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  • June 21, 2011 at 3:51 pm #13675
    SimpleSimon

    A few weeks ago I was cycling from Dover to London with 6 other riders. We were coming through a Southeast London suburb when a car tried to overtake whist we were going past a traffic island which significantly narrowed the road. We remonstrated with the driver, shouting etc.

    The car stopped and the driver and passenger got out and started using very threatening language and their body language was highly aggressive.

    I was slightly ahead of the “gentlemen” concerned, standing astride my bike, looking over my right shoulder at what was making all the noise. I said nothing. They saw me reading the number plate and said “we see you have our number, now we’re effing gonna run you over you ****ing etc…”.

    So they got back in the car and drove off with wheels spinning and clipped my right hand with a wing mirror. Being on a spring, it made a loud noise, and they stopped again, but this time the driver came over and punched me to the ground. I thought they would start kicking me, as I lay tangled in bike on the pavement, but the bystanders (people waiting outside a restaurant) told them to “go away”.

    I was shaken but not hurt. The event was witnessed by my fellow riders, a bus driver and the bystanders. It was also captured on video from a helmet cam. The police were called and eventually came.

    You’d think that it would be easy to locate and prosecute. It turns out that the registered keeper of the car was not using the car that day (he/she was not on the video) and apparently whilst the keeper went to a funeral the car was left unlocked with the keys in the ignition.

    Upshot is that someone else, obviously being protected, was the driver and assaulter that day. Unless the police can get the keeper to talk, the assaulter goes scott free!

    What a world!!!

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  • July 8, 2011 at 10:16 pm #646399
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    Fixedwheelnut

    I ride through the village
    I ride through the village most days so I’ll keep an eye out for this car.
    Surely the vehicle owners story is rubbish and the Police could do more if they wanted to?

    July 8, 2011 at 8:10 pm #646397
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    james-o

    The reg is clear –
    KJ56 HGF,
    The reg is clear –

    KJ56 HGF, Silver 4-door Peugeot 4-series.

    If the owner won’t say who was driving, well, karma can take many forms.

    July 8, 2011 at 5:31 pm #646395
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    Velo_Alex

    Any chance of seeing *all*
    Any chance of seeing *all* the footage involving these people? I appreciate the ‘highlights’ show the part of most interest to us but it’s out of context.

    And no, I’m not making excuses for the people in the car.

    July 8, 2011 at 5:28 pm #646393
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    stuartpeck1

    Quote:”it seems that on the
    [quote]”it seems that on the day in question the vehicle was left unlocked with the keys in the ignition, only for it to be taken without consent but somehow later returned to the owner by person or persons unknown”[quote]

    How convenient. How many car thieves take a car back
    untouched, especially in S E London.
    That is a mystery 😕 If that was the case and the car had been stolen right at the same time as video evidence of the owner and his knuckle dragging mates were seen hitting someone to the ground, The car would have been either torched, never seen again, or featured on next Thursday’s episode of Crimewatch.

    I was wondering what could they have done to provoke such a reaction, but then i thought, ‘Aaah look at them, do you think they need any provocation? They live in perpetual frustration and can’t wait to punch someone’

    Glad that you’re ok, although another ‘nil point’ for the MET

    July 8, 2011 at 4:06 pm #646391
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    Gkam84

    Bugger taking it higher, just
    Bugger taking it higher, just get it all over facebook and twitter, BBC will soon pick up on it and put it on the news

    July 8, 2011 at 3:42 pm #646389
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    downfader

    My advice – if the Police
    My advice – if the Police have failed to investigate – go higher. If that doesnt work, go to the press! The Times and the Indi, maybe the Guardian?

    July 8, 2011 at 2:33 pm #646387
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    dave atkinson

    I know the registered owner
    I know the registered owner has said he wasn’t driving, but the police *have* checked that he isn’t either of the two people on that footage, haven’t they? rather than just taking his word for it…

    July 8, 2011 at 2:20 pm #646385
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    dbevacqua

    The footage seems to start
    The footage seems to start just before the punch. What about the initial incident and “remonstrations”? Surely they were recorded on the helmet cam as well…

    July 7, 2011 at 12:23 pm #646383
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    SimpleSimon

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKB9V7MNEXY

    Can anyone identify the assailants?
    Bexley, Kent

    June 22, 2011 at 8:56 am #646381
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    timlennon

    Surely the police should be
    Surely the police should be doing the owner for some form of obstruction beef: keys in the ignition? Car left in the same place? You didn’t report it? Everything still inside?

    I confess, I also thought: “7 of you? Why didn’t you just give the two of them a sodding good kicking?” It’s wrong, but also right … (No, I probably wouldn’t have done, either.)

    Frankly, I don’t think the police are taking this very seriously. It’d be different if you walked into the station, smacked the desk sergeant and walked out, wouldn’t it?

    June 21, 2011 at 9:26 pm #646379
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    SimpleSimon

    Video evidence is with the
    Video evidence is with the Police but they still have not found the guys. The bus also recorded the intitial “traffic incident” I think, and the Police have apparently requested the footage.
    Civil compensation – well there was no real injury, and any such funds come out of the public purse. What I really wanted was the perp to be charged, but it looks like it is not to be :”(

    June 21, 2011 at 6:59 pm #646377
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    A V Lowe

    What is to stop you sharing
    What is to stop you sharing the picture of the driver and passenger with the Police and the wider world?

    Keys in the ignition? Pull the other one mate.

    All London Buses contracts require the buses to be fitted with CCTV cameras – if you have the details – get this grabbed before the system, writes over the record (every 14 days usually)

    Even if no criminal action can you get civil compensation?

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