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Motorcyclist hits cyclist, and posts video of incident on YouTube
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/motorcyclist-hits-cyclist-posts-video-youtube-124261
Interestingly, a police woman turns up, listens to the driver admit what he did, shrugs shoulders...
Nothing excuses the motorcylist's actions ('making' a lane which didn't exist), and he was the sole cause of the collision, but the cyclist certainly shouldn't be on the phone, let alone doing it somewhere like the Mall (not that anywhere else would be acceptable either).
The cyclist showed poor judgement in flouting the phone laws and the biker showed bad manners, inconsideration for safety, and lied to the police about the true nature of what happened. Slap on the wrist and fine for phone use for the cyclist and dangerous driving action against the biker should be the outcome. Both are clearly guilty from video evidence alone.
Be sure to watch the full version, and you'll see that the police officer takes everything the biker says as gospel without allowing the cyclist to put his case forward. To her, it's all about the phone use. The cyclist is too meek but perhaps a lot of that is from being in shock.
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And he's getting rightly vilified on the Ducati forum he's a member of (though I suspect many of the members doing so are cyclists who've joined up to have a go at him, judging by their low post count). Ducati forum. Discussion starts on page 2
Just as a point of information: it's not against the law to use a phone while cycling. The law on this very specifically excludes cyclists, otherwise obviously the cyclist in the video would not be doing it.
There's a possible argument that if you're on the phone cycling in a completely straight line in a cycle lane and get hit from behind that your use of a phone might contribute to a charge of furious cycling or whatever, but I think that's frankly absurd in this case.
(Personally I wouldn't be riding on the phone, but we have made a lot of laws and in fairness this isn't one of them)
Surely the police will charge the motorcyclist over this, especially since he has apparently claimed on the linked forum that he was teaching a lesson...
The uploader appears to be trying to catch YouTube reposts, but the clip is still here on LiveLeak
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That didn't work for me, but you can piece go direct http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=625_1400802712
Quite a remarkable bit of footage really. I can understand why Alex Mitchell / "Ducati Dragons" doesn't want the footage going viral (dream on).
Is that policewoman straight off some children's TV programme ?? WTF!
I'd be interested to know what this gentleman does for a living. He is assertive enough to overwhelm a police officer after a road traffic incident which looks to me, as a motorcyclist, to be an assault, not an accident.
I hope that bicyclist makes a complaint against both his assailant and the police officer who let him down.
Indy's running it as a story http://ind.pn/1w6PkQh
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