Jeremy Vine said he would no longer publish videos of his meetings with motorists while cycling because of the level of online violence he receives – saying “it reaches me”.
The television and radio presenter for years has had clips on his journey in London, and argued that some motorists in his videos drive dangerously and greater consideration must be given to cyclists.
He spoke on Monday to BBC Radio 4 on Monday to each other of his decision, after announcing on Sunday on the social networks that he would stop downloading the videos.
“I have to face a lot of steps, which you would have called Flak in ancient times, but now they call it to hang out,” he said.
“I shouldn’t bother myself, but in the end, I just thought that I just wanted to change the story, I don’t want to do it anymore and at the end, it happened to me,” added the presenter of BBC Radio 2.
“Driving by car is a religion in this country,” he said, adding “if you say something that flows the counter, that’s what you get.”
He read examples of the comments he had received online, in which people said they wanted to see him injured on the road or made personal comments on his family.
“Please download another cycling video if you are passing and hospitalized,” was among the comments read by Vine.
Many Vine publications trigger an online debate on driver’s actions and its own, while a language used by Vine during the words of motorists has been a divider.
Last week, he told the Podcast of the Gaby Roslin diffuser “all the people who do not get enough sex locking in small metal boxes and leading to London” during the description of his experiences in the capital.
“This is fundamentally what is happening in our society,” he added.
Misted by Le Monde in a presenter Helen Montague to find out if her own behavior had been militant, Vine said that he was “only a first type of security”.
“If you drive and want your children to be safe in the back, you are just a sensible person,” he added.
“If you are cycling and you really prefer not have your head crushed by the wheel of a bus, you are described as militant or radical.”
Vine also mentioned his bicycle recently stolen at his home among the reasons why he plans to stop publishing the clips.
Writing on social networks, he said: “Holiday fishing has become too bad. They had more than 100 million views, but in the end, the anger they generate really upset me.
“My goal was only to make us that we all led to think about the dangers of trying to move in cities on a quirk.
“I know that I have a little cross sometimes when a pilot has, let’s say, withdrew without watching, but I have never downloaded the film to show the danger.”
In 2018, Vine told London Assembly Committee that he had filmed up to 40 driving crimes each day by CHISWICK bicycle in western London at the BBC offices in Oxford Circus.
The previous year, a woman was imprisoned for having shouted and gave her a firearm panel when he was by bicycle at the Maison du Travail.
