{"id":1615,"date":"2026-05-11T06:08:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/biking-benedict-cumberbatch-has-heated-road-rage-fight-with-cyclist\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T06:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:08:56","slug":"biking-benedict-cumberbatch-has-heated-road-rage-fight-with-cyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/biking-benedict-cumberbatch-has-heated-road-rage-fight-with-cyclist\/","title":{"rendered":"Biking Benedict Cumberbatch has heated &#8216;road rage&#8217; fight with cyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/127422887.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Benedict\u00a0Cumberbatch found himself in the middle of a heated verbal altercation with a fellow cyclist after allegedly running a red light.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cDoctor Strange\u201d star was seen in a video abandoning his bike and walking over to the angry cyclist while in London last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re deluded, you\u2019re lying,\u201d the unknown male biker told the actor. \u201cI was behind you the entire time.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Benedict\u00a0Cumberbatch got into a heated verbal altercation with a fellow cyclist after allegedly running a red light last week. <span class=\"credit\">\/ SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The actor was riding in London when he got off his bike to confront the man. <span class=\"credit\">\/ SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Cumberbatch responded by accusing the man of \u201cverbally\u201d abusing him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh no, I verbally abused the guy who completely repeatedly broke the law,\u201d the man sarcastically responded before Cumberbatch admitted, \u201cI did it once.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The man then accused the \u201cSherlock\u201d star of running two other red lights, which he denied.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The man accused the \u201cDoctor Strange\u201d star of running a red light. <span class=\"credit\">\/ SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cYou\u2019re deluded, you\u2019re lying,\u201d the unnamed cyclist said. <span class=\"credit\">\/ SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The fight lasted about 10 minutes before the man left, and Cumberbatch took some time to pose with young fans.<\/p>\n<p>The onelooker who recorded the altercation said, \u201cIt was crazy. It was such a pompous road rage it almost felt like it had been staged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBenedict still managed to charm everyone watching even though he was having a meltdown,\u201d the eyewitness added. \u201cThey went at each other about five times.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cI was behind you the entire time,\u201d the man added. <span class=\"credit\">\/ SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Cumberbatch accused the man of verbally abusing him. <span class=\"credit\">\/ SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the man, Cumberbatch and the other cyclist \u201cblocked the lane so no one else could get through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The eyewitness stated that the heated cyclist had followed the \u201cImitation Game\u201d star until the latter pulled over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe masked guy was obviously some kind of vigilante \u2014 he was really taken aback when he saw it was Benedict Cumberbatch, but he doubled down on his rage,\u201d the man said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>According to the onlooker recording the video, the duo \u201cblocked the lane so no one else could get through.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\/ SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The fight lasted for 10 minutes. <span class=\"credit\">\/ SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t condone dangerous driving, but for this guy to follow him and cause an incident like this was worse than Benedict slowly cutting that light,\u201d the eyewitness said.<\/p>\n<p>The man added that school kids were passing by \u201cawestruck,\u201d and Cumberbatch politely told them to wait for photos.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/11\/celebrity-news\/biking-benedict-cumberbatch-has-heated-road-rage-fight-with-cyclist\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benedict\u00a0Cumberbatch found himself in the middle of a heated verbal altercation with a fellow cyclist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/127422887.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}