A few things from this incident I would like to mention.
Firstly, I wondered if it had been picked up in the press so googled "car crash hair salon uk". The number of stories that came up about drivers ploughing into hair salons was amazing. You think it would be a rare event, but there was one in Feb in Solihull (which killed a teenager), one in Denholn in 2013 (which killed two people), in Jan someone crashed into a hair salon in blackpool, and another couple in 2013. Amazing. Either drivers hit a lot of stuff or hair salons have some magical property which attracts cars like a strong magnet. I would start a campaign to paint all hair salons bright yellow and put a polystyrene helmet on the top, but I fear it might actually be taken seriously as opposed to people actually wondering why drivers hit so much stuff.
Secondly, the driver in this incident probably will come up with something and will keep her licence and be fined and told not to do it again. But think about it. Either the driver got so outraged that they aimed 2 tonne of metal at another human being with such force that they took out a van and a building, or they are so woefully incompetent at driving that they weren't trying to hurt the cyclist but panicked and floored it in a random direction. Either way, I would think this driving should be classified as falling somewhat below what we could class as competent and surely driving through a building in a 30mph residential road should require the driver to take a retest and extra training at the very least?
