A woman has attempted to run over an autistic man riding a bicycle with her Audi Q7 but instead destroyed a hairdressers

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www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/motorist-arrested-on-suspicion-of-attempted-grievous-bodily-harm-after-autistic-cyclist-is-knocked-off-bike-in-road-rage-crash-9511055.html

Basically woman driving £££ Audi 4x4 tank around Richmond, with children in the back, has argument with autistic cyclist, and drives her car at him in attempt to kill or seriously injure. Succeeds only in demolishing the front of the hair salon.

Hopefully she gets an appropriate sentence commensurate with using a deadly weapon. Doubt it though.

Especially if detectives from Kingston CID come on for a web chat

See, it would never occur to me to kick a car however cross I was. Mostly, that's because it would just hurt myself. I'd be left angry and with a sore foot.

Actually. Can you fit 5 children into a Q7? Does it have seats in the back, or have I missed something?

I assume she was driving like a loon for the cyclist to kick her car in the first place. But to run him over is extreme. I don't know about anyone else, but I drive slower with caution when I have dd's in my car. I'm a different driver when on my own

She should definately lose her license. Silly cah!

Someone on a forum (it may have been MN) once admitted to being so enraged by a white van that drove through a pedestrian crossing when the lights were red, that she swore horribly and hit it with her rucksack.

She was on her way to uni at the time, and it was filled with hefty textbooks. It made a dent!

I think I remember that Tilly. Pretty much the definition of impotent rage.

I'd love to hear rinabean commentate a boxing match between a rhino and a mouse

She sounds completely mad, and IMO she should have her license taken off her for ever.

I presume she was driving like an arse in the first place which is why she got her car kicked and there was an argument. The silly cow is very lucky someone wasn't killed!

I once rammed my shopping trolly into the back of a Q7 in Tesco car park. DD and I were walking behind it having finished shopping and the silly cow driving just reversed back without looking. All at the same time I had to scoop DD backwards, hit the car with the trolley and shout WATCH (first word that came into my head) at the top of my voice.

I hit it so hard the edge of the trolley was dented and my wrist sprained. The silly cow still got out her car to shout at me...but got back in rather quickly...I was taking no prisoners.

Q7s are notorious for blind spots. I wouldn't be surprised if this woman cut the biker up because she didn't see him, he reacted by kicking as he went past - and then God knows, I really hope she didn't mean to do this, bloody hell.

At least you won't hurt yourself if your hit a van with your bag. Impotent rage is one thing, but feeling angry and stupid because you hurt yourself is a whole other kettle of proverbial fish.

Christ. Have you seen this one as well? www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/parking-row-nurse-faces-jail-for-causing-death-of-mother-flung-off-car-bonnet-in-barnet-9525977.html bloody hell

Actually. Can you fit 5 children into a Q7? Does it have seats in the back, or have I missed something?

it's a 7 seater. middle row seats 3, then another optional two seats in the very back.

Wow and in that case the conviction was causing death by careless driving; She was CLEARED of causing death by dangerous driving despite driving at speed with woman on her bonnet and catapulting her off. She'll probably only get a couple of years. Hard to believe.

I had a driver go all road ragey on me when he overtook me on my bike about 50 feet from the junction, cut back into my space and then complained when the rubber of my front bike tyre brushed his car. Not even a mark on his Jag but he was foaming on about calling the police. Told him to go ahead.

He didn't.

LtEve - that's horrible!

Honestly, I wonder whether the driving test shouldn't include some section in managing relationships with other road users.

I am not proud to admit it but by last year I had developed a terrible habit of giving other drivers the finger, etc, and eventually decided this was demeaning and potentially dangerous. It is now my target to get 3 other drivers to signal 'thanks' to me on every journey, and to signal 'thanks' to at least 3 other drivers. My whole day is happier as a result.

I read that Fid, I couldn't quite fathom why careless but not dangerous

LtEve How do they not find the blind spots at the testing stage and design them out? Please don't tell me it is for aesthetic reasons.

Bit more than 'careless' to acquire a large woman on your bonnet as you go is it not Fenton?

Yes why do these cars have such well known blind spots? Surely safety is far more important. I remember my cousin test driving a new honda civic about 7 years ago and as he went to pull out of the space in the forecourt he suddenly stopped and said "who the hell has put that spoiler right in the middle of the rear window?" I turned round and sure enough the rear window was split in two by this huge ugly spoiler. He parked up again and we left. No way ddi we feel safe in that. How stupid are those designers?

Not sure why I asked the victim of the blind spot.

. It probably is aesthetics.

The car we have now is pretty good, by has quite a small read window. Between buying it and picking it up the dealership had stuck one of their advertising stickers in it. We all got in, DH went to reverse, switched the engine off and demanded they removed the sticker. It seriously compromised the view out of the window (it took them over an hour using nail varnish removed to get it all off. Idiots)

Fid no, I didn't actually threaten them. It was just my way of suggesting they stop driving like a cunt. I then ran away rather swiftly. (I was out for a run at the time.)

Fideliney
"Well I am trying to see another side here but I'm honestly struggling to come up with a plausible version from which she emerges as an adequate motorist/fit mother/reasonable human being/innocent victim of circumstance."

Cyclist kicking the crap out of the side of the car, driver turns wheel to get away hits accelerator as she is scared/frightened of the bloke kicking the crap out of her car.

car accelerates, back end kicks out, cyclist is knocked off the bike but clear of the car, rear wheels of 4x4 go over the rear wheel of the bike, 4x4 goes into side of car, driver panics and holds accelerator down over corrects the steering and goes through the shop window.

All supposition but as plausible as woman driver intent on killing cyclist.

Thank God no one was killed.
As a car driver in London this sort of story petrifies me- I feel invincible enough in an average car- those posh tanks completely divorce the driver from other road users.

i was stopped at some traffic lights on my motorbike once. a car pulled up behind me and didn't quite stop in time and hit my bike. i turned round and THUMPED the bonnet, leaving a massive dent. turns out the car was driven by one of my husbands customers, and was actually one of my husbands loan cars
i realise this story is of no relevance to the thread, but it made me laugh afterwards…..

DH once swung a bag of shopping - containing several tins of chopped tomatoes - at a car that failed to stop at a pedestrian crossing and nearly flattened him. Caused a satisfying dent apparently.

We have a big SUV (by circumstance, rather than choice) and the blind spot is horrendous. DH bought a little convex mirror that sticks on the wing mirror and eradicates it, but I can't helping thinking that Ford could have tried a little harder to design a car without such a dangerous flaw

I'm trying to picture it Boney I think Quark is right - we need a reconstruction.

Made me laugh kelper