Moment road vigilante Cycling Mikey confronts Mercedes driver appearing to inhale laughing gas ‘and using his phone’ at the wheel

This is the shocking moment a road safety vigilante filmed a man inhaling on a balloon and ‘using his phone’ while driving through London.  

Mike van Erp, 50, better known by his YouTube name CyclingMikey, shared footage of him approaching the man while he was sitting in traffic in a silver Mercedes. 

As he cycles up to the driver’s window, the motorist  – who is sitting in traffic – can clearly be seen with the balloon in his mouth, before quickly taking it out. 

He also has a mobile phone on his lap, with his left hand resting on top of it.  

Quizzing the driver, Mr van Erp asks: ‘Should you be puffing nitrous oxide and using your phone?’

Mike van Erp, 50, better known by his YouTube name CyclingMikey, shared footage of him approaching the man – who had a balloon in his mouth 

Quizzing the driver, Mr van Erp asks: ‘Should you be puffing nitrous oxide and using your phone?’ The driver replies ‘pardon?’ before denying using nitrous oxide 

‘Pardon?’ the driver replies. 

‘Why are using your phone? And you’re taking nitrous oxide?’ Mr van Erp asks again. 

READ MORE – How YouTube vigilante ‘CyclingMikey’ has caught out thousands of drivers, including Frank Lampard and Chris Eubank 

‘I wasn’t using nitrous oxide,’ the driver says. 

The motorist, who has his window open by several inches, then starts driving away. 

Mr van Erp said he reported the video to police last year but had received a ‘no further action’ response. 

This means police decided not to investigate the incident further, a decision that is often made when there is not enough evidence. 

Mr van Erp, who claims to have caught more than 2,000 driving offenders after passing evidence from his helmet cam to police, took down the man’s registration when he filmed the video. 

MailOnline has contacted him and the Met for comment.  

It comes weeks after the YouTuber filmed a monumental rant from a driver who bizarrely accused him of being ‘a Chelsea fan’. 

Mr van Erp rides around London with a GoPro to catch drivers breaking the rules before confronting them on video and noting down their number plate

His video showed the man sat in traffic behind a bus in a Fiat 500 while on his mobile phone.

But when Mr van Erp confronted him, the driver said ‘What are you f******* worried about it for anyway?’ before claiming he has cancer and is on the way to hospital.

He told the cyclist to ‘f*** off’ and threatened to get out of the vehicle, before driving off shouting ‘go on report me you f****** c***’.

The driver’s head then popped back out of his window and he shouted ‘And I bet you’re a Chelsea fan and all aren’t you’.

The dialogue took a strange twist when the driver asked Mr van Erp about his virginity. 

He said: ‘What a f****** k*** you are. I bet you’ve got no mates have you.

‘You’ve never had a bird have you. I bet you’re a virgin aren’t you. You f****** ugly little c***.’

Frank Lampard was previously caught on camera by Mr van Erp holding a phone while at the wheel of his car. Lampard was filmed driving his £250,000 Mercedes G-wagon holding a cup of coffee and his mobile but escaped prosecution because the CPS said there was ‘insufficient evidence’

Source: Read Full Article