North Yorkshire Police says original decision not to act on footage which showed a 4x4 driver close pass a cyclist before reversing back down the road towards him, hitting a dog in the process, “was wrong” and that an investigation is “required” cycling
Update, 13/08/22: North Yorkshire Police has said that their initial decision not to act on footage which showed the driver of a 4x4 close pass a cyclist on a country lane before reversing back down the road towards him, hitting a dog in the process, was “wrong” and that an investigation into the incident is required.
According to the chief inspector, the review concluded that “the initial decision was wrong and that an investigation is in fact required.” The incident happened on the morning of Tuesday 5 July 2022 on Orcaber Lane near Austwick, in the south west corner of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The incident starts at 1 minute 7 seconds into this video, shot from a rear-facing camera.
“I was saved from the encounter I feared by his running over a dog that fell from a quad bike that he forced off the road.”Rule 202 says, among other things, that drivers should He added: “I pointed out to the PCC that the York and North Yorkshire Road Safety Partnership Safer Roads Strategy 2021-26 states that ‘Pedal cyclists account for a high and increasing proportion of all KSIs over the last five years’.”
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