Social media users express outrage over video of apparent road rage incident involving a four-wheel-drive driving threateningly close to a cyclist in Glen Forrest

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A video of a four-wheel-drive reversing at speed towards a group of cyclists in an apparent case of road rage has prompted outrage on social media.

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Perth cyclist Paul Evans posted the on-bike camera footage, shot in Glen Forrest in Western Australia, to his Facebook page on Sunday afternoon.

“My ‪#‎Fly6 captured this road rage incident today in Glen Forrest,” Evans captioned the video. (A Fly6 is a tail-light that doubles as a camera.)

The video shows a Land Rover passing the cyclists in the opposite direction, then stopping and starting to reverse at speed. The four-wheel drive crosses the centre line in an apparent attempt to force the rider closest to him off the road.

Titled “Land Rover Vs. Bike”, it has since been shared more than 1,000 times.

“It was close,” Evans said in comments on Facebook below the video. “We are all OK. Just lucky as it could have been worse.”

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Ross Drabs, the rider at the rear of the group, said the footage “shows up clearly”.

“He made a definite attempt to run me down,” he wrote.

“You had luck on your side,” Evans replied.



Both said they had reported the incident to police, but attempts to contact Mundaring police were unsuccessful.

WA Today reported that Mundaring police had not yet received the reports.