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Thats the thing isnt it?
Shes clearly bereft of an appropriately lined moral compass to live in normal society.
How else do you explain her actions???
I thought i saw a loaf of bread named after her earlier.
Then i realised it said "Thick Cut"
Shes clearly bereft of an appropriately lined moral compass to live in normal society.
I don't think she's alone there.......
PMSL @ numbnut!
she'll be on celebrity big brother next year the way this countries screwed up system works.
she'll be on celebrity big brother next year the way this countries screwed up system works.
^ This
She really is not very clever is she?
Not good at driving
Not good at understanding social media
Not good at talking (proportion / precaution)
Not good at apologising
Things must be screwed up as I am not even attracted to her, despite her being female, blond and not a dog.
That is classic, I'm gonna use that later!!I thought i saw a loaf of bread named after her earlier.Then i realised it said "Thick Cut"
She does seem to see the problem being that she got found out on twitter and that her career is in danger.
The attitude and driving that led her to be in the position to send the tweet in the first place doesn't seem to register as a being anything worht mentioning or apologising for.
The interviewer was more focussed on the Twitter storm than why she had the accident and then drove off in the first place which was a shame.
Am I the only one to be astounded that despite knowing she's going to be interviewed on telly she can't stop chewing her gum?
Edit. Phewww, Excitable spotted it too, the world does have some standards left.
She's on the BBC now saying it was his fault and he was on her side of the road;
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22636230 ]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22636230[/url]
she'd be better saving all this for a potential court visit, wouldn't she?
Presumably she was paying so little attention that she didn't notice there was another independent witness to the collision. That and there's a bit of a funny smell about her evolving story.
TBF the cyclists story has changed a bit too.
"Emma love, that first interview was a bit a of car wreck if honest, no pun intended - so we're gonna try again, first though 24hrs of intensive coaching..."
she came out this
[the public were] "judging me on one man's side of the story".
Sorry luv, no, I was judging you on your side of the story, which, and correct me if I'm wrong was... "Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier. I have right of way - he doesn't even pay road tax! #bloodycyclists"
I felt his handlebar just clip my wing mirror and my initial reaction was to brake, stop and look in the mirror.
No no no no! Its Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre... 🙄 😉
Regardless she still left the scene of an accident, she's toast. All this publicity isn't going to help her either. If there was ever a need for the European strict liability rules to make drivers take some responsibility this is the case.
"The tweet and the incident are completely different, it doesn't relate to the accident," she said. ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22636230)
So how does that work? I no understand.
Aracer [i]"she didn't notice there was another independent witness to the collision[/i]
Got a link to that?
@z1ppy - first page of thread link to cc. The rider talks about his friend that he was riding with and who nearly got hit too.
edit: here: http://road.cc/content/news/84212-norwich-police-seek-driver-who-tweeted-about-collision-cyclist
"I was riding on a country B-road with a friend, and descending a hill on a blind right hand corner", Toby told us. "I was sticking to the left as the corner was blind. A car came round in the opposite direction going much too quickly to make the corner safely. It missed the rider in front of me but hit me, my right leg caught the front right wing. I was thrown up onto the bonnet, I hit the side of windsrceen and the wing mirror. I bounced back off the car and went through a hedge for about 20 metres. I managed to keep control of the bike; the back brake had locked on but I managed to rejoin the road and stop in the middle of it"
Amazingly Toby made it through the incident with only minor damage to himself and the bike. "I have a sore elbow, a bruised knee, nettle stings from riding through the hedge, but nothing serious", he told us. "The headset of the bike is loose from the collision, one of the levers got knocked round the bars and there's bits of nettle in the chain, but I think the bike is intact."
"Myself and my friend burst out laughing when we finally came to a stop, more out of shock than anything else", he said. "You count your limbs and carry on".
The independent witness, or her not noticing? The first has been covered in most articles about it, and clearly I'm wrong about the second as in the latest link it's her mentioning it - maybe she doesn't realise the implication. I suppose we do have to also consider the possibility her story might be accurate, but it seems unlikely.
Sorry, but friend he was riding with won't count as independent witness, witness yes, but not like another person driving along the road who didn't know either party.
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.
I had that about a year ago, waiting in a layby with a group faceing the oncoming trafic a car overtook another cyclist and then pulled back in very quickly to get out the way of an oncoming car.
Bizzarely he was driving an Audi, and stopped, and was very appologetic and concerned fo my hand! I was ready to give him a bollocking but figured a new Audi wing mirror (it was well and trully iripairable) would probably cost him more than anything he'd get even if I did report it.
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Sorry, but friend he was riding with won't count as independent witness, witness yes, but not like another person driving along the road who didn't know either party.
ah true
Emma Way:
"I would like to say my side of the story so maybe they can see where I'm coming from here"
You did love when you said this:
"Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier. I have right of way - he doesn't even pay road tax!"
EPIC FRICKING FAIL.
PS Where you are coming from? I think we know: the wrong side of the road at speed....
Aracer the "independant witness" bit, but it's been explained now.. I'd read he was riding with a m8, but didn't think you could call him "independent", as mentioned/explained above. cheers
Ah - I was missing that it was a friend, had thought it was just another rider.
pretty eyes though...
So, at first it was:
"Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier."
Now it's:
"He did wobble slightly but he was upright, he was fine."
Me thinks it's a bit too late for backpedaling Emma. (No pun intended, well maybe a bit.)
pretty eyes though...
you mean, pretty [i]useless[/i] eyes.
At the back of my mind, I have this nagging worry that she might end up getting away with this... She better bloody not. 😡
OK, so she brags on social media about knocking off a cyclist, claiming that it’s fine because she pays road tax and #bloodycyclists, etc. This is in addition to previous examples of her poor road safety, which include:
a) Speeding considerably above the limit
b) Tailgating
c) Taking photos of the above whilst driving.
She then claims that she only ‘clipped’ him, but he was fine so why bother stopping, and anyway it was his fault because she’s a careful driver who doesn’t hate cyclists.
I wonder who I’m going to believe?
An interview straight from the Lance Armstrong school of remorse, there.
Given the style and content of what she said in the interview and previous (apparent) driving behaviour, there seems to be something unsettling about her personality... along the lines of lack aggressive and lack of empathy...
I do hope the CPS and Police are aware there's likely to be deep manipulation on her part in an attempt to get away with this... and will spot her games
At the back of my mind, I have this nagging worry that she might end up getting away with this... She better bloody not.
Reckon it could go either way to be honest.
It wouldn't surprise me if police think that she's suffered the worst of it by public humiliation, it's probably cost her her job (or at least one hell of a disciplinary) and it's not in the public interest to prosecute.
On the other hand, there is more than enough of her own evidence to incriminate her and do her for consistent dangerous/careless driving.
Even now, the news angles are concentrating on the tweet. Not the actual dangerous driving, the offence of leaving the scene of an accident and the other offences of her speeding/tailgating etc. Not the angle that road tax doesn't exist. Just the tweet. 🙄
Already, the media are playing the "poor dizzy blonde". Never mind the guy who was nearly killed. Again, this is one of those watershed moments of opportunity for furthering the cause of cycling and for educating drivers but no, it's pretty much been wasted. Unless they do actually hand her some jail time, that would send out a huge signal to drivers...
pretty eyes though...
True, but I don't like his earrings very much, so it a no from me I'm afraid.
I can't get over how she sees the cyclist as a thing, she's sorry if she damaged the cyclist.
+100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
For me that was the most important word in this whole sorry affair. When using the road, too many people simply forget that while the other vehicles are objects, their cargo is precious.
"The tweet and the incident are completely different, it doesn't relate to the accident," she said.
the tweet and the incident are unconected????? did she hit two cyclists that day?
An interview straight from the Lance Armstrong school of remorse, there.
Reminded me more of this [s]calculating PR stunt[/s] heartfelt interview...
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If she does get away with it, all cyclists in Norfolk should carry bottles full of piss to spray her with every time they see her. And just keep doing it. After a couple years she'll become a reclous.
Again, this is one of those watershed moments of opportunity for furthering the cause of cycling and for educating drivers
yes, it is ok to run cyclists down...
Interesting - they just had her on another interview on Look East. Basically she's now calling the rider a liar saying he didn't fall off. That she stopped, assessed the situation and saw that he was upright on his bike. She also said she's receiving threats and people hurling abuse in the street of "cyclist killer".
Some conflicting details coming out on both sides of the story - but mainly on her side of the events.
[quote=prezet ]Interesting - they just had her on another interview on Look East. Basically she's now calling the rider a liar saying he didn't fall off.
And he also said he didn't fall off
It's not doing his case any good to change his story or that he failed to report it in the first place (yes - I know there's the thing about "why bother reporting it when you know nothing'll be done). If he'd reported the accident then the case for her having "left the scene" would be much stronger. Perhaps there's a lesson there for all of us.my right leg caught the front right wing. I was thrown up onto the bonnet, I hit the side of windsrceen and the wing mirror. I bounced back off the car and went through a hedge for about 20 metres. I managed to keep control of the bike; the back brake had locked on but I managed to rejoin the road and stop in the middle of it"
And she assessed that situation as it was ok? No need to stop?
Basically she's now calling [s]the rider[/s] herself a liar saying he didn't fall off.
Remind me what exactly she wrote in her tweet?
Oh sorry, I'm forgetting that is completely unrelated.
I can only assume she's going for the angle of making it impossible to find an unbiased jury on this one.
According to this article: [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22636230 ]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22636230[/url]
The car's wing mirror clipped him and he was launched from the bike into a hedge, he said.