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# Road-rage coach driver rams pedestrian
## CCTV footage shows the moment a coach driver lost his temper with a car
owner and deliberately drove his eight-tonne vehicle at a bystander.
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Matthew Smith had been driving a rail replacement coach in February when the
driver of a grey Peugeot blocked his exit in an attempt to get his wife on
board.
CCTV footage outside Dorchester Street Station in Bath, Somerset, shows the
enraged 32-year-old euro Coaches driver climbing out of the coach to confront
the man.
During the argument he opens the obstructing car's door, releases the
handbrake and pushes it down the street.
As Smith drove his coach away he aimed it at a man taking photographs of the
incident on his mobile phone, clipping his backpack as he jumped out of the
way.
He has admitted one charge of dangerous driving and one of using threatening
language after the CCTV pictures were played to Bath Magistrates Court.
The court also heard that Smith leant out of his window and stuck his middle
finger up at a witness and a policeman as he drove away.
Amanda Chapman, chairman of the bench, described the incident as "nasty" and
ordered him to carry out 160 hours of community service.
"I have never seen something quite like it on the television before," she
said.
Mr Smith was also disqualified from driving for 15 months and ordered to pay
£50 compensation to the man he drove at.
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