A mother and daughter who both ‘close passed’ a cyclist while driving in Sheffield want him investigated for “intimidating, aggressive and abusive behaviour."
So we asked people in Sheffield if cyclists complain too much when a car comes closer than the 5ft clearance required by law.
So we asked people in Sheffield if cyclists complain too much when a car comes closer than the 5ft clearance required by law.
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00:00Cyclists quite rightly point out when car drivers actually endanger them and there's a case here on
00:07this particular story about very obvious victim blaming. You have to remember that people driving
00:13cars do put pedestrians and cyclists at danger a lot of the time and that's why far too many people
00:19die or are seriously injured on our roads. They're usually not the drivers of cars but pedestrians
00:25and cyclists who are the ones who suffer the injury and death. Happens far too often, happens
00:32far more with children in Sheffield compared to the national picture and it's something we all
00:37really ought to take really seriously. So as I understand it the police say they're investigating
00:43the crime that relates to the close pass, a potential crime at least, it's right that the
00:48police do that and make their investigation go from there. I would have thought it was
00:57reasonably common sense that pedestrians should have right of way and then actually it used to
01:02be horses isn't it? Pedestrians yeah I think that seems reasonable. And are you seeing it on the roads?
01:11No more than before no. I don't think highway code is widely read anyway so that's it.
01:19Does anything more need to be done to protect cyclists? No.