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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
and what is it with Roundabouts?! get in front of them and let them know your there!
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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.
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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.
Agreed.
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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.
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.
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Oh, I see. The cyclist collided with the lorry.
What a stupid thing to do :S
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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.
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I must get more efficient at all this forumengering...thanks for the worry peeps.
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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.
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Slack journalism. Journalists are primarily cunts
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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.
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^lol!
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"Journalist's face cut clean off by Spinergy rotating at high speed"
he was not wearing a helmet at the time.
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Slack journalism. Journalists are primarily cunts
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.
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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!!!! -
fuck man, that's a shocker - glad you're still with us
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heal well and heal soon
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2008-06-11 - Rider Down, Old Street Roundabout
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@hippy
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.