Cyclist assaulted on Chelsea Embankment

I don't know very much about the law, but I know that it's impossible to bring every case of violence/assault/verbal abuse before the courts. Ideally, of course we want to reduce such behaviour at source rather than controlling it by legislation and enforcement, but the reality offers no easy solutions. There are cases like the one linked to above which should never have come to court and a lot of shocking behaviour goes unpunished.

Legal proceedings are used as a tool to shape society, smoking fines, asbos, PCNs etc why not have a few cases that go in the favour of cyclists so legislate changes in our favour making it easy to pass cases through court when they need to be.

Right now a cyclist can die as a result of dangerous driving and we are shocked it gets to court. seeing it go in the cyclists favour is just un-heard of.
You could get into a car and plough onto a pavement full of kids, taking a few cyclists on route and ending up in cluster of nuns holding soft little kittens, killing the lot. you would walk away without a license. a license you could get back after a few years.

The scuffle above isn't worth taking on, live and learn, next time he wont confront the driver. What is the gain? i mean really?
gut instinct lets you know what you are dealing with and it's really only worth sounding off in a nice manner to those who would listen.

I ignore black cabs, pricks in blue stickred/addison lee numbers, boy racers, white van drivers, hire vans, pizza delivery mopeds, signs, lights, peds, jews, discount furniture stores, tight jeans, sick animals and day old pizza. waste of time.