A FEMALE cyclist almost came off her bike when slapped on the buttock by a passenger in a passing car, noon, Wednesday 20 July.
The Hampton woman was riding north along Nepean Hwy, Carrum, at about 35kph when she says she felt a hand slap her buttock. She looked up to see a maroon Holden utility with three people aboard driving past at about 40kph.The force of the slap “caused a sudden jolt and nearly threw her off the bike”, Chelsea police said later.
The woman stopped and rang triple zero and gave a description of the ute and its registration details to Chelsea police. Soon after, a police van intercepted a ute matching the description in Parkdale. The description of the man who allegedly slapped the woman matched the description of the rear passenger.
A 16-year-old, of Frankston, has been released pending summons for assault-related offences.
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 27 July 2016