt ‘appeal for witnesses’. Let’s hope I’m wrong (Essex police seem, from what I’ve read on here, to be devoted to the low and cyclist-phobic standard set by Lancashire) and they’re even now working away looking for old Mercs caught on camera nearby. Mercedes drivers, while not quite attaining the level of disregard for the law exhibited by BMW, Audi and VW drivers, are pretty bad aroung Garstang (which is Nuremberg am Wyre territory full of crazed Brexit voters tearing around in large German tanks), aided by the Permanent Nelsonian-eyed police, except when they’re blocking the main road in their determination to park as close as possible to the school. You can see that the driver of the KS19 BZM uber-Panzer saw no need to bother with the over-bureacratic nonsense of the MOT designed for the unter-mensch
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Time to get a bit of help, lad. You’re positively frothing.
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Leave it out
Leave it out
Flintshire Boy wrote:
God, you’re fucking boring. ?
Aka “I’ve assaulted you with
Aka “I’ve assaulted you with a 2 tonne vehicle and now I’ll do the same with my fists”
poor kid.
Ryan,
Ryan,
You had me at
“He was wearing a neck chain”.
A classy thug.
They should legalise tasers
They should legalise tasers for cyclists only.
Well, it so often seems to be
Well, it so often seems to be MAMICs (Middle-aged men in cars). So maybe just make all males over 40 use bikes instead? Their kids – if they have – should be at an age where they can ride bikes too so that fixes one need for driving.
They can use the safe and convenient cycle infra to get to their destinations – or to public transport, to connect with their pre-stored / rental bike at the end of that leg.
What do you mean, impossible?
chrisonatrike wrote:
MAMIPS (middle aged men in polyester slacks)
A driver causes a collision
A driver causes a collision by driving too close to a cyclist and then blames the cyclist and assaults him. Some people are nuts. I hope the victim is ok.
It’s so disappointing that at
It’s so disappointing that at the point in my life where I can afford a Mercedes, easy finance has made them the car of choice of boy racers and thugs.
Big man.