Please report dangerous drivers to the police - Roadsafe. Report to plod, not just whinge here.

Doesn't matter dude, people have been conditioned to ride as close as possible to the kerbs for eons, and now they're partly to blame?

He rode up the inside of a turning car, putting himself in a position where he rapidly lost his space on the road and then was run over as a result.

Actually, yes. If you do something, of your own freewill, it's your responsibility.

Not that dickhead in the van is in the right- I just hate talk of 'social conditioning' somehow mitigating what we do.

i'd be more upset by the cunt driving the bin lorry that passed with about an inch to spare at 0.40.

fucking UK drivers are easily amongst the worst on the planet.

The daily mail has ran with it.

I'd advise everyone to go straight to the comments.

also ^^^ & ^ - an interesting interpretation of events. The hi viz cockend overtakes, bullies the cyclist using a fucking car and knocks him off , how exactly is that any fault of the cyclist? victim blaming twit.

You really think that? Have you ever spent time in Tunisia, Egypt, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lao, Boliva etc etc

quite. the operative word there being 'amongst'.

such travels. so educate.

That happened approx 5 mins from my parents house. Awesome. I'll keep an eye out for the cunt.

The van isn't turning. Say you're in your car, a cyclist overtakes then pulls in and gouges a scrape along your paintwork. Whose fault? Same thing.

I just hate talk of 'social conditioning' somehow mitigating what we do.

Do you even ride a bicycle?

Look at the pathetically small painted cycle lane we have*, look at how drivers behave when we choose not to ride close to the kerbs, look at how politician talk about segregation like it's the best idea ever to get out of the way for the number one ruler.

Society tell us to ride as close as possible to the kerbs all the time, and then we get the blame when we get killed for doing so.

*most cycle lane are narrower than that gap in the video.

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I'm gonna stick my neck out and say british drivers are better than most.
such hyperbole. so exaggerate.

Some 'Green Flame' or similarly adorned van-driving cunt bashing through the red at Old Street RAB this morning. Fuck you, cunt.

Spanish the better one.

bites

Yes, I bicycle.

The cycle lanes are often small. Thankfully we have the entire road we can use. What do you mean by ' how drivers behave when we choose not to ride on the curb' (seriously- I'd like an answer to this)? Because in my experience the majority are just fine- they let me out when needed, give me space, don't swear at me too often, and generally allow me to get where I'm going in one piece. If they didn't, I wouldn't commute by bike. If you're experiences are different, why do you commute (you do commute, don't you- I've seen you on the thread before)? There is the odd arsehole, or smidsy, but that- I think- comes with being around people. Kinda like being around cyclists.

And to hear 'society tells us' from a man who cycles x hundred miles in one day- for fun- doesn't make sense to me. It seems to me that society actually tells us to buy a car (the number one ruler?) and watch the tv. But thankfully we're allowed to choose, within limits, how we live our lives. And in doing so we must take account for our individual actions. Which is perhaps why society- in the form of the daily mail, twitter, the police and the like- are now ripping into the driver for what he did.

Edit- this is the 'report bad driver'- how can you post in this thread, designed to make people take responsibility for their actions (or at least to whinge about it when they don't), and deny that cyclists can carry that same responsibility?!

I'd advise everyone to go straight to the comments.

Fairly balanced as it goes.

well that sucks the fun out of it.

All a bit dismal. Is mr. punchy shouty on the phone? Is that what the cyclist says to him as he goes past?

I'd advise everyone to go straight to the comments.

Please could you summarise the best ones for us? I like to picture the writers of the comments foaming at the mouth, then collapsing with a trickle of blood from their noses as their blood pressure causes an aneurism.

Yep, driver on the phone and sideswipes the rider, who suggests putting the phone down would help him pay attention to driving, micro cock wannabe Statham gets all punchy, all caught on film, cops say they can't do anything cos no complaint.

I think you can question the behaviour of the cyclist without suggesting he's in any way to blame for the action the driver took. That undertake behind the bin lorry turning left was weird and he jerked out in front of the van as the lorry hadn't even cleared the road yet. Shouting at him to get off his phone and calling him a muppet makes him look like we're all a bunch of milk monitor go pro wankers.

Obviously I have been in situations where I have trapped off at people and felt like a prick about it afterwards, similarly I think the cyclist here was needlessly aggressive.

None of the above excuses, explains or mitigates the driver's reaction, but the cyclist isn't beyond questioning.

Had the cyclist taken primary to block dangerous overtakes I reckon Mr Statham would have waited patiently behind then seen the cyclist off with a cheery wave.

So we're all agreed then that it wasn't the best example of cycling on a busy, narrow road, but nothing so bad as to get punched about (if there is such a thing)?

Pretty much everything in that video is dismal, but the violence is criminal.

No, but at least he wouldn't have me thinking that he was a bit of a prick for cycling in a needlessly aggressive manner.