Cyclist left with broken spine after being ‘rugby tackled’ by angry driver
A driver from Harrogate could face prison time after admitting to assault from causing actual bodily harm following an attack on a female cyclist in a road rage incident.
Martyn Lee 46 years old is the one who attacked 38-year-old Caroline Livesey after he had to take evasive action to avoid driving into her after she swerved when a dog ran into the road.
“The defendant had to drive into the middle of both carriageways to narrowly miss Mrs Livesey,” Shawn Morales, prosecuting, told York Crown Court. “The complainant said the defendant then drove past her shouting something about ‘undertaking’.
“Further down the road he had stopped and, as the complainant went past, he rugby tackled her from the bike and she hit the back of her head on the road surface. He told her, ‘To be honest, I thought you were a bloke’.”
Mrs Livesey, who had recently started working part time in order to pursue a “semi-pro” triathlon career, suffered a sacral fracture in the inner-pelvic area of her spine as well as cuts and bruises to her lower back and head.
My overall thoughts on this are quite mixed because of how crazy this was and it was such an overreaction but it caused the cyclist to have a broken spine. I think the driver was reckless and stupid to do such a thing as he blew the whole situation out of proportion and left the cyclist with a life changing injury. I do think the driver should be put in prison as what he did was awful and the situation could have been handled better.
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