Cyclists who jumped red light in front of police stopped and fined, as force shares footage with "red means stop" warning

Not making excuses for them, they broke the law and so deserved what they got. However it does seem from the video that the rider in black makes a thumbs up gesture towards the person waiting to cross (another cyclist); I wonder if that person had said go ahead lads, I'll follow you or something similar. As I say, not an excuse but possibly an explanation. Certainly nowhere near as egregious or dangerous as the countless incidents of cyclists and drivers running reds I see every single day in London, but still, if you don't want to get fined there's this one weird trick you can use...

Did Road.cc miss this news item?

Putney fatal collision 2 November 2024.

Can somebody tell motorists. To them red means 'get away with it if you can', like every other rule.

I saw a creative maneuver recently: a cyclist wanted to cross a junction with a red light so they made a left turn, a u-turn and finally another left turn, genius

Inexcusable. Allows people like Iain Duncan-Smith and other Daily Telegraph buffers to tar all cyclists with the same brush.

I live locally to this - sad to see & a dumb move at the best of times, let alone in front of the polis.  Fair play to them for actually taking action.   Though had they not been wearing hi-viz the cyclists would have been invisible & would have got away it  

That said, Surrey Police (in my experience) are growing ever worse at dealing with close passes & potential driving offences when you submit footage online - I've had several recently where I've been close passed (often either unecessarily, or more likely because the move is made into oncoming traffic or on a blind bend) by a matter of inches whilst out riding - yet always NFA.  A year or so ago, footage of incidents involving passes less close/egregious were yielding positive results.     I'm beginning to wonder if I need to actually be struck by a vehicle before it counts as a close pass in Surrey now? 

Phwoar, imagine all the raging hard ons the motorists got from that one. Cyclists being held accountable for their awful behaviour for once. If only the police were there all the time to catch these nasty cyclists like they are when people fly through red lights in their 2 tonne lumps of metal.

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In the footage, which has attracted almost 800 comments

I can well imagine...

"See, this shows that ALL cyclists are law-breakers."

"OK, that's two instances to stack up against thousands of videos shot by cyclists of motorists doing far worse."

"How DARE people invade OUR privacy and cause us to LOOSE our GOD-GIVEN driving licences."