Company director jailed for pushing e-cyclist off his bike.

[Ming the Merciless]

Defence said "If he had been almost stationary he would not have suffered such injury."
Always travel slowly when you expect to be punched or hurled off your mount.

Which is utter nonsense as that would have no impact on speed of impact to ground after the blow.

 

[postman]

Link a bit dodgy.

 

[mistyoptic]

The defence lawyer is a right charmer, suggesting that if the victim of his client's assault had been going slower he wouldn't have been hurt so badly. They're down in the gutter with estate agents and insurers.

According to the news report, he was only doing 7.5mph at that point anyway. Bl**dy lawyer idiot

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The speeds seem remarkably accurate?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The speeds seem remarkably accurate?

Well they give precise figures but we have no way of knowing the accuracy

 

[Deleted member 1258]

He thought the cyclist was going too fast when he went past him and his wife, in fact he was travelling at 12mph:

Link removed. Mods

Your link took me to a porn site. It needs removing.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Well they give precise figures but we have no way of knowing the accuracy

You correct my thoughts correctly

 

[classic33]

Your link took me to a porn site. It needs removing.

Try
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/angry-dog-walker-jailed-after-20424016

 

[winjim]

Try
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/angry-dog-walker-jailed-after-20424016

Hmm. We've got ~20kph in that article vs 23mph in the Observer, and 12mph in the OP compared with 7.5mph in the Observer. At the very least we've got our units mixed up. I would guess it's 23kph/14mph on the first pass and 12kph/7.5mph on the second pass.

I'm gonna say 14mph is still pretty quick to be passing dog walkers on a narrowish path.

 

[mjr]

Is it that narrow?

 

[winjim]

Is it that narrow?

To be honest it's difficult to tell without actually being there, but put three pedestrians, two dogs and a cyclist on it, and it becomes a lot narrower. And of course an appropriate passing speed would depend both on the width of the path, and on the behaviour and interactions of all involved.

 

[Drago]

Interesting that they have the precise speeds in the report. I have to say that from a quick glance at streetview, 23mph seems far too fast to be passing dog walkers on what seems like a fairly narrow path.

Although he could have been doing 100mph and that is still not a defence for an assault, or a mitigation for having done so.

 

[mjr]

To be honest it's difficult to tell without actually being there, but put three pedestrians, two dogs and a cyclist on it, and it becomes a lot narrower. And of course an appropriate passing speed would depend both on the width of the path, and on the behaviour and interactions of all involved.

I rode part of it years ago. I don't remember it being narrow except for over the bridge at the Kenilworth end.

I suspect Mr Angry may have reacted to the approaching bike by spreading himself and dogs out for the first pass, then gone even wider for the second. Also, it's uphill towards Burton Green so 23 kph is much more likely than mph.

 

[DCBassman]

Which is utter nonsense as that would have no impact on speed of impact to ground after the blow.

Agreed, from personal experience.

 

[cougie uk]

I guess cyclist was probably on Strava or something similar so his speed would have been recorded ?