A group of cyclists on a club ride on Saturday got a surprise when a motorist drove across a grass verge and took to a cycle path to pass them.
Members of Ely & District Cycling Club taking part in its easy-paced ride were cycling in single file when the driver made the unusual – and illegal – manoeuvre.
As he passed them, he made a hand gesture and shouted: “If you are cycling on the road then I'll drive on the path."
As the video shows, there were no vehicles coming in the other direction, so the driver could have safely overtaken the riders on the road.
The footage was posted to the club’s Facebook page by Derek Ricketts, who said: “Think the driver may be getting his collar felt when I pass it on to the police.”
Under section 329 (1) of the Highways Act 1980, a “cycle track” is “a way constituting or comprised in a highway, being a way over which the public have the following, but no other, rights of way, that is to say, a right of way on pedal cycles with or without a right of way on foot.”
