Video shows man push shopping cart into Toronto bike lane, sending rider crashing

Ethan Lang · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 30, 2025 5:24 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

A video shared online this week shows what appears to beryllium a brazen onslaught successful a Toronto motorcycle lane where a antheral launches a buying cart astatine an e-bike rider, sending him crashing into the pavement.

David Shellnutt, a lawyer and cycling advocator who shared the video to his X account, formerly Twitter, says the incidental happened conscionable earlier 10 a.m. Tuesday connected Danforth Avenue adjacent Monarch Park Avenue. 

In the information footage, 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. 

In the video, the antheral connected the e-bike has a ample container attached to his bike, commonly utilized by nutrient transportation workers. Shellnutt says he's been told different cyclist stopped to assistance the man, who is seen sitting up successful the video aft the crash.

Shellnutt says helium saw the video making the rounds connected societal media and shared it successful hopes idiosyncratic could assistance place the antheral who pushed the buying cart.

"It's important to get the perpetrator here," helium said successful an interrogation Wednesday. "To bring them to justness and guarantee that nary 1 other is injured."

Toronto constabulary did not verify the video, but said it matched the statement of an alleged battle that was called successful astatine the aforesaid clip and successful the aforesaid country that Shellnutt says the video was captured.

The caller successful that incidental told constabulary they saw a idiosyncratic propulsion idiosyncratic disconnected an e-bike successful a motorcycle lane, constabulary spokesperson Viktor Sarudi said successful an email. Saruki said officers spoke with the victim, who was taken to infirmary with insignificant injuries. Police are present investigating.

'We truly request to bring the somesthesia down,' Shellnutt says

Shellnutt, besides known arsenic The Biking Lawyer, says helium believes the onslaught reflects a signifier of aggression toward cyclists successful the metropolis successful caller years.

"This is simply a manifestation of anti-cyclist rhetoric, anti-delivery, e-bike courier rhetoric, and truly accrued hostility connected our roadways since the pandemic," helium said. 

"We truly request to bring the somesthesia down and recognize that everybody's conscionable trying to enactment and get location safely."

Tensions implicit motorcycle lanes successful the metropolis person besides gone up successful caller months, Shellnut said, since the state introduced authorities that gives them the powerfulness to region 3 large motorcycle lanes successful Toronto. 

An Ontario Superior Court justness granted an injunction against their removal this week, prompting Premier Doug Ford to rant against the justness who made the decision, calling him a "bleeding heart." Ford has said removing the motorcycle lanes would assistance easiness congestion successful the city.