2023-01-29 Rider down, A40 Western Avenue, near the junction with the B456 Alperton Lane

Terrible bad luck:

A cyclist has been left with life-changing injuries after a car flew into a west London cycle path and struck him as he rode his bike.

Mark Thomas, 59 , was cycling along a dedicated route by the A40 near his home in Ealing around 7.40am on January 29, when the horror crash happened.

The driver of a black car is understood to have struck a crash barrier designed to protect the cycle lane, sending the car airborne and flying into Mr Thomas.

The dad-of-four was rushed by air ambulance to St Mary’s Hospital, where he underwent five-hour emergency surgery to save his life.

The crash left Mr Thomas with “severe, life-changing injuries”, losing the equivalent of all the blood in his body, and needing skin grafts to his legs.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/ealing-cyclist-hit-by-car-crash-bike-path-life-changing-injuries-b1058852.html

Mark Thomas, 59, was on the cycle path in Greenford, near the junction with Alperton Lane, when he was sent flying into the air by a car.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/ealing-dad-knocked-bike-a40-26178881

It's hard to say where exactly this may have been, as there are several sections fitted with crash barriers (old-style and not very effective) close to the Alperton Lane junction, north and south of the A40. Here's one such section:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5319141,-0.3099074,3a,75y,257.32h,78.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smcdMughCKQAm1EgFkCuL4Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

(What is described in the articles as a 'cycle lane' is actually a shared-use path, i.e. for cyclists and pedestrians.)

Although medical opinions as conveyed in the article sound pessimistic, here's to Mark recovering as well as possible.