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.

Ford focuses (not the current model, but the one before it) have ridiculous blind spots. Clearly they were designed by people who never reverse a car.

Fideliney

If we had a reconstruction it would take all the fun out of making up what happened

But there are scenarios which would mean that the driver didn't cause the incident or deliberately injure anyone.

If we had a reconstruction it would take all the fun out of making up what happened

Nooo. We could have matchbox cars and whizzy software and plasticine witnesses with knitting needle eyelines and angry Mners banging their fists emphatically on desks. It would be great

But there are scenarios which would mean that the driver didn't cause the incident or deliberately injure anyone.

Preempting the econstruction already?

"Preempting the econstruction already?"

Nah, Just joining in :)

but I do like your idea of MNers around a desk.

Boney - in the photos, the mangled bike is in the same side of the car as the bashes from hitting the van, and the van is parked in front of the car..also the bodywork on the car shows no sign of having had the crap kicked out of it.

:off to join detectives from Kingston CID:

Fideliney - I think between us we could muckle up enough Playmobil witnesses?

And a Playmobil hairdresser

Actually as Kingston CID will be very soon promoting me to Superintendent I will be able to afford this from my crime reconstruction budget.

Yes. Can someone ask MNHQ?

@ Playmobil hairdresser

Ooo. Bagsy one of the little pusher doodahs.

Marvellous, Maryz.

Do they stock those head sets in Argos?

Quark

In the pictures the car isn't in the shop front, so (I suspect) that they where taken during the cleaning up operation.

Good grief! What the hell goes through someone's head when they behave like this, with children in the car ffs?

Tillly, that was me who dented the van! Fancy you remembering that. It was instinctive - the van tried to run me over, came within an inch, and without thinking I swung my bag at it. Which happened to be full of heavy textbooks. (I was on a pedestrian crossing - the driver used the green man holding up the rest of the traffic as a way to get out of his drive.)

edam Every time I see a white van man ignoring lights, I glare in rage, and then I remember your story and sigh happily.

Why do people say "white van man" as though they're a BREED?? It's weird and possibly offensive.

Is it? I do hope so.

I'm not really one for sparing the feelings of people committing driving offences.

A 'breed' is probably a good word for them. TBF the van isn't always white though.

Since I gave up on getting a certificate from my I spy cars book, I only notice makes of vehicle if the driver does something annoying, or it's unusually coloured (teal, purple, pink, yellow).

Presumably our average blue van man can tell the difference between red and green, and that's why my rage is always occasioned by a white van man?

Tilly it's not about men who commit offences but rather about the lumping together of men who drive white vans for their work...it's so disparaging "Oh...a white van man" it's rude!

I'm not talking about those who offend...but about the fact that this phrase seems to be the way people describe working class men in vans.

White van men.

wtf/

It's not about working class men in vans. It's about gits in vans. A greater proportion of white van men may be working class than Saab drivers, but that doesn't mean that the stereotype of 'white van man' is classist. Refusing to discriminate on class doesn't mean checking the social class of drivers before you allow yourself to notice that some of them are shits on the road.

There's so many of them about MrsW. If men in white vans all drove carefully/didn't tailgate/drive like arses etc the phrase would never have come about.

I doubt any male van drivers are offended.