Highway rage doesn’t pay and Graham Robinson, 69, is discovering that out the exhausting manner. He’s sitting in jail after knocking a motorbike rider off of his bike after a harmful chase. Footage from his personal dashcam ended up being a serious a part of his conviction.

Robinson evidently shouted “I’m going to knock you off your bike” towards the rider, Liam Visitor, simply earlier than the pursuit started on August fifth, 2022. What transpired subsequent was all captured on video as the 2 piloted their automobiles by a sequence of parking tons. Robinson clearly swerves in entrance of one other transferring automotive in order to maintain up with Visitor at one level.

When the chase strikes from pavement to a dust street, Robinson catches and hits Visitor from behind. He stated that Visitor struck his wing mirror and that brought about him to chase after the motorcyclist. Whereas the crash appears fairly tough, Visitor escaped with solely cuts and grazes. He did later complain of ache and flashbacks although.

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In keeping with the Telegraph, Robinson initially lied to police and stated that not solely was his dashcam damaged however that it wasn’t even within the automotive on the time of the accident. That very same footage ended up displaying the complete crime together with how Robinson sped by parking tons and down roads at speeds of as much as 50 mph (80 km/h). Subsequently, he plead responsible to harmful driving and obstructing the police.

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Robinson acted “in a grossly disproportionate manner” in accordance with Choose Timothy Petts. “For anybody to make use of their automotive as a weapon as you have been doing to settle a grudge with a extra susceptible street consumer is extremely harmful and the sentence has to mirror that,” the choose stated.

Robinson is now serving an eight-month sentence. As well as, he’s banned from driving for 3 years and 4 months and is topic to an prolonged retest ought to he search to drive once more after that.

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