Shocking footage shows a cyclist being thrown off his bike by a passing car and then the driver failing to stop and the cyclist being left lying on the road.
Dashboard camera footage from the motorcycle was taken at 9.04am on Saturday along Burns Road on Sydney’s Upper North Shore.
The footage shows the car rapidly approaching the cyclist, who then falls off her bike as it passes her at full speed.
Without even being able to slow down, the vehicle quickly left the scene.
The motorcyclist, who did not wish to be named, said he was riding with a group of other motorcyclists when the incident occurred in a 60km/h zone where they were travelling below the speed limit.
“I saw something and then the cyclist fell to the ground,” he said.
‘I slowed down to help her and then I looked in my mirror and there was a car that immediately pulled over to the side to help her, which I saw.’
As the motorcyclist’s group also continued traveling, he caught up with the car and has the license plate on his dashcam footage.
A motorcyclist captured the shocking moment a car and a bicycle collided on a road in northern Sydney.
He said his first thought was that the cyclist had fallen into a pothole.
“When I watched the video it was clear that the car hit her, I suspect the mirror hit her handlebars or something, but to me it was clear that a collision had occurred,” he said.
The motorcyclist said he had reported the incident to two police stations but was told they would not act without a complaint from the victim.
He hopes the release of the images will lead the woman or someone who knows her to come forward.
The motorcyclist believes that the car is to blame, as vehicles are required by law to maintain a distance of one metre from bicycles at low speeds and 1.5 metres at speeds over 60 km/h.
“The police can take action if she goes to the police or she can file a claim against her insurance company,” the motorcyclist said.
The cyclist who took the dashcam footage said the cyclist was left lying on the ground, but a car behind them stopped to help her.
‘I know that a crime has been committed, you can see that, and it’s a crime that caused bodily harm and you can see how stopping to do it after an accident or a hit and run, I don’t know.
“I want this woman to have some kind of reparation.”
