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Tom Davidson

'All he had to do was say sorry' - Cyclist wins court case and £4k after being hit by driver

A cyclist in a residential area with a tweet embossed on top.

A cyclist has won more than £4,000 in damages after taking legal action against a car driver who struck him from behind.

Harry Gray, a 28-year-old active travel campaigner, was rear-ended by a driver while cycling in Bolton in December 2022. He had no camera footage or CCTV evidence of the incident, but chose to pursue the driver, described as a man in his late sixties, who Gray felt “showed no remorse”.

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