Crime & Legal

Cyclists, 13, have bikes stolen after being “deliberately driven at” and threatened

Avon and Somerset Police said the teenagers were unharmed but left shaken following the incident

Car passenger hits cyclist over head with baseball bat

Essex Police investigate unprovoked assault in Basildon that left cyclist needing stitches

Police issue warning after cyclist finds wire tied across forest trail

Officers have warned cyclists and walkers to be “extra vigilant” after the wire was found in the popular Cannock Chase forest in Staffordshire

Near Miss of the Day 849: Warning letter for taxi driver who close passed oncoming cyclist while overtaking queue of traffic in wrong lane

Derbyshire Constabulary told the cyclist that prosecuting the driver would not be “proportional”

Cyclist seriously injured by hit-and-run driver in “senseless act of violence”

The motorist, driving a car with cloned number plates, abandoned the vehicle following the collision, described by police as attempted murder

Cyclists in Cyprus call for repeal of compulsory helmet law

Police insist that legislation that came into force on Wednesday is aimed at protecting people on bikes

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Elderly pedestrian dies five days after collision involving cyclist

89-year-old man passed away in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary five days after crash in Linlithgow

Murder suspect in deaths of father and son killed while cycling released on bail

Investigation continues into fatal hit-and-run crash in Barnsley last month

Near Miss of the Day 848: An overtake worthy of the ‘must get in front’ title

An example for the MGIF textbook...

Speeding BMW driver who killed two young boys jailed for nine years

Jack Hart removed his dashcam after hitting 10-year-old Steven Duffield and Mason Deakin, 11, as they travelled by bike in a Hull bus lane

Shared-use path cyclist injured by hit-and-run driver who smashed into bus stop

Staffordshire Police confirmed the cyclist was "riding in the cycle lane when a car [driver] drove into the bus stop and collided with a large metal frame"

Near Miss of the Day 847: Careless caravan close call causes cyclists concern

"Needless to say, we turned back to the New Forest gravel paths as quickly as possible"

“It was really quite daunting”: Christina Mackenzie back on her bike after “horrific” hit-and-run recovery

Despite a police appeal the driver who broke the women's Land's End to John O'Groats record holder's pelvis in four places has never been caught

Judge tells man who “played the system” after dangerous driving killed two young boys to expect “very significant sentence”

Judge John Thackray said Jack Hart's guilty plea for the dangerous driving which killed Steven Duffield, 10, and Mason Deakin, 11, as they travelled by bike in Hull in 2020 had "come over two years later than it should have done"

“People need to see justice being done”: CyclingMikey says camera cyclists suffer online abuse because some motorists “feel they have the right to drive how they want”

The activist admits that online harassment previously put “a lot of strain” on him, as a fellow camera cyclist deleted his social media accounts following a targeted campaign last week

Victory claimed for harassment campaign by “mob of decent people” as helmet cam cyclist deletes Youtube and Twitter accounts

Deacon Thurston caught 12 drivers illegally using handheld mobiles in one day – and became the target of abusive and threatening tweets in apparently co-ordinated attack

Hit-and-run driver who killed cyclist and hit another minutes later convicted of causing death by dangerous driving

Nathan Schultz will be sentenced on 3 March for killing Agniszka Pocztowska, while his car passenger Kasey Wrench has already been handed a suspended prison sentence

167 cyclists – and just four drivers – fined in police crackdown during Tour Down Under

During the same two-week period, one cyclist was killed and eight others seriously injured in South Australia

Cyclist hit by truck driver has compensation cut after judge says lack of helmet contributed to injuries

The damages awarded to Raissa Lopes, who suffered concussion after being struck by the hit-and-run motorist, were reduced by €4,000 on the basis of “contributory negligence”

Driver assaulted cyclist for questioning mobile phone use

UPDATED: After two missed court appearances Akil James eventually pleaded guilty and was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay compensation, which still has not been received, of £500 and £820 costs

Man found guilty of robbery at Mark Cavendish’s home

Another man was found not guilty by the jury at Chelmsford Crown Court

Near Miss of the Day 846 (updated): Motorist escapes punishment for extreme close pass and deliberately reversing into cyclist

West Midlands Police say that the driver was not prosecuted because the two-week time frame had expired, though the cyclist claims that he was told by police that the the alleged collision was not “clear” in the video

Cyclocross star’s bike stolen ahead of Benidorm World Cup

Shirin van Anrooij’s Trek Boone was taken from a car park while she was reconning the course in the Spanish seaside resort

Family sues lorry companies and city after toddler killed when parents moved into road to avoid truck parked in bike lane

“People have to care. The city has to care. Corporations have to care. They all need to respect bicycle lanes and the bicyclists using them,” Lily Shambrook’s parents said

Motorist accused of clipping and then punching and “choking” cyclist in road rage attack found not guilty

The driver denied assaulting the cyclist on the Lake District’s Hardknott Pass, and claimed that the rider punched his car and “hit me first”

Woman arrested after teen robbed of bike at knifepoint

Youngster handed over bike after being threatened with Stanley knife in Cheltenham yesterday

Banned hit-and-run driver who killed cyclist then torched car jailed

Lee Beevers was driving at nearly three times the speed limit before he crashed into Alan Tankard

Car passenger fined for lobbing tub of hair gel at cyclist from moving vehicle

The 22-year-old admitted becoming frustrated that the cyclists were riding two abreast and not “moving fast enough” before the assault

Near Miss of the Day 845: Cyclist close passed… by driver with bike racks on their car

It's sometimes the ones you least expect...

Trial of terrorist who killed eight people on New York City cycle path begins

12 more people were injured in attack by Sayfullo Saipov on Halloween 2017