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Brisbane motorist who drove at cyclist charged with attempted murder

Incident happened in early hours of Saturday morning

A motorist who deliberately drove at a cyclist in Brisbane has been charged with attempted murder.

The incident happened in the southern suburbs of the Queensland city at around 4.30am on Saturday morning, reports News.com.au.

The cyclist, a 42-year-old male, was riding his bike on Wirraway Parade when the motorist, driving a 4x4, struck his rear wheel.

After the cyclist stopped, the woman is alleged to have driven at him, with the rider having to jump over a fence of a house on Lapwing Street to avoid being hit by the vehicle.

The cyclist sustained leg injuries in the incident and was taken to hospital for treatment and later discharged.

The woman stopped further along the street and was arrested by police, who said that she and the victim were not known to each other.

She has subsequently been charged with attempted murder, dangerous driving, and five counts of wilful damage, and is due to appear on Monday at Richland Magistrates Court.

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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brooksby | 2 years ago
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Did she tell the police, "Sorry - wrong person"?

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0-0 | 2 years ago
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Damn, it's like reading one of those dystopian novels set in the future, where justice is swift.
Committed the crime on Saturday.
Sentenced on Monday.
Banished to Mars on Tuesday, to be worked to death in the mines.

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mdavidford replied to 0-0 | 2 years ago
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0-0 wrote:

Damn, it's like reading one of those dystopian novels set in the future, where justice is swift. Committed the crime on Saturday. Sentenced on Monday. Banished to Mars on Tuesday, to be worked to death in the mines.

...where they'll lead an heroic uprising of the oppressed victims of the War on Motorists...

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adamrice replied to 0-0 | 2 years ago
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Dystopian or utopian?

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Jenova20 replied to 0-0 | 2 years ago
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0-0 wrote:

Damn, it's like reading one of those dystopian novels set in the future, where justice is swift. Committed the crime on Saturday. Sentenced on Monday. Banished to Mars on Tuesday, to be worked to death in the mines.

Or in the UK: She claimed the sun was in her eyes, and was driving carelessly - resulting in a suspended sentence...

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eburtthebike | 2 years ago
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So, in cyclist hating Australia, deliberately driving at a cyclist gets you a charge of attempted murder, but in the UK, you're only charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving.  https://road.cc/content/news/driver-used-car-weapon-knock-cyclist-bike-2...

I've said it before and I'll doubtless say it again, the law isn't just an ass, it's the assiest ass in all of assville.

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Flintshire Boy replied to eburtthebike | 2 years ago
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Ass suredly, ass second that. Needs sorting. But we don't seem able to sort stuff in this country. Don't know why.

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TheBillder replied to Flintshire Boy | 2 years ago
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Flintshire Boy wrote:

Ass suredly, ass second that. Needs sorting. But we don't seem able to sort stuff in this country. Don't know why.

Because our glorious leaders lack any kind of philosophy of what needs doing and the courage both to take on vested interests and do what's right but not necessarily what the focus group / pollster / party conference / Daily Mail suggests?

They are glorified marketers: what will sell best to (a) the donors, (b) the media and (c) the electorate? - in that order.

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Jenova20 replied to eburtthebike | 2 years ago
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eburtthebike wrote:

So, in cyclist hating Australia, deliberately driving at a cyclist gets you a charge of attempted murder, but in the UK, you're only charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving.  https://road.cc/content/news/driver-used-car-weapon-knock-cyclist-bike-2...

I've said it before and I'll doubtless say it again, the law isn't just an ass, it's the assiest ass in all of assville.

 

Killing the cyclist in the UK probably wouldn't have even given the murderer a prison sentence.

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hawkinspeter | 2 years ago
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Ambitious charges, but will a Brisbane jury convict a driver of attempted murder?

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OnYerBike replied to hawkinspeter | 2 years ago
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I doubt it - if it's anything like UK law, attempted murder requires intent to kill, which I imagine will be hard to prove beyond reasonable doubt. The driver could simply argue she only intended to seriously injure the cyclist. In a slight quirk of the law, murder itself doesn't actually require intent to kill - intent to cause serious injury is enough (if the victim does in fact die as a result). https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/homicide-murder-and-manslaughter

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