A Bristol cyclist who sent a video of a driver on a mobile phone to the police, only for the police to prosecute the cyclist for stopping the traffic for a few seconds, has finally been told the case will be dropped.
Tom Bosanquet had a helmet camera filming as he cycled up Stokes Croft in Bristol and paused for a few seconds to tell a driver waiting at the junction with City Road to get off his phone. A van driver behind had to stop for a few seconds and sounded his horn, before driving past him and through a red light.
Mr Bosanquet sent the footage to Avon and Somerset police, as it showed two drivers breaking the law - but Avon and Somerset police prosecuted him too for the crime of ‘inconsiderate cycling’ for delaying the van driver for a few seconds. The case prompted outrage among cyclists and road safety campaigners nationally, and the 43-year-old from Bedminster was inundated with support and his defence was funded by Cycling UK’s Cyclists’ Defence Fund.
