A cyclist who was knocked off her bike by a London van driver has come down heavily on the Metropolitan police for failing to prosecute the man at the wheel for careless driving.
The incident happened when 33-year-old Nisha Singh, a King’s College London researcher, was riding from St Thomas’s hospital to the Maudsley hospital in Denmark Hill. A white van, which had up until then been driving behind her, pulled into the side of her. She was left with bleeding, bruising and a black eye.
Nisha Singh, of Brixton, said she could have been run over by a black cab but was lucky it had been following at a distance.
The London Evening Standard has published a helmet camera clip of the incident which took place on Lambeth Bridge roundabout on July 22 last year.
The van driver got away with a slap on the wrist. He was told to attend a safer driving course.
Nisha Singh, as quoted in the media report, said: “The safe driving course is fine but I think there should be more punishment for people who drive badly, not just the ones who cause gratuitous harm. The statement I got back from the police said unless you have life-threatening injuries or you are dead, we don’t prosecute. That is completely ludicrous.”
