(Bicycling) Helmet cam brings justice for road rage victims

[kristopher]

Helmet cam brings justice for road rage victims
The footage – all too typical of what urban cyclists regularly see – has helped convict dangerous drivers


Helmet cam footage has helped convict dangerous drivers. Photograph: David Hartley/Rex Features

We all have those moments where something happens and we wish we had a camera. This is as true on the road as anywhere else. Many cyclists now use helmet cams to record their journeys, good and bad, and in the past month several have even helped convict dangerous drivers.

The Birmingham cyclist Rob Styles was riding home in August last year, when a driver pulled up alongside him as he tried to join a right-hand filter lane.

Styles said: "I saw the driver coming along from behind, already shouting. He then pulled up on the inside of me, mounting the pavement and got out of the car, shouting. There was no build-up, no pre-cursor, it just happened."

Styles added: "The driver's explanation to the police is that I was 'in the way, blocking the road'. As the police pointed out to him, that's not how people should drive."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2012/feb/22/youtube-justice-road-rage-victims?intcmp=122

[madokie]

1. I wish my legs would allow bicycling

As a kid in the '50s living in the country riding on gravel roads bicycles were almost useless unless you wanted to fix a flat for about ever mile of travel. That got old fast. Today tires are so much better, my brother who rides a lot hardly ever has a flat tire

[kristopher]

2. He probably has the luxury of lots of paved roads.

Yeah those old hard rock and gravel roads were good for mule sleds and walking. I learned to ride a bicycle on one myself, but the process was painful since it you ended up in the ditch by either trying to avoid hitting rocks or by actually hitting them.
Fortunately for my young body we moved north to a suburban landscape where the only obstruction on the road was an abundance of moving automobiles.

[madokie]

3. Chert rock is what we have around here mostly and when broken its sharp as a knife

The fear of road rash helps to keep me firmly in the seat of a four wheeled vehicle.