Bus driver jailed for 17 months.

[GeorgeStorm]

Cannot believe that footage, I would agree with those saying 17 months is nowhere near enough, while I personally don't think the cyclist is doing anything particularly wrong.
Regardless, you don't try to run the guy over! Disgusting behaviour.

[Larkspeed]

I'm going to side with the minority on this one I don't think that sentence is anywhere near long enough.

The cyclist may have been a dick and the bus driver may have been angry, you want to vent your anger wait for a red light and get out and punch him in the face if it will make you feel better. (won't solve anything though)

This guy deliberately took a bus and ran someone down with it, and given the force he hit him with he had every intention of doing serious injury, the charge should have been attempted murder not dangerous driving or at the very least Aggravated assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

[Disturbedguy]

Sentence should be longer and its disgusting that people are siding with the driver, a few of the people who are siding with the driver, I would never expect it from.

Regardless of what the person on the bike was supposed to have done, being hit by the idiot driving the bus isn't right. I would hate to have seen what the driver did to any chav that got on the bus and gave him abuse, or is he only brave when he can use his vehicle as a weapon?


Hoonigan / Matty -
How on earth is that footage funny?
How on earth is it funny that a bus driver uses his bus as a weapon?
How is it funny that the guy had his leg broken?
How is it funny that the guy on the bike was thrown so far?

It's disgusting that you find it funny. I've had cyclist annoy me, cut me up etc but I have never, ever thought of using my car as a weapon.

If the bus driver can't control his anger / deal with situations without getting violent, he shouldn't be driving buses and I would question whether you should be driving a car if you find that kind of thing funny.

[HSK]

Its totally crazy, what a nut job. You dont try and run over someone just because you dislike them or what they may be doing.

I cant belive some of you think its all good! lol. Its not good, maybe if the cyclist killed your mum or something, then fair play, I'd expect some crazy ness.

[Saracen]

I don't, personally, give a flying fig what the cyclist was doing or what the provocation was, you do not do that kind of thing. Not ever. Period.

If the cyclist was behaving like an idiot, and some do, then fine, the law can deal with him like it does with other motoring incidents .... if it ever catches up with him. But in my opinion, the bus driver is lucky, because that could so easily have killed the cyclist, and if it had, he wouldn't be looking at 17 months for dangerous driving and, by the way, GBH, but instead he'd be looking at a potential life sentence for murder.

Rave said it before me, and as an ex-bus driver, he ought to know, and he was bang on with

.... but whatever provocation the cyclist caused, you don't deliberately cause an accident, EVER.

And any car driver that did that would be facing the same potential charges, too.

[Macman]

I, myself drive and have came across unruly pedest, bikers, cyclist and cars/lorries.

Might give them the one or two finger salute or swear like a trooper in the car. Yes I might go all Grand Theft Auto in the mind but never in a million years would I delibrately mow someone down or ram someone simply because they have done something to provoke me.

However... there's a line that one can cross then yes, I will mow that mofo down, but I doubt that would ever happen in my lifetime. (I doubt anyone would pull a gun on me or threaten me with some sort of weapon)

Driver deserved what he got...

[format]

As a cyclist I find it very worrying that firstly the bus driver got such a lenient sentence and secondly that people are actually condoning his actions. The cyclist had done nothing wrong.

[GoNz0]

As a cyclist I find it very worrying that firstly the bus driver got such a lenient sentence and secondly that people are actually condoning his actions. The cyclist had done nothing wrong.

maybe read the full story where he parked his bike on the front of the bus to prevent the driver moving off and doing his job so he could have a right go at him for being close...

yes the driver was wrong but it just shows some people can only be pushed so far before they lose the plot and do something stupid.

pot kettle splat.

[IronWarrior]

Watched the video, the biker provoked the bus driver, he deserved it, hope he learned his lesson, don't play with traffic.

[Million]

Be that as it may, it doesn't warrant assault with a deadly weapon, and putting the other road users behind at risk of harm. If I were to pee someone off, perhaps I would earn a slap, but not a body blow with a three tonne weapon.

It's disgusting that anyone could condone this. It seems people somehow feel that because the guy's on a bike it's fair game. Imagine if he'd gone under the wheels of the bus or a passing car? Could've easily gone that way.

[TheAnimus]

Watched the video, the biker provoked the bus driver, he deserved it, hope he learned his lesson, don't play with traffic.

erm yes, he clearly deserved it.

I mean how dare he cycle on the roads.

The bus could have easily over taken him going past the cyclist but, no the cyclist had somehow done something deserving of a broken leg!

[Saracen]

Watched the video, the biker provoked the bus driver, he deserved it, hope he learned his lesson, don't play with traffic.

You may have watched the video, but clearly, that video covers the last bit of a situation that goes back prior to the start of the video. The biker's actions may have been daft, but we don't know what provoked the cyclist .... like perhaps being nearly knocked off by the bus earlier.

But regardless of what led to it, nothing justifies the utter contempt of the health and even life of the cyclist by driving a bus like that. A punch on the nose if they got into it out of the bus might be understandable, though still wrong, but that disgraceful piece of potentially lethal driving is utterly unjustified. It's just luck the cyclist wasn't killed, not judgement.

[Hoonigan]

I would question whether you should be driving a car if you find that kind of thing funny.

I'm always smashing people off their bikes, it's hilarious.

/Sarcasm.

[GeorgeStorm]

Watched the video, the biker provoked the bus driver, he deserved it, hope he learned his lesson, don't play with traffic.

I hope I'm never near you when you drive.

[Rob_B]

you don't deliberately cause an accident, EVER.

/pedantmodeactivated

That is a 100% true and inescapable statement

[roachcoach]

Bus driver is out of line, but had that bike been a car, I'd say there's even money of a careless/dangerous driving/DWDC&A charge being pressed.

There is zero consideration on behalf of that biker, he's riding like a complete tool. Whilst on this occasion it was deliberate, that riding style will render him an organ doner sooner than later, by accident or design.

I bike, a lot. Rule #1 is I'm squishy and "but I was right" is a poor epitaph. Rule #2 is being considerate on the road limits the chances of other people having a 'moment' considerably. I'm talking about literally thousands and thousands of miles covered and showing respect for the fellow road users has meant those miles have been 100% uneventful and not even ONCE has a horn been sounded in my general direction, much less road rage incidents.

Perhaps it's a coincidence, but I doubt that. And besides, it's nice to be nice.