[Closed] Motorist tweets of knocking off cyclist...

Excitable1 / Bollox, Steviecapt has got far more excited about this than I could have ever done ! No not in the least, been riding cycles too long to get upset about these things mate, just my view, nothing will ever change about these drivers unless thier made to by hitting their pockets only thing they understand lol

Right, watched the video and she comes across as wanting to be the victim. Well, tough excrement you silly girl.

Anyway, back to my scientific research. On my was I witnessed only 1 RLJ (if you don't count the BMW abusing the ASL) and that was a bicycle, ridden by a woman. So there it is, a fact, it's all women!

No sympathy at all for this idiot, she new she hit someone at the end of The day and then laughed about it! Makes me sick shell prob get off lightly I hope hey make an example of her stupid b@(ch

Sorry the silly bint deserves everything she gets! I hope she loses her job & her license because she bloody well deserves to.

Her attempt to try & gain sympathy from the audience is disgusting & insulting.

As for that bloke with her, hes just as bad!

No mention of apologising directly to the cyclist from either!

watched the video and whilst i can understand legally that she has to be careful what she says, the bloke trying to say it is just one of those things.

No it was hit and run, she left the scene of an accident, should she have stopped at the time, it would have been bad enough but to just drive off. Sorry she deserves everything she gets.

To be honest i think she would have been better off saying nothing, let the police do their bit and then once that was out of the way, then she could start making excuses.

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The law in the UK is broken, the point of a driving licence has been forgotten. they were there to ensure drivers were safe to be on the road.

I might have had some sympathy for her on the basis that it may have just been an accidental clip of the bars on her wing mirror, but the tweet was a bloody full on brag and rant about it which when read along side her tweet of her speedo at 95mph proves her to be a bloody in considerate dick head on the road and she needs to be ****in prosecuted for it.

What if it an was accidental clip of an old lady's shopping trolley or school child's bag when she was driving like a dick head, there would be no question of prosecution.

After watching closely the video, she displays virtually no guilt or shame, instead I see annoyance, alarm, nervousness and evasiveness (winking, shaking her head, bearing her teeth, corners of her mouth up, shrugging, looking away).

She in no way shows any remorse for what she did, compounded by the language used; "stupid tweet", not "stupid me", "everyone does it!" means "don't blame me!" and so on. Although she realises that it WAS wrong, she still hasn't understood yet WHY she was wrong, which in itself is troubling.

Looking at it rationally, I and perhaps others here, see in this girl a reflection of everyone who has ever hit / nearly hit / threatened us, and who gives us a rare chance to express our feelings (even via a forum) against those we can't otherwise.

Therefore on an irrational and personal level, she is a * and deserves everything she gets (like the fat * in the blue Y reg L200 near Corwen on Tuesday morning - see?)

As for the drivers with more than 12 points, this can happen if for example you are on 6 points (I know, careless in itself), then go through several GATSO's along a stretch of road (yes I know). Four SP40's = 12 points + 6 points = 18 points, or multiple offences (uninsured AND speeding AND defective tyres, etc).

If at the magistrates you must plead exceptional hardship (e.g. genuinely bad like "I live in the middle of nowhere and my kid has cancer and I need to get him to hospital every week", not "poor me I'd lose my job").

Quite how you'd get to 36 though I'm not sure, other than being exceptionally exceptional, or something.

There's no remorse in that video. Just expressions of self-pity. I don't think she's normal. To boast about something like this, then have the story go global as it has, to be suspended and have your whole future in doubt, and to react without any apparent feelings of guilt... well I hope she has her licence taken away and is given a full psychological test before she's allowed back in charge of any kind of road vehicle...

I think the dopey cow is just trying to avoid admitting any guilt to the hit and run in the hope that lack of any other evidence will see her get away with it.

schnor, whilst i know what your saying the point is though that the driver with 36 points has not been disqualified. S/he is still allowed to drive, and that is the shocking part of it. It should be hit 12 points you loose your licence with no exceptions. No hardship clause, you know the rules when you take a licence, if you get caught breaking the rules tough.

Driving is a privilege not a right!

Blimey, just read the article and watched the TV interview with Emma Way linked on the previous page. It says the man with her, Simon Nicholls, is her solicitor - what an idiot, why did he ever allow her to do the interview? They've made a bad situation even worse. She comes off terribly in the interview. I can see he must have advised her to be careful what she said but all she seems sorry for is the trouble she's caused for herself. Presumably the aim was to drum up some public sympathy but I would have thought it's had exactly the opposite effect. Certainly any sympathy I may have had, not for her actions btw, but sympathy for a young girl way out of her depth and very publicly in alot of serious trouble has completely evaporated after that self absorbed "poor little me" act. If I ever need the advice of a solicitor I must remember not to go to him!

Wow. Well that didn't go well.

I think the dopey cow is just trying to avoid admitting any guilt to the hit and run in the hope that lack of any other evidence will see her get away with it.

Except she did just admit to it, there on that video. She doesn't come across as the brightest button in the box.

I was just thinking the same as billyboulders - no way would I hire him as my solicitor if he let her do that interview.

That was a beautiful interview, as has been said, no remorse about what she did, only about the creek she now appears to find herself in without a paddle.

I'd suggest she change her name to Emma No Way on her CV, but Hans Rey might get upset with the association!

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The new mayor of an area of Suffolk is recovering after driving his car into a branch of Tesco Express.

Terry Buckle, who was made Mayor of St Edmundsbury in a ceremony last week, accidentally drove a silver Vauxhall Vectra through the doors of the supermarket in Lawson Place, Bury St Edmunds.

He was unharmed but suffered shock and was taken to hospital as a precaution.

How's he done that then?? I'd love to hear his explanation.

He got it pretty accurately through those doors - wonder if he thought "Express" meant it was a drive-thru.

Miss Way must be worried knowing that the elected officials in the South East are such sticklers in safe driving 😀

when watching that interview,i kept imagining a line of irate cyclists with weapons (like that bit from airplane film with the hysterical lady) 😆

this is actually how her apology came across to me

Her solicitor, is as good at his job as she is at driving. He should have primed her very carefully before letting her into that interview.

She is clearly only sorry about one thing and that's not hitting a bloke on a bike.

Where's Max Clifford when you need him?
Oh, yeah... the day just brightened up. 😀

Quite how you'd get to 36 though I'm not sure, other than being exceptionally exceptional, or something.

According to an FoI request made by the Green Party's London Assembly member, around half of drivers in London with over 12 points are still driving... and one bloke was on 30. That's London, England, with its famously sparse public transport.

http://road.cc/content/blog/84223-cycling-and-law-what-your-experience-asks-jenny-jones

that girl is the best thing that could of happened to the cyclist she hurt, everytime she opens her mouth people feel more sympathy for the cyclist and more agrieved against her, hope she does a few more videos, shes helping the cyclists cause no end and the rest of us at the same time, cant fault it, they make a good team emma way and her side kick the solicitor

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Her solicitor, is as good at his job as she is at driving. He should have primed her very carefully before letting her into that interview.

She is clearly only sorry about one thing and that's not hitting a bloke on a bike.

Agree obviously she is sorry that events have caught up on her.

Disregarding Ms Wray and sidekick solicitor, what about the interviewer?! "What did it [the tweet] say?"
"I don't remember exactly. That I'd knocked a cyclist off his bike"
[Next question].
Seriously! Why did he not come back on that? Along the lines of - it was quite memorable actually considering what you'd just done, I'll read out the tweet for you if you don't quite remember...
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Seriously! Why did he not come back on that? Along the lines of - it was quite memorable actually considering what you'd just done, I'll read out the tweet for you if you don't quite remember...

Because he's trying to get a good soundbite and please the audience. Attacking her will do him no good and most viewers will be sympathetic drivers, as opposed to cyclists.

Agreed. The interviewer was ridiculously soft. The interview looked more like a PR stunt arranged by the lawyer.

Not really a very good PR stunt if so. Or will the more dimwitted (car drivers) watch that and think that actually she didn't do anything wrong?

I got too cross to watch it all, did the lawyer ever say anything or did he just sit there?

I got pissed off with it aswell, a sympathetic interviewer let her getaway with a half apology and glossing over other the actual issues - and she's only really sorry about what's happened to her.

Just watched the interview. Why oh why did she agree to do that? She doesn't refer to the actual incident, I guess her solicitor advised her not to mention it. So it just comes accross as a whiney, self indulgent plee for sympathy that she has been caught out.

I blame the parents*. To her it's all about being caught, not responsibility.

* not really of course, but it's something parents should bear in mind.

"I'm really really very sorry that I got caught."

So it just comes accross as a whiney, self indulgent plee for sympathy that she has been caught out

Just got round to listening to the jeremy vine thing, what a couple of nobbers (vine and that swivel eyed loon lorry driver) driver spouts a load of hate and Vine instead of saying that's not the issue or that's 1 example of bad cycling he just asked carlton to defend cyclists. grrr.

Basically her entire thing was "I made a mistake, I should have kept quiet about running someone over". Not once did she sound like she was sorry for actually hitting the bloke.

comes across like that to cyclists on here, wonder how it plays all the drivers out there who will be a lot more sympathetic.....?

I see what you mean, but I don't think she came accross in a like-able way to most people. She also did admit that she hit the cyclist, although apparently it was only a tap. So she is admitting she hit the guy, and presumably there are other witnesses to suggest it was more than a mere tap. It's not looking good for her.

As far as her job goes, we'll never know the full picture. She may well be all kinds of useless at work anyway, I really doubt someone who was good at their job and of value to the company would be sacked / suspended for this.

As regards the incident, she refused to admit that she'd done any harm to the cyclist. She says something like "if I could see he was hurt" she'd say sorry, but in the absence of an admission or an apology it seems she doesn't think she caused him any harm or injury and doesn't therefore owe him an apology.

It did say in one report that she has been suspended at work. Small result atleast.

What she said...

"If I did cause any damage to him, I would obviously apologize," Way says of Hockley. "But I didn't feel him even touch my car, so — apart from his handlebar donked the wing mirror.... If I knew that he was hurt, I never would have driven off. That is just not in my nature."

"I just want to say sorry [for] any discomfort it's caused for anybody. And if I could take back doing that tweet, I would," she says. "You know, my whole career is at risk now."

thing is until I saw the interview I was of the opinion she shouldn't loose her job, but goshdarnit she's changed my mind...

I think her punishment should be whenever she meets people, or enters any room containing strangers she MUST introduce herself, and say what she did.

It did say in one report that she has been suspended at work. Small result atleast.

Hopefully they'll sack her for bringing her profession into disrepute. No company wants to be associated with a moron like her, especially a professional services company.

Is she chewing gum on national telly too ?.... if my mother were alive she'd get a clip round the ear 'ole just for that !

apart from his handlebar donked the wing mirror

Like the driver that hit me in similar circumstances a month or so ago? The driver that stopped. Then wound down their window, fiddled with a broken wing mirror but then drove off in a hurry as I rode up to the car, one-handed with my painful arm at my side? The police took interest in that - if there's an injury they take it as an incident to be investigated and in this case a hit and run. Handlebar - or arm, hand, how would you know? Better to stop and check eh.

If you're not aware of this Ms Way, maybe a re-test wouldn't be a bad idea, twitter idiocy issues aside.

apart from his handlebar donked the wing mirror

What a bubbled headed idiot. See the gap between these lines -- that's how much sympathy I have for her "predicament". She did a hit and run and probably got away with it, but then she tweeted about!

"Social media is blown out of all precaution"(sic).

Yeah you should know, moron

I can't get over how she sees the cyclist as a thing, she's sorry if she damaged the cyclist. You damage a car wing mirror, you HURT people, unless you don't see them as people. Social media is rapidly exposing how many people in this country actually think and view others. She's a prime example, spouting all sorts of twaddle on Twitter, if you do it often enough and others agree you come to believe it.

I hope she gets banned from driving, and properly fined. I hope she loses her job, not for what happened but the media circus that she's caused, that interview being a point in case.