Road rage in Sydney - driver attacks cyclists

The Greg

This sounds all too familiar:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/beijing2008/ ... 12608.html

:evil:

OffTheBackAdam

And pop-up hell on that link too! :evil:

ricadus

Try this instead:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id= ... ey_crash08

Clever Pun

bl00dy hell...

OffthebackAdam... why aren't you using a pop up blocker?

meagain

Sounds as if pure luck that no one killed - wrong word, murdered nearer the mark.

Bad, BAD.

bobpzero

erm bike radar hav a better news post.. yea offthebackadam you should be using firefox. its seriously annoying, they could do with a big outdoor circuit.

Mr E

It's terrible that drivers feel it's fine to take out their issues by endangering cyclists lives, the problem is that it is not an isolated case - it's happened to most of us.

I hope all those involved make a fast and speedy recovery and they catch the driver before he kills someone!

Mike Healey

Mr E wrote:

It's terrible that drivers feel it's fine to take out their issues by endangering cyclists lives, the problem is that it is not an isolated case - it's happened to most of us.

Has it? I don't know anyone who has been deliberately targeted by a driver. Safety put at risk by careless or selfish driving, yes. Hit by ditto, yes. Deliberately, no.

Ngalbrai

What I have found equally (more?) disturbing is the various comments on net news sites here about how the cyclists "deserved it" and how people were shouting and jeering as they drove past the injured.

Having said that on the whole I'd say the level of abuse one gets in sydney is comparable with london really, I have had a few more instances of people shouting random abuse but thats all it is, I can generally catch them up at traffic lights and slash their tyres (just in my head of course).

All the same old sh1te about "road tax" and "use the cycle path" .

andy_wrx

SMH again (my popup blocker works 8) )

Driver's excuses as to what happened (err yeah right, we believe you...)
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/im- ... 23896.html

And now police have charged driver
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/05/ ... 78585.html

nwallace

I tried to figure out how an engine problem could cause sudden braking or for that matter for him to think the best course of action is sudden braking.

When I had a cut out due to fuel line blockage at 70 in the outside lane of a dual carriageway I knocked it out of gear and tried to restart it while watching for a gap to drift back to the left and get off the road. Dunnoh about an autobox though.

If it was genuinely a backfire while switching from PEtrol to LPG which is possible if there was a buold up of lpg followed by nothing (hence the cut out) but blowing the air filter off?