Police seek to identify bicyclist in an assault
Police are seeking to identify a bicyclist described as attacking a pedestrian – a bike-rage incident that took place after they crossed paths by Cambridge Common.
The incident took place at around 5:45 p.m. Nov. 15 at Concord Avenue and Waterhouse Street, when a Cambridge resident using a crosswalk was just missed by a bicyclist coming from the common, police said, citing information provided by the pedestrian.
When she called after him to watch where he was going, he circled back and hit her arms and legs before heading down Concord Avenue toward Garden Street, police said. “The bicyclist reportedly drove his bike at and into the pedestrian/victim,” said Jeremy Warnick, director of communications and media relations for Cambridge police, in a Wednesday email.
The rider was described as a white man about 50 years old wearing a navy fleece. He wore no helmet and his bike had no lights, according to the pedestrian and video that police found from the area.
An investigation so far has not found the bicyclist. Anyone with information about the Nov. 15 incident is asked to call (617) 349-3300 or make contact anonymously.
Little new about such incidents. I recently mentioned such incidents prior to a ramble response from a character in need of a “meeting” about the Dutch. Senior citizens on foot frequently suffer such encounters.
Hope they find the guy.
Isn’t “bike rage” just “road rage”? Why do we need a new term? Bikes use the road after all.
call it cycle-drama if it gets you through the night…but it’s a bit off topic.
tip of the hat to the Cambridge officer who stopped a cyclist for running a light!!! we’ll get there…;-) and election year is right around the corner…think it!!!!
No helmet? It was certainly one of the many “runners” that ply their craft in the area then.
No responsible, helmet-wearing bicyclist would ever have a near-miss with a pedestrian which results in a confrontation.
Simply doesn’t happen….
https://mobile.twitter.com/cambridgecrash
And the city still refuses to install CCTV cameras.
In this case, the police might have gotten better video of this person, and perhaps where the person went.
When is this city going to come out of the dark ages? What is going to take, a kidnapping, a murder?
What about it Mr. McGovern.
hahah…. Disturbed43 won’t be happy until we are like Communist CHY-NA with cameras inside every home.
An infinite stream of grainy video for him to “concern” himself with.
Classic Boston road rage
@ Sam
When you walk or bike on a street, you lose all pretense of “having privacy.”
I don’t want cameras inside my home. Stay away from my bedroom and my pocketbook. I know that’s not the way this city’s Councilors feel, because most of them lean very left.
However, CCTV on the streets. What possible rational objection could one have? If it could help solve a murder, kidnapping or car hi-jacking, I think it’s worth it. And by the way, in politics I’m a centrist.
Good lord, wait til this hits NEXTDOOR
I hope they find him. Good luck PD! Bikes need to follow rules!