Taxi drivers fined after incidents with cyclistsTwo taxi drivers have been fined in court after clashing with cyclists in Cambridge city centre.
Magistrates in Cambridge found Lee Cave, of Jeavons Lane, Great Cambourne, guilty of driving without due care and attention when he cut in front of a traffic warden who was cycling along Downing Street.
The court heard how Cave turned left from Downing Street into Corn Exchange Street and caused civil enforcement officer Anthony Clark-Patterson to break hard.
His body lurched forward over the handlebars of his bike and he had to put his hand out in front of him, hitting Cave’s black Mercedes, to prevent him from coming off the bike.
Giving evidence, Mr Clark-Patterson said Cave’s manoeuvre was “violent” and if he had not instinctively put his hand out to shield the impact, the collision could have been a lot worse.
Unrepresented in court, Cave denied he pulled in front of the cyclist and said he had been a taxi company owner and driver since 2005.
Magistrates said Cave should not have made the manoeuvre and fined him £180. He was ordered to pay £400 costs, a £15 victim surcharge and had four points put on his driving licence.
Panther taxi driver Syen Ahmod, of King’s Hedges Road, Cambridge, “bumped” a cyclist in Bridge Street causing the bike to “jump forward”, Delia Matthews, prosecuting, said.
The cyclist was stationary when the incident happened at about 8pm on June 22.
In mitigation, Carlo Coccaro said Ahmod, who has just got married in Bangladesh and interrupted his four-month stay there to return for the court case, had made a “misjudgement” and was not aware there was contact between him and the bike.
Ahmod pleaded guilty on Friday after initially pleading not guilty last November. Magistrates fined him £165, ordered he pay £180 costs and a victim surcharge of £15, and he had three penalty points added to his licence.
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