Road rage video: Motorist punches a cyclist... 'just because he couldn't overtake'

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Video footage shows the moment Simon Page was knocked to the ground by the driver outside a restaurant in Bexley Village in May.

He was part of a group of seven road cyclists riding from Dover to London. The video was taken by another cyclist and shows a silver Peugeot pulling over and a man getting out and walking over to Mr Page before punching him in the head.

The 49-year-old lawyer said: "We were coming through a south-east London suburb when a car tried to overtake whilst we were going past a traffic island which significantly narrowed the road. We remonstrated with the driver, shouting.

"The car stopped and the driver and passenger got out and started using very threatening language and their body language was highly aggressive.

"They saw me reading the number plate and said 'we see you have our number, now we're effing gonna run you over'.

"When they drove off they clipped my right hand with a wing mirror. They stopped again, but this time the driver came over and punched me to the ground." Mr Page, from Twickenham, said he was angry that police failed to act despite being presented with the video.

He said: "You'd think that it would be easy to locate and prosecute. It turns out that the registered keeper of the car was not using the
car that day and is not on the video.

"The upshot is that someone else was the driver and assaulter that day."

The video has now been uploaded on YouTube. The attack has horrified other cyclists. Michael Jones posted on the road.cc website: "Not uncommon to get abuse when out riding. Something needs to be done to change this appalling attitude of drivers towards cyclists and pedestrians."

A Met Police spokesman said: "We can confirm an allegation of assault in Bexley High Street was made which is being investigated by Bexley CID.