Suspended sentence for driver who reversed over a bike

[summerdays]

Just read it on Road CC that a driver who had an altercation with a cyclist which ended with him running over his bike in a fit of road rage has actually been given a reasonable sentence.

Recorder Mr Llewelyn Sellick sentenced Gilbert to four months' prison, suspended for 18 months, as well as an 18-month supervision order and 100 hours of unpaid work.

He told him: "It was an incident of road rage. You lost your temper over an incident when driving. I accept that you do regret what happened."

Gilbert was also banned from driving for a year and ordered to take an extended retest and pay £250 in costs, £40 compensation and an £80 victim surcharge.

It is a junction that is well used by lots of cyclists, including myself, though when I first read Mina Road, I thought it was going to be a problem at the roundabout, which seems to have more problems than it's size justifies.