page_title: Bike rage
section_title: Cyclists attacking drivers
hierarchical_section_title: Bike rage / Examples / Cyclists attacking drivers
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of bike rage incident by Kathryn Cramer, taken June 23rd, 2019 at the intersection of Richmond Street West &amp; Bathurst, Toronto,Ontario. Fist fight &amp; physical confrontation in which the police were called and arrived to take statements.
context_page_description: Bike rage refers to form of road rage in which acts of verbal or gestural anger or physical aggression between cyclists and other users of bike paths or roadways, including pedestrians, other cyclists, motorcyclists, or drivers. Bike rage can consist of shouting at other road users, making obscene gestures or threats, hitting or punching, or in rare cases, even more violent acts. The term can refer either to acts committed by cyclists or by drivers. Bike rage is related to other explosive outbursts of anger such as road rage.
context_section_description: In Toronto in 2007, "... after being cut off by a driver just after morning rush hour in Toronto, a cyclist caught up to the car, reached inside the window, and stabbed the driver in the face and neck with a screwdriver."
  A 2004 Chicago Sun-Times article states that a Pennsylvania bicyclist shot a truck driver in the arm after an altercation. The truck driver, William Nicoletti, 51, drove past the cyclist, who made an obscene gesture. Mr. Nicoletti stated that when he turned his truck around and drove toward the cyclist, man on the bike drew a pistol and shot Mr. Nicoletti. The man on the bicycle, Robert Urick, 41, was "charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault and weapons offenses".
  A 2008 Newsweek article entitled "Pedal vs. Metal: A surge in bike ridership spurs a new kind of road rage" described an altercation which began after a driver named Patrick Schrepping told cyclist Adam Leckie to wear a helmet. Following this conversation, Leckie "allegedly responded by keying Schrepping's car", and then Schrepping struck Leckie with a metal object. Both men were arrested and charged with assault.
  Michael J. Bryant (born April 13, 1966), a Canadian lawyer and former politician in Ontario, Canada, was involved in an incident with a cyclist. After an altercation with a cyclist on August 31, 2009, in which Bryant's car struck a bike courier, Bryant was charged with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous driving causing death. On May 25, 2010, all charges against Bryant were withdrawn, with prosecutors describing the cyclist as the aggressor in the incident.
caption: Bike rage incident in Toronto, Ontario in which both the cyclist & motorist attacked each other, June 23, 2019.
exif: {"Image Make": "Apple", "Image Model": "iPhone X", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Photos 4.0", "Image DateTime": "2019:06:23 13:58:11", "Image TileWidth": "512", "Image TileLength": "512", "Image ExifOffset": "198", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/592", "EXIF FNumber": "9/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "20", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2019:06:23 13:58:11", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2019:06:23 13:58:11", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "110673/12016", "EXIF ApertureValue": "54823/32325", "EXIF BrightnessValue": "18337/2168", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "4", "EXIF SubjectArea": "[2042, 1512, 2220, 1328]", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "731", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "731", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2124", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2859", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "504/173", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "82", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF LensSpecification": "[4, 6, 9/5, 12/5]", "EXIF LensMake": "Apple", "EXIF LensModel": "iPhone X back dual camera 4mm f/1.8"}