Crime & Legal

Near Miss of the Day 96: Driver fails to see cyclist on roundabout

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s Southampton

Driver accused of killing Michele Scarponi dies of cancer

Giuseppe Giacconi was reportedly consumed by grief after April 2017 crash that claimed life of 2017 Giro d'Italia champion

Family of cyclist killed in crash at Portsmouth velodrome plan legal action

Jury return accidental death verdict at inquest on Richard Phillips-Schofield

Near Miss of the Day 95: Driver almost takes out rider’s rear wheel through roadworks

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s Essex

Near Miss of the Day 94: Addison Lee driver in close pass

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s London

Six months’ jail for drunk cyclist who crashed into pensioner while riding bike with no brakes

Philip Cox had been riding along platform at Leicester railway station when he collided with man who had just got off train

Cyclist killed as motorist driving at 100mph+ crashes into charity ride in California

Another rider seriously injured in fatal collision at Tour de Palm Springs

Near Miss of the Day 93: TfL bus driver fined after close pass – and says it would have been better if he’d been driving his car

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s London

Cyclist mugged and pushed into stream on popular Cambridge cycle route

Victim lost laptop, phone and bike after being stopped by hooded youths on Snakey Path near Cherry Hinton

Arrest made after lorry driver who hit cyclist stopped to check vehicle then drove off

Male rider in his 30s sustained "life changing injuries" in collision in Norfolk this morning

Near Miss of the Day 92: Police decline to act on close pass

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s Northamptonshire

Ex-postman jailed for stealing packages in the mail containing cycling products

John Woodhouse was caught after a tracking device was placed on a parcel

Near Miss of the Day 91: Cyclist has two close passes while returning from ride

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s Northern Ireland

‘Vigilante’ cyclist Dave Sherry knocked off bike by lorry driver (+ link to video)

“I thought I was going to die,” says man once described as 'Britain’s most hated cyclist'

Cyclist’s “momentary lapse in judgement” led to her death, says coroner

Oliwia Wojciechowska rode through red light at signalled pedestrian crossing into path of lorry, inquest told

Near Miss of the Day 89: Tailgating driver leans on horn before close pass – and gets prosecuted

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s London

York cycle shop owner who ran bike theft ring targeting city’s railway station jailed

Philip Rennison, who ran now-defunct Cycle City, used middleman to tell thief which bikes to steal

Near Miss of the Day 88: White van driver makes very close pass

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s Nottingham

Near Miss of the Day 87: Left-turning coach driver squeezes cyclist into fence

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s Shropshire

Would van driver who killed cyclist have been cleared of causing death by careless driving had the victim been a pedestrian?

Cycling UK questions jury’s decision

Cyclist/moron fined for forcing his way through level crossing and nearly being hit by train

Footage of incident was shared by Jeremy Vine

Police arrest three suspected bike thieves – after following them from Brighton to London

Officers made arrests in Mitcham after tailing suspects' van for 50 miles

Near Miss of the Day 84: 4×4 driver in close pass – but police take no action

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s Leeds

Video: Leeds driver stopped in queuing traffic opens car door into cyclist’s path

Motorist was charged with a public order offence following incident that rider caught on camera

Police in West London fine cyclists for using mobiles – but say no resources to target drivers using handheld phones at wheel

Admission was made at meeting of Chiswick Area Forum last week, where officers were also urged to target pavement cyclists

Near Miss of the Day 83: White van driver in left hook and punishment pass

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s Northern Ireland

Near Miss of the Day 82: Driver in close pass on club ride

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s Hampshire (and Warwickshire)

Motorists have ‘enhanced duty of care’ towards cyclists says lawyer who represented time trialist hit by 4×4 on single track road

In legal terms, those driving vehicles apparently have greater ‘causative potency’

Driver who killed cyclist on roundabout near Bristol given community order

Jury sent note to judge suggesting 'Think Bike' signage be added to junction

Seven and a half years in jail for hit-and-run driver who left cyclist to die

Judge believes Kade Scrivens didn't hand himself in for 55 hours because he was intoxicated at time of crash that killed Nicholas Harrison