Sean Woollgar in Wairarapa Hospital on Monday. He has a broken leg after allegedly being pursued on to a footpath by a motorist and knocked off his bike.

A cyclist claims an angry motorist deliberately swerved on to a footpath to knock him off his bike.

Then, as Sean Woollgar lay on the ground with a broken leg, he says the man walked up to him and said: "Serves you right."

Woollgar, of Carterton, in Wairarapa, was cycling home on Friday evening when he became aware of a car following closely behind.

JACK BARLOW/STUFF Woollgar has had a 37cm plate inserted in his leg after it was broken in the hit-and-run incident on Friday.

"It began honking at me," he said from his hospital bed on Monday. "I turned around and said, you know, 'What's up?' "

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The car drew alongside and the young driver began swearing, he said.

SEAN WOOLLGAR The offending car drives off, in a picture snapped by Woollgar as he lay on the ground with a broken femur.

Woollgar, a video editor and camera operator, pulled on the footpath and turned into a side street to avoid the car.

But soon after riding back on to the road, he heard the squeal of tyres.

He pedalled as hard as he could, and pulled back onto the footpath, thinking that, with trees and a grass verge between him and road, he would have some protection.

He then claims the car swerved across the verge and hit him, sending him flying.

"I was lying on my stomach and I heard the car turning around," he said.

"I looked over and saw my leg at a crazy angle. I went to pick it up and it just flopped over."

The car pulled up beside him. The driver wandered over and asked Woollgar if he was OK.

"I said, 'No dude, you've broken my leg'. He said, 'It serves you right'."

He remains in Wairarapa Hospital, with his leg held together by a 37-centimetre plate. He will be on crutches for 15 weeks.

He said the whole incident came as a shock.

"I've never had road rage from drivers in Carterton before. I think of it as a peaceful place – I've never, ever experienced anything like this."

He said he had forgiven the driver. "I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was angry, and I just happened to be the person he took it out on."

Before the man drove off, Woollgar took pictures of his car.

Police have arrested a 22-year-old Carterton man, and said charges would be laid before a court appearance later this week.