A 60-year-old truck driver from the Frisian Donkerbroek has been sentenced to an 80-hour community service for the mistreatment of a cyclist in Assen. The cyclist was pulled off his bike by the driver and ran several bone fractures due to the fall.
The suspect entered a pedestrian area with his car full of foods on July 1. He drove a walk at a walk, the man told the judge. He saw a man and a woman on the bike on the left next to him. Suddenly the man would have moved to the right on his bike in front of the truck. “What kind of action is that again, I thought,” he told court.
The cyclist got off and the driver climbed out of his car. The cyclist came to the driver scolding. He was angry because he had driven off the road through the truck. The suspect gave the man a blow with the flat hand against his head. Nothing more, the man said. But the camera images showed something else. It can be seen that the cyclist was pulled during the bike riding.
The victim walked up a broken arm and kneecap because of the fall and he had a slice above his eye. The driver cannot remember that he had knocked over the cyclist. “I don’t have that on my retina,” the man said. If the cyclist had just driven on, there would have been nothing wrong. “Another option is that you keep your hands home,” the judge said.
According to her, images clearly show what happened. The cyclist did not behave neatly by swearing. But it was the suspect who became physically aggressive ‘by pulling the other very hard off the bike’. According to the judge, there was a lack of sense of reality with the suspect. In addition, she saw little regret: “you have to pull that out”.
She took into account that the man did not yet have a criminal record. The punishment is the same as the requirement. The victim is a grief amount of 3,000 euros assigned.