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| Woman in Twitter 'knocked cyclist off bike' case summonsed to court | Woman in Twitter 'knocked cyclist off bike' case summonsed to court |
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| A 21-year-old woman who tweeted she had knocked a cyclist off his bike after an alleged crash in Norfolk has been summonsed to appear in court. | A 21-year-old woman who tweeted she had knocked a cyclist off his bike after an alleged crash in Norfolk has been summonsed to appear in court. |
| Emma Way is to answer charges of driving without due care and attention and failing to stop after an accident. | Emma Way is to answer charges of driving without due care and attention and failing to stop after an accident. |
| She also has to answer a charge of failing to report the accident in Rockland All Saints on 19 May. | She also has to answer a charge of failing to report the accident in Rockland All Saints on 19 May. |
| Ms Way, a trainee accountant of Akrotiri Square, Watton is due before Norwich Magistrates' Court in August. | Ms Way, a trainee accountant of Akrotiri Square, Watton is due before Norwich Magistrates' Court in August. |
| The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Norfolk Police ordered the summons after an investigation. | |
| 'Spur-of-the-moment' | |
| In an interview with Radio Norfolk shortly after the collision, Ms Way disputed the version of events given by the cyclist, Toby Hockley. | |
| Mr Hockley, a member of Iceni Velo cycling club, said he was nearing the end of the Boudicca Sportive 100-mile ride when a car came towards him at speed on the wrong side of a narrow country lane. | |
| The car's wing mirror clipped him and he was launched from the bike into a hedge, he said. | |
| Mr Hockley said he was thrown into a hedge and was "lucky to be alive". | |
| Miss Way's post on Twitter read: "Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier. I have right of way - he doesn't even pay road tax!" | |
| The comment included the hashtag #Bloodycyclists. | |
| It was retweeted several hundred times and led to what a tearful Miss Way described as the public "judging me on one man's side of the story". | |
| Miss Way said she regretted her "stupid, immature, spur-of-the-moment" tweet and said she could only blame herself for the reaction it caused. |