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Driver eats bitumen after cycle fight

Another day, another tense showdown between a motorist and a cyclist emerges online.

This time the pair clashed in Reading in the UK and the driver has most certainly come off second best by finishing the dispute face down in a gutter courtesy of a ill-considered kick to the rider’s back wheel.

A friendly discussion about UK road rules. Photo: YouTube
A friendly discussion about UK road rules. Photo: YouTube

The face off begins when the unknown cyclist gets annoyed at what he sees as a dangerously close pass by the motorist. As any helmet-cam wearing rider would do in this day and age, he pursues the driver to express his views on the situation.

Words are exchanged.

Talks break down. Photo: YouTube
Talks break down. Photo: YouTube

Words like: “Are you a f---ing tank?” and “Do you need to drive in the road?” and “Get a car”.

The pair go on to discuss the pros and cons of helmets, seat belts and the nuances of local road rules. The driver runs out of patience and decides to seize the camera in evidence, we presume, once the cyclist signals his plans to call the police.

Driver breaks down. Photo: YouTube
Driver breaks down. Photo: YouTube

A short chase, a swift kick and a painful looking fall later, we have all the makings of yet another viral car versus bike video.

Uploaded last Thursday, more than 1.5 million people have now watched the footage.

Now, we're not saying Australians are perfect. We've had our share of tension between two wheeled and four-wheeled road users too, but tempers in Britain seem to fray a lot on this issue. Maybe it's something to do with the presence of helmet cams though?

Or perhaps it's just that Aussies take a "less talk, more action approach" as this scary video of a car clipping a cyclist shows. The angry man in the previous video, it turns out, was an Aussie ex-pat as well.

Neither locality nor nationality have anything to do with it though. Where ever humans operate vehicles, disputes are bound to happen, as are accidents. Both cyclists and motorists are more than capable of being at fault as well.

And there will always be someone prepared to take matters into their own hands.

Morning news break – August 3