This Volvo Driver Rammed A Cyclist For No Good Reason, And Got Away With It
This shocking crash happened November last year in Nottingham, and was severe enough to cause internal haemorrhaging and back injuries for the victim. It took him four months to recover from the injuries, but the real sting in the tale came when Nottingham Police were unable to prosecute the driver, as the Volvo XC60 was revealed to be a hire vehicle.
Instead, a man eligible to drive the car at the time - quite possibly the perpetrator - got away with just a £150 fine and six penalty points for “failing to provide driver details.” A woman was also eligible to drive at the time, but the Crown Prosecution Service deemed that there wasn’t enough evidence to determine who was behind the wheel.
Source: BBC
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Couldn’t determine the ID of the driver? Don’t hire cars have tracking sheets of who drives when?
EDIT: What it sounds like is they couldn’t pin it down on the fact that it WAS the person hiring the car who drove at the time. I would have thought it be in the contract that any crime committed using the car or damage caused would be the responsibility of the person hiring at the time.
next volvo ad: ram a cyclist and get away with it because volvo
Volvo: Guaranteed to pass the Moose test. Results with cyclists may vary.
As in “we give our hire cars to people without asking their personal information, so we can’t help you find a guy we gave this car too on a specific date, that we also didn’t write down”
Range Rover and Volvo have more in common than I thought…
I would pay the rental service to get the name. I would find him and … Liam will tell me the rest.
Im a cyclist too, but i have never seen something like this. I have bin hit one time by a car, but that was kinda my own fault
Must have had too much confidence in the autonomous braking system..
People like that don’t deserve a car