rammed from behind, cops say your fault.

[TheJDog]

I've no idea why he was asking for details and not immediately calling 999 for being deliberately knocked off and then assaulted by that awful bag.

That's the thing with some of these people - they are in such a hurry they can't wait 2 seconds to give you a bit more space, but they're happy to stand around and argue for 10 minutes if you so much as say boo

 

[Sara_H]

As some one who has been to and officiated at far too many funerals, the hearse and two (limo's) can more often be seen travelling to the deceased's address from the Funeral directors (FD) for the start of procedings than actually travelling to the church/cemetery/crematorium (unless you live on a main route to a cemetery etc. So a hearse and two are not always 'on the job', Is the incident near the final resting place or some distance from one? Either way I cannot see that the cyclist did anything wrong. I have seen JCBs and all sorts caught up in a cortege and never a problem , if the cyclist was turning he would have been out of the way in no time and a good FD will always delay things until everybody is there. The family is always going to be a bit tense, but ignorance is ignorance which ever way you look at it and no excuse.

I missed my Great-Grandad's funeral after getting separated from the courtage at traffic light

 

[cd365]

If I were the cyclist I would raise a formal complaint with the IPCC about the behaviour of the officers concerned.

+1

 

[classic33]

Those working on replacing the road surface stopped all traffic on both sides of the bridge whilst they ensured that every vehicle involved in the funeral got over. That was my uncle's funeral in Ireland.
They even stopped work & turned the machinary off whilst it went past, relying on manual signals instead.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

FFS..the fact that the horn could be heard makes this either a deliberate collision or dangerous (not careless) driving..

But then, by being on the road, the cyclist was being predatory like a teenage girl.....


What the hell has "I'm going to a FYOO-NER-ALL" got do do with the price of scampi fries anyway? Like the brain dead idiots last weekend after the Jane Tomlinson York 10k who were arguing with parking wardens for ticketing their cars dumped on verges by double yellows and across dipped kerb edges and crossing points - "it's DISGUSTING...This is for CHAR-I-DEE". Except I parked down the very same road but using the logic that if I could run 6.2 miles on a Sunday morning then I also have the superhuman ability to gently walk 500 yards from a safe, legal and non obstructive parking space to the event

Doing something for charity, or going to a funeral, whilst deserving due respect, does not give one special dispensation to behave like a moron

 

[Poacher]

Please bear in mind that this is Nottinghamshire Police we're dealing with here - officially the worst force in England.

Other police forces are available........unfortunately not in Notts.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Secondly, I'm sure that a whole 20-30seconds wouldn't have meant they missed the funeral.

I was always told one should be late for one's funeral .

Seriously, though, this is institutionalised prejudice. Australia has it too, unfortunately.

 

[thegravestoneman]

I missed my Great-Grandad's funeral after getting separated from the courtage at traffic light

I am really sorry to hear that.

 

[Misusawa]

If they hadn't ran into him, it looks like they would have planned to overtake him just at the pedestrian refuge. That's plain bad driving.
There is no excuse for the obsceneties and threatening behaviour though.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Like others here I take umbrage at the police officer's comments, but the comments about emergency vehicles also get my goat.

When I did my initial pursuit and response driving course I was taught that even if we have all bells and whistles going it is OUR responsibility if we hit another road user, as they shouldn't be expected to see or hear us. The suggestion was joe public is not to expect a blue light vehicle hairing along the wrong side of the road, so we have to anticipate their not seeing hearing us and drive accordingly - i.e. be ready to stop - and further to that, if we did have a crash, we would be investigated.

That sounded reasonable to me, but it also seems poles apart from this police officer's opinion.

 

[asterix]

I missed my Great-Grandad's funeral after getting separated from the courtage at traffic light

Given the police sergeant's response, I've no doubt he would consider you entirely justified in running the light. If others were injured as a result of your action then obviously they have only themselves to blame and the courts would obviously take this into account.

 

[gambatte]

So the dealing officer is a cyclist too....
One of my acquaintances in the running clubs a long time copper. Decent runner and a regular cyclist. She’ll turn up for runs on the bike, competes in triathlon and has completed Ironman competitions.
I was driving home last night. I was sat a couple of vehicles back, at a red light, approaching a T junction. Traffics considerably lighter than I’d expect. I was only driving through town as the motorway was rammed with a 6 vehicle incident. I saw a cyclist approaching, realised it was her and blipped the horn, gave a quick wave.
Then thought....
HOLD ON
She’s plod
And she’s no worry about the lights, which were on green for her, as she’s just come round the corner on her hack bike, on the pavement, bypassing the lights and continued through the peds.
What an... example?

 

[glenn forger]

It's the new "Some of my friends are black"

 

[Jezston]

Please bear in mind that this is Nottinghamshire Police we're dealing with here - officially the worst force in England.

Other police forces are available........unfortunately not in Notts.

Officially?

This whole thing is pretty ugly, particularly as I had a very good experience with Notts police after a taxi driver there decided to try and run me off the road for daring to not hug the hugger - when I was turning right.

But seriously, f*** everyone involved in this case bar the victim. Deliberately knocking someone down and getting a 'driver awareness course' as a result? I had a flatmate who got one of those for speeding - didn't make the slightest difference to his attitude or behaviour on the road.

 

[MontyVeda]

Outrageous. And odd that yesterday, when it was a bus ramming a cyclist, it seemed to be the cyclist's fault.

Four pages and no bites... you poor thing... OK, I'll give you the attention you crave... cyclist/bus/pringle incident, cyclist brought it on himself (I apologise for stating the cyclists gender)... this incident, the cyclist didn't... can you tell the difference?