London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

From my 10sec glance it appears as though a truck turning down City Rd has hit a rider.
Loads of cop cars and ambos directing traffic around the area.
Looked to be a guy on the ground being given oxygen on the inside of a parked truck.

Gulp.

Fucking trucks, every time!! Hope he/she's alright

Saw that, just saw the police looking under the wheels, didn't look too close as it was chaos in the queuing traffic!

dangerous britain.

saw one on my way home last night. i was on nine elms lane west bound when i passed an ambulance city bound. a minute later i saw a bike and a moped on the ground at the corner of cringle st. area blocked off by couple of cop cars

It was a huge MAN truck with a big Maersk container on it. I passed at 9.15am. The rescue had long passed by then it seemed.The bike lodged squarely between the front two wheels of the truck was light beige colour. Maybe a brown saddle. classic designed bike - not a mountain bike I'd guess.

Just got to work from Old St. The roundabout is all police-taped up with police cars blocking the southerly exit. That bike was right under the front of the truck but no sign of ambulances when I was there. Scary stuff indeed.

I was there earlier and the rider wasn't under the truck at that stage but kinda next to it, being attended by medics. Didn't see a bike.

I passed there about 9ish, no sign of the rider, just the bike between the front wheels. The cops were taking lots of pics. Hope the guy is ok, I'm pretty sure I've seen that bike around before :(

Was the lorry turning left onto northbound city road or turning south toward the city?
I have a pal who rides a cream bike west from east end in the mornings...

Looked to me like it was heading for the city...

Damn this was the crash on this news this morning.
They didn't mention a cyclist at all just that a truck had crashed at old st round about.

Turning south, heading towards the city.

Can you describe it? Frame? Bars? Bartape? Tyres?

Sorry I'm panicking a bit cos my friend aint answering his phone

The policeman i spoke to said the rider is okay though he may have a broken leg and has been lucky as he seems to have gone under the HGV.

bike was fixed (or ss - though no back brake), cream colour, ahead stem, and those bull bar extension bits on the end of risers, black Vs.

i went by after 10 and they still had it cordoned off to take pictures of where the bike was lying. Amazing that they held the traffic for so long.

Thanks Alan!

;)

I'm happy its not my mate, and very happy that the poor rider is still alive.

Sorry mate, all I saw was the cream bike... It looked quite stripped down so definitely a single speed and I may have seen some white trimmings on the handlebars but wasn't paying too much attention to specifics . Glad to hear that he is still alive, hopefully he recovers quickly.

I am very happy the rider survived. Looked like he went straight under the centre of the vehicle - but not too far. Those trucks have a huge blind spot at the centre front don't they?

sounds like peterd's bike?!?

FFS!! Don't ride beside trucks!!

(Not saying this guy did but that's what it looks like and it doesn't hurt to remind some of you)

+1

I'm shit scared of trucks after hearing about all the riders knocked/run over by them.

I'm hoping cream means it's not as Peter's is more grey/green but unfortunately Dale you're right, it may well be seen as cream.. oh man come on Pete log in mate...

Glad the guy is still alive, and what hippy said...give the trucks a wide berth! no point looking for indicators they seem to be broke or missing on most trucks :S

Everyone should read this if they have not all ready.

http://www.movingtargetzine.com/foru...s-from-nozzer/

peterD just posted on spotted, doesn't sound like a man who's just been hit by a truck.

The question is, is it someone on here? Get well soon dude, whoever you are.

Those blind spot diagrams are superb and frightening. I wonder if truck depots could put them out to their drivers so they, too, would be a little less blase about it.

+1

and what is it with Roundabouts?! get in front of them and let them know your there!

Judging by the position of the truck, it was in the wrong lane coming round the roundabout and was swinging across a lane of traffic to go south into the City. The position where the rider would have been is pretty much the normal position that everyone ends up in when they're trying to head straight across the roundabout from Old St east to Old St west.

I wasn't there at the time, though, just have been riding that route every morning for the last four years so have a vague idea of how things normally work there.

Eh? I saw him on the deck what seemed quite close to the rails on the inside, which made me think the cyclist was going to turn left into the city and undertook the truck. But I did say it was only a 10sec look.

Agreed.

Dunno, he'd been taken away by the time I went past. But the lorry was quite a way out from the railings, plus on a bike you tend to get forced onto the outside of traffic anywhere you are on that roundabout unless you're very assertive.

hackney gazette article


"A cyclist is a serious condition"

isnt it just!

+more info: islington gazette

yeah I saw the gazette today and it says that he may loose his leg. :(

Oh, I see. The cyclist collided with the lorry.

What a stupid thing to do :S

That's fucked up.. saw him on the deck :(
The only issues I've had with that roundabout are cunts in cars/trucks running the E-W red light when I'm moving off, but then I'm running most of the others, but then I'm not going to maim them in a crash.
I hope he heals but it doesn't sound promising. :(

Bloody hell :S I hope this fella heals up.

I must get more efficient at all this forumengering...thanks for the worry peeps.
Glad to hear the rider was okay...very very lucky if so.

ha, the accident was tragic but this is a weird article :

A police spokeswoman described his injuries as "potentially life-changing."

Get better fella whoever you are!

Newspaper reports are f*cking weird. 10 years ago I was hit by a car from behind at 70mph, leaving me with smashed teeth, a broken back and a severed tendon in my leg. Apparently I collided with a car and suffered cuts and bruises. My mum went mental and phoned the paper whilst I was recovering. New report printed with a much fairer assessment of what happened.

Slack journalism. Journalists are primarily cunts

I like the way news papers always state whether a rider was wearing a helmet or not as if to insinuate that not wearing a helmet means it's partially the riders fault or they were asking for trouble.

"Journalist's face cut clean off by Spinergy rotating at high speed"

^lol!

he was not wearing a helmet at the time.

Oi! Some are, some aren't. Same as any profession.


I'm a hack and a cyclist. Unfortunately I write about energy so am not going to be able to rectify the shitty local news coverage any time soon, but all the same...

Hope the chap in the crash is going to be okay.

There's a difference between journalists and writers. Journos are looking for the headline, writers get involved in their subject

glad you like it, i'm happy for you :)

hi guys. it was me. i was riding from east to west, hoxton way straight over the roundabout. was in correct lane when said container truck behind me chaneged lanes to go down moorgae way. hit me frombehind, bike went upon to his grill as my legs wentunder hiscab,followed by my bjke after it fell off his grill.

legs okay, ish. miracuklously no broken bones apart from big toe. wheels went over legs between ancles and knees, othereise culd have been a differnt story. had first op of plstics last night, got a few more to go.

thsnk you so much for the thread, andto everyone that knows me both on here and in real life im doing well. shoukd be out in a coule of weeks maybe.
sorry forthe crap typing - doing it from the hospital bedand their little keyb oard thngs are shiut!!!!

shit man, heal up quick. it's great to know you are ok.

fuck man, that's a shocker - glad you're still with us

shout out if ya need films, grapes, visits

heal well and heal soon