How can someone do this!!
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reminds me of this as well
Put windows up, lock doors, danger over
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Put windows up, lock doors, danger over
or reverse?
Put windows up, lock doors, danger over
Best option, obviously but perhaps by some chance those two courses of action weren't available. Including reversing, as stated above^.
Plain sigh at video title "Driver tries to kill cyclists...."
Context is missing from everywhere it seems.
No justification, but that's too many people on a public highway without proper coordination. Is it even sanctioned by local authority?
Not surprised to see something like this happen, if someone sees red on what is obviously not an entirely well received meeting then go figure.
Pointless sitting there screaming how ridiculous it is to of happened, how nobody should ever do it, how unthinkable it is - It did happen, worse has happened, driver should NOT of done it, meet has NOT done much in the way of mitigating risk.
Fail all round.
Context is missing from everywhere it seems.
No justification, but that's too many people on a public highway without proper coordination. Is it even sanctioned by local authority?
Not surprised to see something like this happen, if someone sees red on what is obviously not an entirely well received meeting then go figure.
Pointless sitting there screaming how ridiculous it is to of happened, how nobody should ever do it, how unthinkable it is - It did happen, worse has happened, driver should NOT of done it, meet has NOT done much in the way of mitigating risk.
Fail all round.
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Exactly, context is all well and good, but unless the driver was actually having his or his son's life put in danger then there is no excuse or justification. Unless the driver was confronted by a mob of pitchfork wielding maniacs, in the UK he would be looking at major jail time. (or some community service based on other threads 
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His life wont have been in danger so its quite clear that his actions were reckless and wrong and hopefully he will be punished by law.
That said, I don't think we should fall into the trap of thinking it was a load of innocent law abiding cyclists, either.
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agreed and after reading up about the event it's likely that they were out to annoy people.
Which is why my point on the last page is much more plausible. He couldn't reverse. He'd already pushed his way to deeply into the crowd and found himself surrounded by angry bean eating hippies who didn't appreciate his bullying behaviour. They let him know their particular feelings on the subject, probably by slapping and kicking his car as it pushed through, he panicked and floored it.
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At least if he reversed they would have more chance of seeing him coming though?
He could have done all sorts of things. But he didn't. Irrational behaviour by extremely wound up and irate motorists is nothing new. Irrational behaviour by panicked people is nothing new either.
Uh....that's not strictly true, is it?
For UK cars registered after a certain date (March '01 is it?) - yes, the cost of VED is based on carbon dioxide emissions. For cars before that date and after January 1973, it's based on engine size. And for cars prior to Jan '73, the cost of a tax disc is bog all.
If you're going to climb up onto a high horse, please don't post something wildly inaccurate
kthxbai