Obstructing lorries, careless driving and heavy traffic captured on single journey along major London Cycleway; Tour de France route presentation + more on the live blog

Very gratifying to see the scum being tasered. Of course if the police are unable to police during a shift change then that is the time to commit violent crime. No good complaining though as they mark there own work.

The theft aside... I've been saying this for years. It should be perfectly legal to throw a brick at anyone coming at you at speed. Just imagine the deterrent effect it would have on morons like these.

@DS2025 RE the passenger: I'm no lawyer, but I'm not aware of any charges that could obviously be brought. We do have the legal principle of "joint enterprise", but that requires the secondary party to assist or encourage the primary to commit the offence. If we take her account verbatim, it does not sound to me like she actively assisted or encouraged the offence, even if she didn't do anything to stop it. We don't have "good samaritan" laws nor (as far as I am aware) any obligation to report offences we see or know about. It's morally reprehensible behaviour, but if she just sat there and let him carry on, I don't think that she would have been committing an offence. The other thing to consider, even if there is a charge that could be brought, is whether the public interest is better served by granting leniency given she did, belatedly, contact the police and tell them everything. Charging her for her participation might put other people off from contacting the police in future, which could be considered a greater injustice if it means the drivers manage to get away with it. It's far from a unique situation to have a passenger in the car when an offence is committed, albeit few as horrific as this.

Retroactive suspension? I had a mountain bike like that, once.

@Mr Blackbird in mitigation, the driver was crying and driving erratically, so clearly showed remorse Well, Dr Jekyll, please let Mr Hyde know that there's a top job awaiting him at the Lancashire Constabulary Driver Justification Division!

i watched the Tour on SBS , free to air and all you need is a vpn. Commentary was a bit crap though, they rabbit on and never tell you who is in the break, what is going on etc

RIP Mayer Hillman. Excellent obituary in the Guardian, apparently the only medium to notice his passing, but neither it nor the article here mentions one of his most important publications, at least for cycling. I refer of course to 'Cycling Towards Health and Safety' (BMA, 1992) a seminal work which demonstrated the overwhelming health benefits of regular bike riding. I treasure my copy. He also authored 'Cycle helmets: the case for and against' (Policy Studies Institute, 1993) which helped prevent the UK from getting a disastrous helmet law. Goodbye Mayer Hillman, and thank you for all the ammunition us cycle campaigners needed so badly.

@Rendel Harris That is probably the worst motorist kills cyclist case I have read. But in mitigation, the driver was crying and driving erratically, so clearly showed remorse. Presumably he will claim that he is considering never driving again.

I would happily tattoo “thieving scum” across the foreheads of this pair.

@Rendel Harris that was a hard read. Not often am I stuck for words but I can't even begin to comprehend how someone can be so callous. I also wonder how there isn't something the passenger could be charged with. Even though it would have unlikely changed the outcome (but she wouldn't have known at that point), the fact she delayed so long in reporting it shows she is just as scummy as the driver.