Dodgy-driving crusader Jermey Vine forced to pay £1,000 in damages after pranging Land Rover while performing a three-point turn

Published: 22:17, 24 April 2026 | Updated: 22:17, 24 April 2026 He's an avid cyclist, known for taking swipes at bad drivers. But Jeremy Vine admits his three-point turns aren't always up to scratch - with one scrape costing him £1,000 in damages. The TV and radio presenter scratched a Land Rover while doing the manoeuvre in a car park. The 60-year-old, who courts controversy online with his videos of dodgy drivers, claimed it was 'microscopic', adding that 'oversized SUVs' have ruined the atmosphere in the Devon village where he bumped the Landrover. Vine used to wear a helmet camera while cycling and has previously claimed that bad drivers in London don't get enough sex. So far he has caught a foreign diplomat using his phone behind the wheel, and van drivers dangerously cutting him up. He recently stopped recording drivers due to online abuse. Speaking about the village of Lympstone, he told Devon Life magazine: 'Only drawback - on my first visit I backed into someone's Land Rover while doing a three point turn in the rammed village car park, they arrived raging in their other car, and I had to pay them £1,000 for the microscopic scratch. The TV and radio presenter scratched a Land Rover while doing the manoeuvre in a car park The 60-year-old claimed the damage was 'microscopic', adding that 'oversized SUVs' have ruined the atmosphere in the Devon village where he bumped the Landrover 'Another place, sadly, where oversized SUVs have killed the back-in-time vibe.' His helmet-cam footage regularly sparks viral debates — sometimes over the driver's actions, other times over his own, such as whether he should be wearing hi-vis gear at night. He was the victim of a vicious rant earlier this year by a fellow cyclist as he commuted to work. Mr Vine, who accepted he should have signalled earlier, labelled him 'Britain's rudest cyclist'. Vine regularly posted clips of his London commute, often making the case that some motorists in his videos were driving dangerously and urging greater consideration to be given to cyclists. In 2023, he filmed his own bicycle being crushed by a removals van that veered down a cycle lane the wrong way. In a 2022 video titled 'Kensington - where bad roads and bad drivers come together', a Bentley driver swore at him. Last year, he announced he was stopping posting following extensive abuse of him and threats to his family. Speaking at the time, he said: 'I do have to deal with quite a lot of incoming, what you would have called flak in the olden days, but now they call it trolling. 'I shouldn't mind, but in the end I just thought I just want to now switch the narrative, I don't want to do this any more and in the end it did get to me,' the BBC Radio 2 presenter added. 'Car driving is a religion in this country,' he said, adding 'if you say anything that runs counter, that's what you get.' In 2018, Vine told the London Assembly transport committee that he filmed up to 40 driving offences every day cycling from Chiswick in West London to the BBC offices in Oxford Circus. The year before, a woman was jailed for shouting and making a gun sign at him as he cycled home from work. No comments have so far been submitted. Why not be the first to send us your thoughts, or debate this issue live on our message boards. By posting your comment you agree to our house rules. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual We will automatically post your comment and a link to the news story to your Facebook timeline at the same time it is posted on MailOnline. To do this we will link your MailOnline account with your Facebook account. We’ll ask you to confirm this for your first post to Facebook. You can choose on each post whether you would like it to be posted to Facebook. Your details from Facebook will be used to provide you with tailored content, marketing and ads in line with our Privacy Policy.