"Taxi ran down cyclist on purpose"

[angusde]

All,

See:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7655229.stm

Hopfully, that'll be one less "professional" driver to worry about, and a few more given pause for thought.

Angus

 

[domtyler]

[PaulB]I didn't see anything wrong here, just another example of the extremely high standard of driving that is evidently present on the roads of the UK. Nothing to see here, move along please.[/PaulB]

 

[4F]

All,

See:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7655229.stm

Hopfully, that'll be one less "professional" driver to worry about, and a few more given pause for thought.

Angus

"I braked and he hit the air and tumbled off his bike."

Umm good defence, what a tosspot

 

[Jake]

bloody hell

 

[Bollo]

Sh1t guys, he could be facing a fine of well over £50 here! Show some sympathy!

 

[Jake]

Travis Bickle

 

[Bollo]

Just in case anyone's in any doubt, I was being sarcastic, although we have yet to hear the sentence.......

 

[gdean]

All,

See:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7655229.stm

Hopfully, that'll be one less "professional" driver to worry about, and a few more given pause for thought.

Angus

I wonder if they would be support in the UK to upgrading this type of behaviour, i.e. using a vehicle as a weapon. Is it so far off attempted murder?

Graham

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

My thoughts entirely – using a vehicle as a weapon, failing to stop after an “accident” – effing little &^%$ - doubt he’ll get more than 6month ban &/or £500 fine

Then again you can drive pissed out of your head, at 110mph, so tired you fall asleep, and kill 2 children, and your out after three and a half years…

 

[rnscotch]

Shameless behaviour i hope he gets at least a couple of years... I had a run in with a black cab in Glasgow city centre a few weeks back. The cab driver was arrested, he forced me into the barriers at the bottom of bath street. I am still waiting to hear back what is happening.

 

[col]

I wonder if he did do an obscene gesture?

 

[ferret fur]

I wonder if he did do an obscene gesture?

Does it matter?

 

[Tharg2007]

why cant they use these terrorism laws that they abuse all the time against this idiot, using a vehicle as a terrorist weapon should be an offense in its own right after 9/11 and that airport gas cylinder attack. He tried to kill and terrorise the cyclist so he is a terrorist!!!

 

[John the Monkey]

I wonder if he did do an obscene gesture?

For christ's sake Col, does that mean you can drive 3 tons of metal at someone with impunity?

People who drive are supposed to be grown ups, and not try to kill the people that upset them, it's in the highway code and everything.

 

[col]

I think it does matter,here is a case that possibly could have happened because of it.I didnt realise you shouldnt kill someone for obscene gestures was in the highway code?