CyclingMikey
Michael van Erp, better known as CyclingMikey, is a Dutch YouTuber who films London drivers using their mobile phones, as well as committing other traffic offences, which he reports to the police and later uploads to YouTube.
Since 2019, he has caught and exposed several high-profile celebrities allegedly committing such offences, including Guy Ritchie, Chris Eubank, and Frank Lampard. His activism was prompted by his father's death in a road traffic collision with a drunk driver.
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In November 2019, Van Erp filmed Guy Ritchie using a mobile phone while driving. Ritchie was subsequently prosecuted and banned from driving for six months. In 2021, he filmed Chris Eubank driving through a red light, an offence for which Eubank was subsequently prosecuted. In April 2021, he filmed Frank Lampard using a mobile phone and holding a hot drink while driving, but the prosecution was later dropped, due to insufficient evidence, after Lampard hired lawyer Nick Freeman to deal with the case.A regular location for Van Erp's videos and reports is a crossroads beside Regent's Park, which he dubbed "Gandalf Corner", where he waits and has stopped many drivers from driving on the wrong side of the road past a pedestrian crossing island to avoid queueing to turn right.
In November 2022, Van Erp appeared on the BBC television programme Panorama in an episode titled "Road Rage: Cars v Bikes". In April 2024, Van Erp released a video of himself running a red light in Belgravia, London. He stated, "It's my mistake, I hold my hands up, I'm at fault there.... I missed that the other two traffic lights were still red", and added, "If the police prosecute me, so what? I'll pay the fine, you're not going to see me complaining."