A woman has been charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving after a cyclist was allegedly chased 200 yards down a road by a motorist.

Jusine Henshaw-Bryan, 24, is accused of knocking cyclist Damien Doughty off his bike in Stoke Newington on February 10, this year.

Mr Doughty, a 37-year-old musician from Hackney, was left critically injured in hospital after he was hit by a car in Victorian Grove, close to Stoke Newington police station at 9pm that evening.

He was taken to the Royal London Hospital suffering a laceration of the liver, a punctured lung and other injuries.

Henshaw-Bryan, of Yoakley Road, was charged on September 22, police said.

She has been bailed to appear at Thames Magistrates’ Court on October 19.