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Sajid Javid clashed with Jeremy Vine today over a controversial video showing a car passing ‘too close’ to a five-year-old cyclist.
The footage shows a boy cycling along a street in Kingston, south-west London. A car approaches from the other direction and passes without incident, but the parent filming his son from behind criticises the driver for not stopping or slowing.
Vine, a well-known cycling advocate, took to Twitter to slam the motorist for not going ‘dead slow’ and said anyone who disagreed should ‘cut up their driving licence’.
After this sparked a social media row, the journalist tweeted again on Tuesday: ‘Take a look at this video of a five-year-old cycling to school. He’s being recorded by his dad behind. Look at how close this car approaches the child. Who is in the wrong? Is it the five-year old, or is it the driver of the Ford?’
‘The 5-year old’s father,’ Mr Javid, the MP for Bromsgrove and a former Home Secretary, responded today.
A clearly frustrated Vine then tweeted: ‘I mustn’t respond. I mustn’t respond. I mustn’t respond.’
The footage shows a boy cycling along a street in Kingston, south-west London. A car approaches from the other direction and passes without incident, but the parent filming his son from behind criticises the driver for not stopping or slowing
Vine, a well-known cycling advocate, took to Twitter to slam the motorist, but Javid responded claiming the boy’s father was at fault
Vine tweeted ‘I mustn’t respond’ in frustration amid Javid’s tweet
Sajid Javid (pictured) clashed with Jeremy Vine over a controversial video showing a car passing ‘too close’ to a five-year-old cyclist
Jeremy Vine leaves the BBC Radio 2 studios on his bike
The father, a Twitter user with the profile name ‘AZB’ gave his own comment on the incident last week.
‘How can we expect parents to let their kids ride to school if this is how their neighbours drive towards them?’ he wrote November 4.
‘He’s five by the way and this is 100m from his home. This is what happens when you don’t provide safe cycling infrastructure around schools or on the way to schools.
‘Today it was my child but it could easily have been yours or anyone else.’
This prompted a flood of responses, with some saying they ‘couldn’t see a problem’ with what happened and others suggesting a five-year-old shouldn’t be on the road.
Keen cyclist Vine took to social media last month to berate another motorist whom he accused of driving dangerously in Kensington.
Posting footage on Twitter of the tense interaction with a supercar driver in the heart of London, Vine branded the motorist the ‘Ronnie Pickering of Kensington’ after the driver declared him ‘a d**k’.
The video showed the television presenter on his bike with a £200,000 Bentley beeping its horn behind him.
After the luxury supercar undertakes Vine, the motor then approaches two other cyclists who are in the road.
When the traffic lights turn red, Vine trundles to his driver-side window to confront him about his manoeuvres.
The Eggheads and Radio 2 host exclaims: ‘Oooooh, you’re quite a dangerous driver, mate.’
But the motorist does not back down and instead tells him: ‘You’re in the wrong lane, why aren’t you in that lane?’
The driver seemed nonplussed by meeting Vine and told him ‘My name’s Paul and you’re a d**k’
He then points to the curbside left hand side of the road, to which Vine edits dramatic low piano notes over the footage and adds text bemoaning the lack of a cycle lane.
Vine is then heard quizzing him: ‘Why do you think you’ve got a right to go ahead of me just because you’re in a car?’
The motorist tells him ‘Because you deliberately went in front of me and in the wrong lane. Get in the bloody cycle lane. I drive how I want. You don’t own the road, believe it or not.’
Vine was at the centre of another controversy earlier this month when he shared a photo of himself with Great Thunberg, saying he was ‘honoured’ to meet her.
Vine sparked controversy earlier this month when he gushed over meeting climate activist Greta Thunberg (pictured)
The Radio 2 lunchtime presenter told his 785,000 followers on Twitter that he was shocked at how angry the response to the photo – which was taken following an interview with Thunberg, 19, on his radio.
Vine told his followers: ‘Why has this tweet made some people so angry? And some of them even sending disgraceful messages to Greta Thunberg.’
The question sparked dozens of messages, many in support of the Swedish activist, while others took umbrage with the fact that Vine, 57, had used the word ‘honoured’ when describing the meeting with the teenager.
One user, @rhderryman, wrote: ‘Because she talks at us like we have never heard of climate change. We know and most people are doing something. And people like the King would wipe the floor with her patronising rants.’
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