Man facing charges after shopping cart launched at Toronto e-bike rider

CBC News

· Posted: May 01, 2025 9:51 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

A antheral has been arrested and charged for allegedly launching a buying cart successful the way of an e-bike rider successful Toronto this week, in an incidental that was captured connected information camera footage.

It happened connected Tuesday astir 10 a.m. adjacent Danforth and Monarch Park avenues, Toronto constabulary said successful a quality merchandise Thursday. 

The unfortunate was travelling westbound connected Danforth Avenue connected an e-bike erstwhile a antheral pushed a buying cart into his path, causing him to fall, the merchandise said. He was taken to infirmary with non-life-threatening injuries. 

A 47-year-old antheral from Toronto has been charged with mischief endangering life, battle with a limb and battle causing bodily harm, the merchandise said. 

He was scheduled to look successful tribunal Thursday morning.

In information camera footage shared Wednesday connected societal media by lawyer and cycling advocate David Shellnutt, a antheral is seen walking on a metropolis sidewalk pushing a buying cart. The antheral past pushes the cart into the motorcycle lane beside the sidewalk, hitting a antheral riding an e-bike. The antheral connected the e-bike past crashes to the crushed arsenic the different antheral continues to locomotion away. 

Anyone with accusation is being asked to interaction constabulary oregon permission an anonymous extremity with Crime Stoppers.