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It’s been quite the start to Cycle to School week.
Yesterday on the blog, a Northern Ireland government site was accused of “victim blaming” after encouraging schoolchildren to “be bike smart” – and illustrated this important road safety message with a photograph of an extremely narrow, painted cycle lane…
Then, in the afternoon, a parent and child were cycling home on the School Street on the Leahurst Road in Lewisham when an approaching motorist parked his car by mounting the pavement on the wrong side of the road:
Day 1 of #CycleToSchoolWeek. @LouiseKrupski it’s still toxic on Leahurst Rd on the first day of the school street. Driver goes to the wrong side of the road onto the pavement and then chastises a 6yr old for cycling on the same pavement. You couldn’t make it up @markandcharlie pic.twitter.com/gjn7Mf4lu2
— Greg N (@n00dles71) October 3, 2022
As he exited his vehicle – which is comfortably taking up half the footpath – the driver casually remarks in the direction of the young cyclist and his father, “Shouldn’t be on the pavement, should he?”
Unsurprisingly, both the cycling parent in the video and Twitter were highly critical of the irony-free driver, accusing him of “entitlement”, “cognitive dissonance”, “hypocrisy”, and of embodying “car culture”.
What an entitled hypocrite drivist
— Adam the Moofer ⚡️🚲 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦🌻 (@Adski11892) October 3, 2022
He’d probably have complained at you being a bad parent if you’d let your 6 year old cycle on that road too! Uh I’m so angry on your behalf. I’m glad you said something back to him 🥵
— Dawn Rahman (@velopostgrad) October 3, 2022
He drives onto the pavement and parks on it, blocking half, and then chastises a young child for cycling on that pavement.
Everything you need to know about driver entitlement attitude in the UK summed up in a 1 minute video. https://t.co/vA4gZAnmUN— theRdoubleC (@theRdoubleC) October 3, 2022
Unbelievable. Great come back though!! So many things wrong with this clip, even the trees are taking up stupid amounts of pavement as well .
— Deva (@DevaPete) October 3, 2022
Jesus Christ; also NOTICE the MASSIVE EMPTY MARKED PARKING BAY on the other side of the road, the side he was driving on, that he didn’t use. Saw the pavement, parked on it. Convinced this is parody
— billy (@CycleExmouth) October 3, 2022
“The drivers are at it again,” wrote Mark Hodson, one of the two officers who devised West Midlands Police’s renowned close pass operation, in response to the video. “Having committed the offences of driving on the pavement and obstruction, objects to the child cycling on the pavement, for which there is a specific discretion to allow due to the danger posed by offending drivers.”
It gets worse, however…
A number of inquisitive souls decided to check the parked car’s tax and MOT details. It turns out that the driver – unhappy at the thought of a six-year-old riding his bike on the pavement – is nevertheless quite content to drive and park on that very same pavement a vehicle with an expired MOT and one which is currently registered as off the road:
Definitely report the vehicle. It’s SORN and was driven with no MOT. @MPSRTPC pic.twitter.com/IM5N4oKP8V
— Alex Raha (🦠😷 💉💉💉🚲🚶🏾♂️) (@Rahario) October 3, 2022
I know it’s stereotyping, but when someone drives on the pavement like that & then has the gall to complain about a child cycling, then wanders off arguing, you just KNOW their car will be untaxed, uninsured, un-MOTed. It’s the don’t give a damn’ attitude, it’s so predictable.
— It’s me again (@bicyclecircus) October 3, 2022
I still can’t get over that having committed four offences he has a go at the kid 🤦♂️… I shouldn’t be suprised having dealt with so many offending drivers but that’s a pearler of an idiot 😡
— Mark Hodson (@markandcharlie) October 3, 2022
Just looked and it’s declared SORN, but seen that many other people have checked as well.
So driver with car that shouldn’t be on the road, Shouldn’t be on the pavement, chastises a 6yr old for cycling on the same pavement.
— Adam Bronkhorst (@AdamBronkhorst) October 3, 2022
As I said, Cycle to School week has started well…
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