THIS is the moment a cop sent an e-bike rider and passenger flying after slamming into them with his police car.
Footage showed ex-PC Tim Bradshaw hurtling towards Mason McGarry and Dominic Mizzi.
The 55-year-old then clipped the back of the e-bike – catapulting the pair across the wet road in Bognor Regis, West Sussex.
Driver McGarry then gets up and attempts to flee on foot as a police officer deals with Mizzi lying on the ground.
Bradshaw has now been cleared of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Portsmouth Crown Court heard McGarry, who was 17 at the time, suffered a broken tibia and required surgery.
The serial offender had more than 40 convictions – including for robbery, theft and dangerous driving.
Mizzi, 22, also has numerous convictions including for assaulting emergency workers.
The court was told that crash took place on November 3, 2022, as Bradshaw drove a marked Ford Focus.
He said he tried to follow the e-bike after it rode past his car on the pavement in an attempt to “goad” him.
Bradshaw said the same bike later pulled in front of him which is when he chose to make “tactical contact” at around 30mph.
But he claimed only he “nudged” the electric bike with the bumper of his vehicle and that it was Mizzi’s “own stupid fault”.
Bradshaw, who is now retired, added: “It was light contact, it was light enough, there was not a blemish on my police car.
“I believed it was a justified, necessary action.”
He said police were involved in regular pursuits with electric motorbikes in the seaside town.
Officers struggle to stop the riders because of the speed of the vehicles and their ability to go down alleyways and closed roads.
Mizzi had been involved in a past e-bike accident and another person had died in a crash nearby a month earlier, as revealed in court.
Bradshaw was also found not guilty of an alternative charge of causing serious injury by driving without due care and attention.
Following a brief deliberation of less than 20 minutes, a jury declared retired PC Tim Bradshaw not guilty, stated Andy Newman, Deputy Chair of Sussex Police Federation.
“This case demonstrates that police officers only have seconds to make decisions in order to uphold the law.
Bradshaw is optimistic that police departments will draw courage and assurance from the decision of this jury and continue to serve and safeguard communities.
“Police officers like Tim are out protecting communities 365 days a year, making sure that you are safe.
“He would like to thank his legal team of Mark Aldred, and MGR solicitors, and Sussex police federation and his family, that have supported him through the two years and three months that this has taken to come to court.”
