A truck driver filmed a dramatic incident with his dashboard camera on Wednesday afternoon at Mossevegen in Nordstrand, Oslo. The video shows a cyclist being attacked by a motorist coming out of a gray van. It was Avisa Oslo that first mentioned the case. news has been in contact with the truck driver, Knut Berge, who says that he honked to get them to stop, but chose to stay away from the situation. news has also been in contact with the driver, who wishes to remain anonymous. – I am sorry that this happened. I drove after him to arrange the insurance after he had destroyed my mirror, he says. – The situation escalated The car driver told that he works at Ulvøya and was legally parked there. He says the cyclist drove past at high speed and hit his arm and the mirror of the car. He has sent news a picture showing the destroyed mirror, which he says the cyclist rode on. The car driver has sent news a picture of the destroyed wing mirror, which he says was hit by the cyclist. Photo: Private He further said that he tried to stop the cyclist by signaling, and subsequently kicked the bicycle. – The situation escalated, but I just wanted his ID for the insurance. He is clearly resigned to the situation. – In the end I just had to let him ride on. I have many witnesses, says the driver. He says that he understands that the cyclist could have been seriously injured in the situation. Train driver Berge confirms to news that the driver’s left mirror was destroyed. news has not been in contact with the cyclist. The motorist and the cyclist stand in the middle of the road. Photo: news – I film to have evidence of what happens in traffic, says the truck driver to news. Although the video shows a cyclist being attacked in the middle of traffic, the lorry driver is most concerned with cyclists’ behaviour. Police attorney Anders Briskodden tells news that they have registered an incident on Mossevegen on Wednesday, but that no police patrol was sent. The police have chosen not to report the driver for violence based on their own assessments, but encourage both parties to contact the police if they want to report the case. Violence has no place – I don’t know the background here, but just by registering that there is an attack here, it has no place. Christoffer Steen in Trygg Trafikk says so. Christoffer Steen, press manager at Trygg Trafikk. Photo: Jonas Been Henriksen / news – What could the driver have done differently here? – You can’t just attack people. Then you have another option. You cannot physically stop someone. If you can’t stop someone, you have to take it up with your insurance company. Steen says that interaction challenges often arise between cyclists and motorists, especially where the arrangements are not good enough. He says that although conflicts and provocations may arise, physical attacks are rare. He encourages motorists and cyclists to look out for each other. Eline Oftedal, general secretary of the Cyclist Association. Photo: Jakob Eriksen Berhard Eline Oftedal in the Cyclist Association believes that the reaction of the motorist was completely out of proportion. She believes that he puts both the cyclist, himself and other road users at risk. She believes the challenge is a lack of provision in several places on the vegan route, where the cycle lane ends abruptly and the cyclists have to exit onto the road. – In a country with many cyclists and a different cycling culture, everyone has a clear place. Where there is no clear place, conflicts arise. Published 14.11.2024, at 11.09 Updated 14.11.2024, at 14.57
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