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Certainly not, I fully accepted the reasoned position is slap the scumbag. And yes concealing the crime does make this driver impossible to defend, which is why I never have. I was offering up an alternative non-scumbag perspective to bad driving. As we have all had 'oh shit' moments, but in...

No, but I was looking for mitigating circumstances where the driver might not be a scumbag, deserving of a slap, something made all the more difficult by them not coming forward. As Paul Reids Sock said, somewhat better than myself, 'The driver may have realised late that they needed to turn...

Again I responding to the fact the assailant was deserving of a bit of police brutality, by pointing out the potential of a different set of circumstances. Remember I am a cyclist as well as a driver of 30 years, maximum NCB, the life of mine and my friends weren't worth 5 seconds TWICE last...

That's a fair point, I've dug myself into a liberal hole here. I want to scumbag to get a kicking, but only if they are proven to be a scumbag. The driver was speeding, I can't judge just how fast he was going as everything else was stationary, but they were speeding. The driver was careless...

I'm most definitely not showing sympathy for the driver. I'm just arguing the black and white that seems to be driver = scumbag deserving of ABH from the police force.

Fair enough, but the point I was, badly, making is we've all at some point had an 'oh shit' moment. Fortunately of all of us that's ended with 'blimey that was lucky'. This time nobody was lucky, that doesn't instantly make the driver a scumbag. Had they 'run' because they were already banned...

Can you honestly say you haven't driven in an equally reckless fashion? You've never flown round a corner, taken an important call, pushed into a gap that wasn't there etc etc. Fortunately the 'hit' aspect is rare. The 'run' aspect is even rarer. This whole accident is horrific, and the driver...

Absolutely, it's clear I'm not defending them and what they did.

Chances are the person who did this isn't a 'scumbag'. They are just a normal person, let's say a mother, with a couple of young children. She could be your neighbour, a colleague, even a distant friend. Their actions, no different to most other peoples, has put them in a life changing...