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Council deputy leader left-hooked by white van man – while riding in emergency cycle lane
West Sussex County Council may be ripping out its pop-up cycle lanes that last year featured in a Department for Transport video on emergency infrastructure – but they just can’t seem to stay out of the news here on road.cc.
Yesterday, we reported how a rider had narrowly avoided serious injury after drawing pins were strewn on an emergency cycle lane in Shoreham-by-Sea, and now it has emerged that the deputy leader of Brighton & Hove City Council was left-hooked by the driver of a white van as she rode on a similarly segregated bike lane on Old Shoreham Road in nearby Hove. Green Party politician Hannah Clare said she fell on her side as a result of the incident which happened at around 10.30 yesterday morning by a Shell petrol station (pictured above), reports The Argus (link is external). She said: “I am still alive after a white van driver decided that a cycle lane was actually a white van man lane and I am a silly cyclist who didn’t realise that. “The car turned into the lane going into the petrol station and hit me – I fell on my side, but did not fall to the floor. “They did not shout to see if I was OK,” she added. “However, another driver did when I reached the traffic lights.” Councillor Clare wasn’t the only local politician to have encountered an aggressive motorist while out on a bike ride this week. On Tuesday, we reported how Labour councillor Jo Rigby, who has consistently called on Tory-controlled Wandsworth Council, said she was “done with cycling” after she was driven at by a motorist near Wandsworth Common railway station and had a drink thrown at her. https://road.cc/content/news/council...van-man-280247 |
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