Operation Snap no longer processing close passes

[Drago]

Thats an eye wateringly dodgy piece of riding and he deserves the process against him , but 1200 sheets worth? Certainly the court seems not to like cyclists!

Kill someone in a car you could get a suspended sentence and less than that in costs.

This recalls to mind a job I once dealt with. A chap pulled out a knife and tried to rob a guy in a local park, only for his victim to whip out a machete and rob him back. Then the first guy marched down the nick to complain! Sometimes youre better off just sucking it up but some people's ego won't let them.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Comments suggest West Yorkshire police are by nature, anti cyclist.
https://road.cc/news/police-say-not...-captured-by-cyclist-fined-1200-in-viral-clip

One can easily jump to the conclusion the driver was actioned in order to justify the cyclist prosecution.

Not a parked car pass I'd usually do and to do it, I would have to be absolutely certain nobody was in the car and I could stay on my side of the road. The reasoning given by police is bizarre, in that the car coming down the hill had to move towards their nearside kerb. It was hardly an emergency swerve and the cyclist stayed on their side of the road, if they clipped the moving car that had stayed on their side of the road there would only be one loser.

 

[Binky]

Viewing the clip several times it looks like cyclist never crossed the centre white line. If he had and the car had to swerve onto kerb etc then fair enough but it's a non event. It's also hard to tell if the oncoming car deviated from line at all really.

 

[albion]

The comment there of multi dealings with the west yorkshire police made it all interesting, it seeming to fill in on the background.

 

[Drago]

To be fair it could have been the Vatican - when you send them footage of yourself committing an offence you do open yourself up to a bit of light hearted strappado.

Then theres the secondary issue of what sort of righteous fool goes around reporting others when their own behaviour is far from beyond reproach? If there were an offence of being a prat hed be sharing a cell with Bubba.

This one had the chance to give up while he was ahead and didn't take it. The punishment is excessive, but he himself manoeuvred himself into a position where he'd be receiving any punishment at all.

 

[PedallingNowhereSlowly]

Quite honestly, stopping anywhere on a road for a cyclist is dangerous.

I would have probably done the exact same thing in that situation - remained on the left of the centre line and carefully filtered past the parked car. Just as this cyclist did. There's no way I'm waiting around unecessarily for a distracted phone driver to drive into the back of me. They can drive into the carelessly parked BMW instead.

The oncoming driver's alleged move to the left, is no different to what I observe when oncoming drivers hug the kerb to allow road-parked cars to be past. There are places around here where I see it commonly. It's not avoiding action, it is courtesy.

The owner of the parked BMW should be prosecuted for highway obstruction.

The reporting of this offence and magistrates decision, as well as the maximal fine shows clear prejudice. And the fact West Yorkshire Police say cyclists cannot be given fixed penalty notices because they don't have licenses (according to the road.cc article) is also inaccurate.