Why would you need witnesses when you have video evidence?
Witnesses need to introduce the evidence as to where they got it, where it was recorded, and how it was recorded, and if it was edited or it’s hearsay and inadmissible. These are common law evidence rules that are older than modern police forces and predate either pictures or video to where you were arguing about a tally stick contact. That said, the cops only want to be the sole depondent for citation level crimes usually so they’ve decided they don’t want to do the legwork of getting the person who recorded it to be the witness. They just don’t want to do the work. They’ll come up with reasons for that, but that’s the core.
“Without knowing the equipment that you use or how this is fitted, would you able to adjust your camera so that a part of your bike or wheel would be visible during future rides? This may assist in future should you have cause to submit any further footage to us.”
Everyone please do this. Get a second camera and attach it to your seat stem so the top of the rear wheel is visible to give something to calibrate to. Don’t stop sending in footage. Don’t give them an excuse to stop doing anything.
