Instant Karma

Good!

Double good!!

Hooray!

Oh, I love a bit of Karma Just a shame it's not always so instant that you can actually witness it!

they ought to have called the police too so he could get charged with leaving the scene of an accident...

Prat !
Well done that dad

Well done, Dad but I wouldn't have called the police or he might have been done for assaulting the moron.

He will probably be on CCTV and the police will knock on 'his' door accusing him of assault.

Personally I would say 'good on yer fella'

A heartwarming story! Instant karma indeed.

Wonderful story! Flippin idiot got his comeuppance

I was walking on a path, in a park, in Brussels when I was almost run down by a cyclist. He clearly thought it was my fault for daring to venture on to a footpath and swore at me.

Good Man! A couple of years ago I nearly got mowed down on a controlled crossing. Some B man just rode through the red lights as I was starting to cross. He just carried on, but the car that was waiting at the lights blasted his horn after him.

It's good to see I'm not the only one who feels increasingly irritated by ill mannered, aggressive cyclists. Well done that man.

I recognise that not all car drivers are careful around cyclists (or horses or pedestrians either) but so many cyclists seem to feel that the rules of the road, or even simple good manners, don't apply to them.

Walking dogs, or children around our local reservoirs is becoming less pleasurable due to the number of cyclists racing along the paths. They're silent but deadly, I've never heard a shout or a bell to warn they're coming and they don't seem able to slow down for dogs or children. To make matters worse, the paths they're using are clearly marked No Cyclists. I don't mind sharing the paths with them on quiet mid week days, providing they show a bit of sense around dogs/children/elderly/less mobile folks but there does seem to be a sense of entitlement. Rant of the morning over.

There are lots of footpaths in Colchester that are divided into pedestrian and cycle lanes. These are clearly marked but nobody seems able to read any more!

I was almost run over yesterday he literally screeched to a halt.I said you need a loud bell.He rode off shouting that I needed a f-- hearing aid.I shouted back that I had two,but they were just the ordinary ones.

I'm a cyclist. Most of us do stick to the rules, but like children you only notice the 'naughty' ones. Those, the majority, who don't jump lights, cycling dangerously on pavements or yell abuse, hate the few who give us a bad name.

Well done that Dad.

I agree about aggressive and arrogant cyclists. I have a friend who was a demon with his umbrella poking in the wheel spokes when cyclists tried to sail through zebra crossings while pedestrians were on them. I have noticed, however, that where I live, shared cycle/pedestrian paths, which are quite separate from roads, seem to work very well. Perhaps that is because they are distanced from speeding cars and both users feel safer and more comfortable ?? and, thus, more considerate and courteous.

I didn't post this as an anti-cyclist message, like Anya says there are many safe, sensible cyclists who stick to the rules. I actually started to feel sorry for the cyclist as I drove away as there were several people shouting at him, but then I remembered the crying little girl and the fact he hadn't stopped.

Glad he was taken to task! I hope he learned a lesson from it, but I doubt it.

This cyclist sounds like a careless/inconsiderate/irresponsible oaf.

Just to inject a sense of perspective though, there was just one pedestrian killed by a cyclist on the pavement between 2009 and 2013. During the same period, there was an average of 34 pedestrians a year killed by motorists driving on the pavement.

This probably goes some way to explaining the priorities with which manpower is allocated to the policing and enforcement of road safety.

I think it is a symptom of the selfishness of some people now, also their sense of entitlement. All about me, me, me and no thought for what others may be feeling.

Instant Karma

Another impatient driver pushing past when there isn't room to pass safely.

What irritates me beyond measure is the way cyclists, safe and unsafe, feel they occupy some high moral ground that makes all their sins excusable and, generally, above the law, whereas being a car owner and driver is a sign of moral turpitude that immediately puts you in the wrong. Despite the fact that many cyclists are motorists as well.

"many cyclists are motorists as well"

Indeed. When motorists and cyclists get arguing they often forget that most cyclists drive a car, but far fewer motorists ride a bike. That has a profound effect on the balance of ignorance.