Pictured: Father who filmed his boy, 5, cycling in highway that sparked social media storm

A father insists that his five-yr-aged son has each individual right to ride on a road following a video clip of the boy’s in the vicinity of pass up with a car sparked a furious row among Jeremy Vine and Sajid Javid.

Ashley Zhang-Borges, 36, filmed his son as he cycled to college and capture the moment a vehicle ‘squeezed’ previous the lad – prompting viewers to hold their breath.

He posted the movie on his Twitter feed and he has now been seen virtually two million times with much more than 75 for every cent of folks in his favour.

Police have also sided with him but previous Home Secretary and Chancellor Mr Javid backed the motorist – sparking an online row concerning him and broadcaster Jeremy. 

But talking on Vine’s BBC demonstrate, Mr Zhang-Borges stated: ‘The specifics are apparent on this one, the driver was erroneous, and my son has just about every correct to journey in the street. Which is distinct minimize.’ 

He additional: ‘You can see from the clip that they really should have stopped way sooner than they did. They experienced lots of distance to make that final decision. We had lights on, reflective apparel, so substantially time to quit.

‘People will argue ‘Plenty of space, you could generate a bus by way of there’, very well I am sorry, which is not in fact factually right even a little. The info are very clear on this a person, the driver was erroneous, and my son has each individual appropriate to trip in the road. That is distinct slash.’

Ashley Zhang-Borges, 36, filmed his son as he cycled to university and capture the minute a car ‘squeezed’ earlier the lad

Footage demonstrates a boy biking together a road in Kingston, south-west London. A car strategies from the other course and passes without incident, but the parent filming his son from guiding criticises the driver for not halting or slowing

The incident transpired before this month as Ashley was using his son to university in Kingston, south-west London, and he can be listened to contacting the driver of the blue Ford Aim included an ‘idiot’.

In the clip the tiny boy is noticed cycling in the direction of oncoming targeted traffic and as a vehicle methods his father is listened to to say to his son ‘Keep likely, retain going.’ just before shouting at the automobile: ‘Aren’t you likely to end?’

Jeremy – a effectively-recognized biking advocate – highlighted the footage on his Channel 5 exhibit and questioned viewers who was in the wrong and the backbench MP stated on social media: ‘The five-yr-old’s father’.

The broadcaster, a well-acknowledged cycling advocate, slammed the motorist on Twitter for not heading ‘dead slow’ when driving earlier the boy, and mentioned anyone who disagreed should ‘cut up their driving licence and mail the items back to the DVLA’.

On Vine’s display, Mr Zhang-Borges, who stood as a Labour social gathering councillor in regional elections previously his calendar year and dropped, went on to the host that the gap concerning his son and the car or truck was ‘less than a metre’ and that the motorist was ‘legally and morally wrong’ adding: ‘Everyone is aware that it was too close.’ 

The debate was raised by avid bicycle owner Jeremy Vine through his exhibit on Channel 5, pictured

Sajid Javid (pictured) clashed with Jeremy Vine about a controversial movie displaying a vehicle passing ‘too close’ to a 5-calendar year-outdated bicycle owner

Mr Vine – who is an avid bicycle owner – was among those defending the father for enabling his boy to cycle alongside the road

When in an job interview with Biking Weekly, Ashley slammed the now backbench MP and mentioned: ‘I imagined there was no way that he, the previous chancellor, was wasting his time with this. Also I was stunned that he was coming out and so clearly blaming me, not the weak driving in the movie.’

The Highway Code was current in January to allow cyclists to acquire the centre of lanes at instances, acquiring previously been requested to hug the kerb.

The up-to-date direction reads: ‘Cyclists ought to make themselves as seen as attainable by riding in the centre of lanes on peaceful roadways, in slower-transferring site visitors and at the technique to junctions.

‘They should really also maintain at least .5m from the kerb facet on busy roads and really should go away 1m when passing a parked car.’

In a Tweet Surrey Street Police also backed Ashley and his son and explained: ‘If you look ahead there is a pinch point with priority to traffic travelling the exact same course as the riders. Had there been a vehicle travelling in the direction of the driver, the driver would have experienced to of pulled in excess of in the hole at the rear of the parked cars and trucks.

‘The Highway Code was not too long ago current making a hierarchy of road customers. The driver must have slowed/stopped to give the rider home to go securely. The hierarchy does not take away the have to have for all people o behave responsibly in this scenario we imagine the riders did very little mistaken.’ 

Mr Vine, a effectively-recognised cycling advocate, took to Twitter to slam the motorist, but Sajid Javid responded claiming the boy’s father was at fault

Mr Vine tweeted ‘I mustn’t respond’ in frustration adhering to Mr Javid’s tweet

Keen bike owner Mr Vine took to social media last thirty day period to berate yet another motorist whom he accused of driving dangerously in Kensington.

Submitting footage on Twitter of the tense conversation with a supercar driver in the coronary heart of London, Mr Vine branded the motorist the ‘Ronnie Pickering of Kensington’ following the driver declared him ‘a d**k’.

The video clip confirmed the television presenter on his bike with a £200,000 Bentley beeping its horn driving him.

Following the luxurious supercar undertakes Mr Vine, the motor then methods two other cyclists who are in the highway.

When the traffic lights change purple, Mr Vine trundles to his driver-aspect window to confront him about his manoeuvres.

The Eggheads and Radio 2 host exclaims: ‘Oooooh, you happen to be pretty a risky driver, mate.’

But the motorist does not again down and instead tells him: ‘You’re in the wrong lane, why are not you in that lane?’

He then factors to the curbside still left hand side of the highway, to which Vine edits extraordinary small piano notes more than the footage and provides textual content bemoaning the absence of a cycle lane. 

Mr Vine is then read quizzing him: ‘Why do you consider you have obtained a suitable to go ahead of me just due to the fact you happen to be in a auto?’

The motorist tells him: ‘Because you intentionally went in entrance of me and in the completely wrong lane. Get in the bloody cycle lane. I push how I want. You will not individual the street, believe it or not.’

The driver seemed nonplussed by conference Mr Vine and instructed him ‘My name’s Paul and you are a d**k’

In August, Mr Vine also shamed a moped driver for speeding through a zebra crossing in between two pedestrians.

Mr Vine wrote on Twitter: ‘Does this subject? Are zebra crossing incursions really worth reporting? From my trip this early morning.’

In the footage, Mr Vine zoomed alongside the street in the cycle lane and then stopped for the pedestrians on the crossing.

He drew purple circles all over the numerous pedestrians who were being walking throughout.