An Irish cyclist has taken to social media to express his annoyance at the outcome of an incident he was involved in with a van driver last year.
While the cyclist recorded the incident and took the footage to the Garda and says the driver now faces being sanctioned, the cyclist was also warned about his behaviour.
And when the cyclist refused to accept an adult caution, for an alleged breach of public order, he was told he would be summonsed to court to answer to the charge before a judge.
The dispute - which is the first such incident we've seen as Gaeilge between a cyclist and driver - took place last March. The cyclist - Twitter user @CyclingForMind - said he was riding along when the driver overtook him.
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He was unhappy at the manner of the overtaking and said he remonstrated with the driver as he overtook. Minutes later he happened across the driver who was pulled in by the roadside. The cyclist said he looked at the driver and shook his head, before continuing on his way.
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Minutes later the van driver then caught up with the cyclist and the exchange captured in the video above took place.
The cyclist has said the van driver was given, and accepted, a caution from gardaí into relation to public order. That means it was not treated as a criminal offence and so the driver was not brought into the criminal justice system and does not have any conviction for that.
According to the cyclist, the driver may face action related to his driving. However, no finding has been reached against the driver to date.
The gardaí were also clearly unhappy about the cyclist's alleged conduct - perhaps as the row between both cyclist and driver became heated and featured no shortage of bad language.
While the gardaí wanted the cyclist to accept a caution for alleged public disorder - and so handle the matter outside the justice system - he felt this was unjustified and so refused to accept it. That means he must now appear before a court at a later date. However, like the driver, no finding of wrongdoing has been reached against the cyclist.
The case confirms some of the feedback stickybottle has been receiving from cyclists; that gardaí will use cyclists' video evidence to take action against the cyclist in a case and will not limit their review of footage to the drivers in these cases.
