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Five penalty points for driver who rammed a cyclist

15 May 2014 London safety
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A driver has been given five points on his licence, and fined £600, after deliberately ramming a cyclist – but the points were for failing to stop, not for the attack. According to the Richmond & Twickenham Times, “while driving his Jaguar X-type in Sawyer’s Hill, driver Jon Weale pulled up alongside a cyclist and his passenger shouted abuse about who had right of way”. Weale then subsequently drove his car at the cyclist.

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