Matthew's Journal

The time his bike was destroyed was a case of someone driving through red lights, not road rage. He got insurance money to replace the bike, but there was no prosecution. So it's not just road rage. And when my sister was attacked by another (female) driver in a road rage incident (and had hair pulled out) after they'd both stopped at a petrol station it was prosecuted, so it's not the case that road rage assaults can't be prosecuted.

I still find it uncomfortable that you can say:

There are just a bunch of assholes out there who choose to use whatever vehicle they are using at the time as a weapon and to intimidate others, regardless of the size of the other vehicle - cars who intimidate and are inconsiderate to cyclists are just as likely to do the same to other cars, or even lorries may times their size. Similarly there are cyclists of the same mentality.

and apparently not see the inherent complete disparity in scale, both in intimidation *caused* and in intimidation *received*.