A video posted on YouTube reveals an altercation between a cyclist and the driver of a truck. The first was visibly hit by the second, before receiving several punches.
“I served as game in a hunt for the cyclist”. The Parisian unveils this Wednesday, May 4, the video of a cyclist deliberately hit and then hit by the driver of a heavy goods vehicle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQRx3Iaj7-A
In the short 43-second video, posted by the “MONVÉLOESTUNEVIE” channel, the cyclist can be seen riding along a quiet country road, before being overtaken and then hit by a heavy truck at the rear wheel. . According to The Parisianthe scene is located on a small road linking the towns of Semussac to Royan (Charente-Maritime).
traumatized
The man falls, then gets up quickly and gets on his bike. At the same time, two passengers on board the truck got out of the vehicle and attacked the cyclist. They are visibly very upset: “What do you have to give me a sign at all? What are you coming to bust my balls? I’m going to give you a wank!” Says one of the men to the victim. The two passengers are then seen hitting the walker until the video stops. “I served as game in a cyclist hunt,” the man told Le Parisien.
Contacted by the newspaper, the cyclist explains that he had already met the men driving the heavyweight a few moments before the video. “As the truck was coming at me at very high speed and we didn’t have room to pass, I waved to him, which was of no use, I had to roll in the grass “. It was when overtaking that the driver of the vehicle would have lowered his window and yelled “something that I did not understand, but which was not friendly”, recalls the cyclist.
30 days of ITT
It is taken from a “bad feeling” that the man, who notices that the truck goes up to his height, decides to activate his camera. Hit twice by the truck, “once by the rear wheel, the other by the rear mudguard”, he confides that he “could have had so much worse”: “I could have had my hand cut off…” he repeated to the daily newspaper.
After escaping his attackers, the cyclist goes to the police, who take him in charge. He files a complaint, and has the images of his camera recorded. At the hospital, doctors find that the man has a broken nose, bruises all over his face and a broken finger which continues to bother him. He gets six days of ITT, soon transformed into 30 days. He is traumatized: “I lost weight, because I had lost my appetite. I also have a lot of trouble falling asleep and evacuating these images from my head”, he describes. “I am currently undergoing psychological follow-up to help me resume a normal life.”
His attackers were released pending their trial, which should be held in June.
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