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Starling's Green, Clavering (Google Maps)Road rage driver assaults teenage cyclist after clipping him with wing mirror
Police are appealing for witnesses after a teenage cyclist was allegedly assaulted and left bruised by an enraged driver who confronted the boy after clipping him with his wing mirror on a narrow country lane.
According to EssexLive, the incident occurred on Saturday 10 September, between 12.15pm and 1pm, on the Starling’s Green road near Clavering, Essex.
As the teenager was riding his bike on the narrow road, he was struck by a motorist’s wing mirror. After hitting the cyclist, the driver – a man reported to be in his 50s – turned his Mercedes around and confronted the youngster.
The motorist then dragged him from his bike and threw him to the ground, before tossing the bike into a nearby ditch and driving away. The teenager allegedly suffered bruising in the apparent road rage-induced assault.
The suspect has been described as a clean-shaven man in his late 50s with a stocky build and grey hair. He was wearing a neck chain, blue shirt and blue jogging bottoms at the time of the incident.
> Cyclist punched repeatedly by motorist in road rage incident
“If you have any information, dash cam or other footage in relation to this incident, then please get in contact with us,” a spokesperson for Essex Police said.
“You can let us know by submitting a report on our website or by using our online Live Chat service available Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) between 10am-9pm.”
Anyone with information can also contact Essex Police by calling them on 101.
Last month, we reported that a 65-year-old cyclist was left with a dislocated shoulder and compound fracture to his arm after being assaulted by a motorist, who turned on the cyclist while arguing with another driver about a minor car crash in Derby.
Glenn Holland, a former army medic, claims that as he approached the scene of the incident, one of the motorists involved in the collision accused him of cycling on the road instead of the bike path.
He says the driver then pushed him to the ground, before stealing the camera attached to his bike.
After obtaining a PhD, lecturing, and hosting a history podcast at Queen’s University Belfast, Ryan joined road.cc in December 2021 and since then has kept the site’s readers and listeners informed and enthralled (well at least occasionally) on news, the live blog, and the road.cc Podcast. After boarding a wrong bus at the world championships and ruining a good pair of jeans at the cyclocross, he now serves as road.cc’s senior news writer. Before his foray into cycling journalism, he wallowed in the equally pitiless world of academia, where he wrote a book about Victorian politics and droned on about cycling and bikes to classes of bored students (while taking every chance he could get to talk about cycling in print or on the radio). He can be found riding his bike very slowly around the narrow, scenic country lanes of Co. Down.
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It did?
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wing-mirror
Whether mounted on the door or not, I reckon wing mirror is far more used in everyday speech than door mirror, and immediately understood by people. It is far from the first case of something in English evolving well beyond its original, narrowly defined meaning.
Road tax is used far more than VED - it's still incorrect tough.
THOUGH
Don't make them hate themselves!
Or, "incorrect, tough"?
Well, lack of a comma I'd say is worse.
Wonder where they stand on the Oxford comma ?
Only barbarians, the bl00dy minded, and the ill-educated (and the minions of our new health secretary) fail to use the Oxford comma
Without an Oxford comma a report on a conference on sex work goes from: "We invited the prostitutes, Liz Truss, and Therese Coffey" to: "We invited the prostitutes, Liz Truss and Therese Coffey."
I wouldn't pay for those c
Pedantry about common language usage is amusing, although I do find it odd that many in the UK refer to the ground outside as the floor, when floors are man made structures usually found inside buildings..
In the Netherlands, they're zijspiegels...side mirrors
Well, that sounds like a completely normal reaction to a driving incident
Well, from the description it was a vintage motor car; people get emotional.
Edit - perhaps I should clarify, I was surmising based on the widely reported "wing mirror" detail. Wouldn't want to derail the search for the actual car and driver.
You'd think they'd drive with a bit more care and courtesy in that case
Rose tinted spectacles / golden era?
Maybe the motorist wasn't paying proper attention, and thought that the cyclist had ridden into him...? Still no excuse, mind.
brings back memories of the small dick range rover driver in richmond.
tries to squeeze past the cyclist, hits them with door mirror, assumes cyclist has slapped the car, flies into a rage.
https://road.cc/content/news/153086-local-paper-identifies-extreme-road-...
Well, that was a revelation- makes the Lancashire BMW driver who close-passed me, then threatened to 'fucking flatten' me and knock me off my bike seem like the vicar in Dad's Army.
Mr Angry? The cafe owner, who jumped on his reflective scales in the nud.
What the hell is it with people?
Oh yeah - I'd forgotten that one...
When you order your (enraged) Andy Parsons from Wish
I thought the same. I said on the Facebook page, I bet no cyclist hearing about this is surprised, the number of times drivers turn around and come back for you is pretty common. I also bet most non-cyclists think this doesn't happen at all.
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