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Dashcam footage shows the moment an angry cyclist and a driver had a city centre stand-off over parking in a cycle lane.

Keith Crewe, who had travelled to Liverpool from Devon for a family funeral, says his BMW was scratched and had a “chunk” taken out of it after refusing to move for a cyclist on a quiet city centre street.

The electrician - a keen cyclist himself - says he was given permission to briefly park his car across the bike lane in order to load his bags after staying at the Richmond Hotel in Liverpool city centre last Sunday.

However, footage taken from his dashcam shows how a cyclist had other ideas, repeatedly insisting he moves the car. When Mr Crewe refuses, the cyclist can be heard scratching the car with the pedal of his bike as he walks off carrying it. Pictures shown to the ECHO show minor damage to the front and side of Mr Crewe’s BMW.

During the altercation, which lasted several minutes, passers-by can be seen getting involved and telling the cyclist to move around the car.

Keith, 63, said: “There’s a chunk out of the driver side bumper, and there’s a load of scratches. The car is only three years old and I think it’s going to be quite expensive because it’s going to need to be resprayed.

“We’d had a lovely time in Liverpool, it’s a fantastic city and we’d caught up with some family, but this did put a downer on it.

“As a cyclist myself I appreciate the difficulties of cycling in a busy city and the use of cycle lanes.

“I also think as fellow road users, we should show some common sense in sharing a road.

“The chap in this video clip could easily have rode around us as there were no cars in a very quiet street on a Sunday morning.

“Instead, he chose to be pedantic about the use of the cycle lane before purposely getting off his bike and causing damage to our car when he knocked his pedal and scraped along the bumper.”

The ECHO understands the incident has been reported to Merseyside Police.