Avon & Somerset Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman, who was cycling with her seven-year-old daughter, was injured when she was knocked off her bike by a hit-and-run driver.
Officers say that the force of the crash was such that the vehicle’s wing mirror was ripped off.
The victim, a woman aged in her thirties, was treated at the scene by paramedics for her injuries.
The incident happened at around 9.40am last Friday 31 July on HARP Road, Brent Knoll in the Somerset Levels.
The driver if the vehicle involved, a silver or grey Honda, was headed in the same direction as the mother and daughter when the crash happened, but failed to stop.
Anyone with information is requested to contact police on 101, quoting reference 5220171251, or the charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
21 thoughts on “Woman injured by hit-and-run driver while cycling with daughter, aged seven”
It’s a door mirror, not a
It’s a door mirror, not a “wing” mirror.
you’re really going to choose
you’re really going to choose that as your hill to die on?
Could have been this honda
Could have been this honda
Nope, side mirror if we want
Nope, side mirror if we want to be technical and most commonly referred to as wing mirror by pretty much any mechanic or general person in the street.
Do an exercise. Go into google and type in door mirror and see what is returned. Then type in Side Mirror and then Wing Mirror.
People also call VED “road
People also call VED “road tax” and V5 documents as “log books” though. Wing mirrors went out decades ago – they are door mirrors now.
swldxer wrote:
This the only door mirror I could find on the internet. At least this will sort out the blind spot. It appears you are raising pedantry to another level. Shame you didn’t show concern for the lass or her daughter. Good luck on your hill.
swldxer wrote:
Despite the fact that research found that looking into a wing mirror took much less time than looking in a door mirror.
It’s a V5C, not a V5.
It’s a V5C, not a V5.
i look forward to your
i look forward to your upcoming campaign against telephone icons on business cards and speed camera signs
I’ve never seen a telephone
I’ve never seen a telephone icon on a speed camera sign.
It could’ve been a wing
brooksby sometimes it is the cyclist’s fault.
It’s incredibly unlikely to be in this case.
I hope she heals well and fast and that they get the driver who did this terrble driving. ;-(
There are some on Twitter
There are some on Twitter quite capable of saying “tsk. what was she even doing out on a bike on a road like that, putting her child in danger” it doesn’t need aid from you.
The woman that knocked me off in 2007 on a roundabout would have loved it to have been my fault – she certainly went to the police afterwards with a complete pack of lies to the effect that it was – thank goodness for the other motorist who saw what happened.
the story is in the local newspaper, someone quite likely to be local has a missing/damaged -ahem – nearside mirror on their silver car, so I really hope the net closes in on them, if they’re too damned low to come forward.
EDIT : posted Thursday night and I swear on my brazed lugs that I hadn’t seen the Good Moaning Britain schedule for Friday! Calling, Dave, I don’t expect you to pay me for my doggerel, but for this amount of prescience, let’s at least call it quits. What d’you say?
And the jettisoning of a
And the jettisoning of a mirror makes a noticeable noise.
This driver
1. Drove too close to a pair of cyclists ( I’ll put my neck on the line and presume the cyclist did not veer 1.5m into the overtaking car’s path )
2. Heard/felt the mirror detach but did not stop to see if the cyclist was hit, injured, laying in the carriageway
3. Continued their journey with an obviously missing mirror apparent to them from the driving position during rear view checks, but still did not return to check what had happened.
I’m already guessing they are indeed “too damned low”
Exactly what happened to me
Exactly what happened to me last September… You described it well…. without camera footage or reg number…..Cambs plod were not interested
in the New Forest, we get a
in the New Forest, we get a lot of animal collisions – hitting a pony causes a lot of damage to your car, it must be pretty unmistakeable yet a lot of it is hit and run and you never hear of anyone being held to account.
“the worse roads for animal collisions are the two busiest roads” – wow, what was your first clue? An average speed detection zone, like on the A428 between Bedford and Northampton* would help, yet is never enacted, strangely.
*Installed to control that other breed of MAMIL: middle aged men in leathers.
David9694 wrote:
Not if it’s in Northamptonshire, speed cameras were decommissioned years ago.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1297519/speed-camera-fixed-road-safety-northamptonshire-police-driving-fine
I know that road. It’s a
I know that road. It’s a straight bit of road and not one with poor forward visibility. I can’t see how a driver couldn’t see a cyclist ahead.
I hope the woman cyclist recovers.
Don’t worry – I’m sure
Don’t worry – I’m sure Socrati or NZ will be along soon to explain how it was the cyclist’s fault…
It’s amazing how reckless
It’s amazing how reckless some drivers are even around young children.
We got close passed the other day by a tractor towing a trailer. My young daughter on her tag bike was screaming.
Unfortunately I don’t have a camera and no independent witnesses.
In my opinion the driver
In my opinion the driver should be taking extra care around a young rider and slowing down accordingly. If the collision was enough to remove the mirror then this could not have been the case.
The depressing thing here is that even if they are caught all that will happen is a caution at most. How the government thinks it’s going to get more people cycling is beyond me. May be its just words.
But the car had registration
But the car had registration plates and according to Mr Freeman that solves all problems related to….. oh sorry no it doesn’t solve all problems related to bicycles does it, because tossers like him in cars can just drive away without a care in the world for the damage they just caused with their car fitted with registration plates that don’t work.