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Teapot55

The private-hire driver who nudged the rear of my bicycle twice with the wing of his vehicle whilst I was stationary in a traffic queue last February has recently been found guilty of driving without due care and attention, has had to pay £950 in fines and court costs and received four points on his licence.

rdr

Was there any intent? If there was, why not assult?

bebewoo

Good for you

Throbbe

Just out of interest, was that assisted by camera footage, or witnesses.


Happily I've never experienced worse than someone shouting out of a window, but wondered how you'd go about getting the police to follow up something like this.

Mids_Costcutter

Well done on securing a prosecution. Would be interested to know if it was secured using video evidence? Some police officers / forces have refused to look at video evidence, as mentioned here on the CTC's Road Justice web site:

http://www.roadjustice.org.uk/video-evidence

Are there any police officers out there who can explain why?

BykerSands

rdr wrote: »

Was there any intent? If there was, why not assult?

Because he nudged the bike not the rider. For info you don't need intent for assault.

brat

BykerSands wrote: »

Because he nudged the bike not the rider. For info you don't need intent for assault.

If there's no intent, if the act was merely reckless, it would almost always be dealt with under road traffic legislation. But your more general point about assault is correct.

Teapot55

Throbbe wrote: »

Just out of interest, was that assisted by camera footage, or witnesses.

I only called the police because two witnesses appeared and urged me to do so. It may have [edit: been] taken to court by the police because the action of the private-hire driver did not come after an altercation between us; indeed I was not even aware of him until his vehicle hit mine, as I was stationary and he was behind me.

Tilt

Teapot55 wrote: »

Throbbe wrote: »

Just out of interest, was that assisted by camera footage, or witnesses.

I only called the police because two witnesses appeared and urged me to do so. It may have [edit: been] taken to court by the police because the action of the private-hire driver did not come after an altercation between us; indeed I was not even aware of him until his vehicle hit mine, as I was stationary and he was behind me.

Strange that the police attended unless details hadn't been exchanged or it was a fail to stop. Plus for the driver to of been charged, i'm assuming you made a compliant against him.

Teapot55

[Well I have had a bit of a rough year, especially regarding not having time to check the posts on the MSE forums, but finally catching up].

In answer to your questions, Tilt, I phoned the police on my mobile to inform them of what had just happened - guess that is classed as a complaint. They asked me where the driver was & I said he had gone, which he had. They did not send an officer - it was all handled subsequent to the incident by email between the police & myself.