Cyclist assaulted on Chelsea Embankment

I am with you VU. lets rack up huge debts, burn our houses and defraud the insurance and flee this country, burn down the courts on the way out leaving just the foreigners to rot in this diana-less flea bitten rip off britain.

Start a fresh in greece..

Only if we leave on the QE fucking II holmes.

Because let's face it those Euro lottery winners owe us, we bought tickets.

thats the only way i'd go.. can fix the hair on the way over whilst enjoying a racy cocktail

In order to investigate all the allegations properly and fairly they do have to arrest everyone who is subject to an allegation - ie both cyclists and red transit men. This would be to ensure that neither party can get together and cook up a story.

No, they really, really don't. It's perfectly practicable to take people aside at the time, find out in detail what the allegations are and only then take a decision on arresting anyone. Quite possibly that decision is that everyone needs to calm down and go home and no more action be taken, but "we'll need to nick everyone at the outset" is a red herring intended to save them the bother (and paperwork) of even a cursory investigation.

lets rack up huge debts, burn our houses and defraud the insurance and flee this country

I didn't think my company mission statement was public..

Le sigh. Let's face it, the police don't ever do anything at all do they. I mean no arrests are ever made of rapists, burglars, muggers, murderers, drug dealers, etc, etc. There's nobody at all in prison. And the police spend their entire day eating doughnuts and kebabs. I believe this has been proven as 'tru fax bruv' by the internetz and other reliable sources.

To the OP, what happened is horrible and thankfully nobody was seriously hurt. I'm hoping that the blokes in the pick-up shat themselves but without concrete evidence and just she said but he said there isn't a great deal that can be done. Helmet cam with evidence of the assault would have been superb and I'm sure with such strong evidence the police would have pursued it like a dog with a bone but without it's just hearsay. Sorry but true.

I'm with you on this. No real harm done to the guy who got hit thanks to his helmet and then my intervention. I was hoping that the police would have done a bit more than what they did but shit happens. I’m not overly keen on taking it much further with IPCC or the press. It might be a different story if I was the one that got hit. Although having said that a friend of a friend of a friend is reasonably high up in the Met so I’m going to mention it to him and see what he says. Probably some bullshit but hey worth a try.

You make an interesting point about helmet video, especially given the other incidents I’ve had recently. General shit driving resulting in me being almost knocked down twice by vans in the past week. I’ve also made a couple of Roadsafe complaints in the past month. No action that I know of. I’ve been considering getting a camera but I don’t wear a helmet (personal choice and all) so helmet cam is not really practical. Mounting a camera on the bike is possible not much good during an altercation. Had a look at the Looxcie but seems expensive for what it is. Anyone with experience of this or video glasses that don’t make you look like a dweeb or pervert?

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The blokes [which is an insult to blokes] in the cab will laugh about how they 'fucked up that stupid bikewanker' over a few beers as they sharpen their pitbulls teef innit. The plod are extra crap at bike vs car law [unless cop onna bike, and even then....] Main point is the vancunts hit the cyclist first with the wing mirror so theirs is the first offence and assaulting cyclist the second offence. But the most offensive thing is that they got off scott free. If the po po won’t protect cyclists rights as “vehicles on her majesties highway” do we start to protect ourselves? Should angry bikers start randomly attacking car drivers in a vigilante style you can bet the Pogs would ban bikes from the roads in a flash. Sick of being treated like dog shit on the path. Fury, rant, steam.

Stepping in to make a “citizens arrest” was a very courageous thing to do, I salute you!

takes calming pills