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'Suicidal idiot' filmed cycling wrong way against 4 lanes of traffic
A cyclist has been filmed riding through a red light, straight down the middle of four lanes of oncoming traffic.
He was caught on camera by Gedas Palubinskas, a keen cyclist himself, who said the footage demonstrates the need for cyclist numberplates.
Mr Palubinskas, 26, was driving into Newport when his dash cam caught the behaviour. He posted it to YouTube under the title ‘Suicidal Idiot Cyclist’.
Describing him as a ‘chav’, the warehouse worker said: “It's a big and busy road and this was only shortly after rush hour so it was quite busy.
“It's right by the distribution centre so there are lots of lorries that use the road. In the footage you see lorries whizz past the cyclist - it's a 40mph road.
“My first thought was what a total idiot. I saw him through the windscreen of the car in front and he had no hands on the handlebars, both were shoved in his pockets at first. It was unbelievable.
“Then as two lorries went past he bobbed out. It was very reckless.
“To have no hands on your bike and to cycle so dangerously is typical of chavs in the area though unfortunately. They are always doing wheelies and being idiots around traffic.”
The cyclist can be seen faintly through the windscreen of the car in front riding without his hands on the handlebars, before returning them to navigate the lanes of traffic.
Gedas told the Daily Mail: “I have reported drivers before for bad driving but there is never a lot done.
“When they have no number plate and only the cyclist's face, it's a waste of time to report it.
“That's the problem, when people like him cycle like that, they have no licence plate so it is very hard to trace them.”
Back in 2014 we reported how the Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex Katy Bourne said cyclists should "wear some form of identification" so "you can prosecute them for breaking the law.”
Bourne was repeatedly asked questions about cycling at a public meeting she hosted.
She told the meeting: “I would like to see cyclists wear some form of identification like cars have.
“So when they go through traffic lights, you can actually identify them and then you can prosecute them for breaking the law.”
As it's not the Police and Crime Commissioner's role to set policy, though, she said the idea was “one for the legislators.”
This was a “debate that should be had,” she said.
After the meeting, Bourne told The Argus: “It is something that has been at the back of my mind for a long time.
“Because when you use the road, if you are driving a car you have your number plate. Other people register, they pay to use the roads.
“Cyclists don’t, admittedly.
“But there have been occasions when I have been sat at red lights and seen cyclists go through.
“And it is never the responsible cyclists that do this – the ones that belong to the clubs, they are great, they are the ones that adhere to all the laws, so it is the few that ruin it for the many.”
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GUYS this cyclist made a mistake. Lets stick together as the road.cc crew and educate people that this is wrong. YES he should wear helmet. YES he should not be through a red light. YES he should not be wrong way in 4 lanes, but NO he is human NO he is alive.
If any crew member knows this rider then speak to him about this failure. Gedas Palubinskas you are one of us. Dont discriminate against bikers with number plates
Wow! All these comments are worthy of a helmet debate, amazed no one has pointed out the guy is not wearing a helmet. Why?
Daft manoeuvre, where did he come from? 'Out of nowhere' judging by the considerate reaction of the truck drivers. Both must have been high enough up to see the bike coming but appeared to make no effort to slow down.
Bloody car driving vigilantes with dashcams, posting videos on the internet…
Yes I agree the guy is a complete tool for riding like that, what gets me though is I drive 600 miles a week and see plenty of drivers who are breaking the law & yet the Police or other drivers don't seem to notice it or want to do anything about it, post video's on internet, report it to the Police complain to the local rag or daily fail. Yet these individuals are puttting all of us at risk. Yet one cyclist endangers his own life and they all throw their toys out the pram.
Thanks for coming over here from the former Eastern Bloc, and acting like a little jumped up Stasi creep.
To whom are you referring? The cyclist? The driver? The Daily Heil? Or one or other of the good folks of the road.cc community?
Well going by the driver's name, he sounds like he's origins are from outside the UK, so the OP was maybe doing some racist anti-foreigner ranting? If that's the case then the OP might be better off posting in comments on the Daily Mail, where he'll find a lot of like-minded individuals.
The cyclist is an idiot for riding the wrong way on a busy road.
But even if bicycles did have number plates they'd be rear facing and this dashcam wouldn't have pickeed up the number.
Maybe "suicidal" and "idiot" are not inevitably yoked. Current events being what they are, maybe he's an "over-fragile but not incomprehensibly-despondent young soul."
Trump and Brexit and the apotheosis of hate have not yet steered our bikes into oncoming traffic, but hey, who knows how we'll all feel this time next year?
I think you're up to something there, riding against traffic as a political protest against Brexit.
Suicidle?
He was obviously crossing the road at the junction, had he been crossing the road on foot nobody would have said a word.
Hardly sensible but can't really see much wrong with what he did.
Are you high?
The guy who uploaded the video has lost all credibility via the fact he sold or gave away this to the Daily Mail. A paper known to hate cycling and promote commentators and articles that promote anything antibike.
Let's be realistic here: even if number plates for bikes were a thing, would this idiot be using one? He's riding the wrong way down a four lane road, does anyone seriously think he'd be bothered enough to get a reg plate?
So say this cyclist had a number plate, like motor bikes do, whoud this have helped anything?
No, because not only do the police not care for anything like this but motorbikes only have a rear plate so it wouldn't be on the video.
So, if this is a cry for cycle number plates, how are they going to chase down those darn cyclists who chose to not have number plates? What we need are citizen forehead tattoos so we can track the cyclists without number plates.
However, some people might object to forehead tattoos, so we need a way to track down people without forehead tattoos - maybe some kind of RFC chip implanted at birth.
Fucking moron.
we all carry identity with us at all times already - fingerprints, retina, genetics and so on. People like the op merely need to equip themselves with suitable biometric readers and their problem is solved at a stroke.
Two fools in this story. The wrong-way cyclist and the guy who filmed him and deludedly imagines that number-plates stop motorists pulling such stunts.
The first form of foolishness has a self-limiting quality to it though, as Darwin pointed out (though I am curious what on Earth the salmon-cyclist thought he was doing - it's like he's deliberately trying to either be killed or end up on YouTube or both).
The latter form is more of a problem because it can spread unimpeded by natural selection.
"Suicidle"? Is that when you'd quite like to kill yourself, but just can't be arsed?
I'm stealing that.
Ah those Russian, hacking us and putting fake news on Road.cc.
The main thing this story demonstrates is that utter morons can be found at all levels of society.
I'm not convinced that the concept, "levels of society" can really be applied to Newport!
He's not a cyclist. He's a squat goblin. An attention seeking squat goblin who is so unremarkable he has to go around doing this to get people to look at him.
A number plate will not assist in this case - although I would support having the word 'SCUM' tattood across the forheads of such people making it at least possible for the wider public to identify them and understand their attention seeking behaviour.
Number plates to stop lawbreaking cyclists? Hmm - because that's working so well with motorists...
given that most police forces won't investigate any video evidence inless somebody's dead I don't fancy this guys chances, even if he did have the full details of the rider concerned.
Keen cyclist my ars*, made worse by his statement "Gedas told the Daily Mail “I have reported drivers before for bad driving but there is never a lot done.
When they have no number plate and only the cyclist's face, it's a waste of time to report it.
That's the problem, when people like him cycle like that, they have no licence plate so it is very hard to trace them.” " He's already proved in his anti cyclist diatribe that number plates don't work and is just using the phrase "I'm a keen cyclist" to vindicate his anti-cyclist stance.
On the other hand the idiot in the film does look to be a potential Darwin Award winner.