2009-03-31 - Rider Down, Oval

Not much detail yet, more to come.

My girlfriend just phoned to say that there was a rider down by Oval tube, red/brown bike.

Apparently BRM is on the scene so should have more info.

Best wishes to the rider.

Feck.

Though you'd pulled a double there.

Not me again thankfully, hope whoever it is will be ok

oh dear. hope they're ok.

oh man, hope they are ok.

crosses fingers

Best wishes for the rider, good on BRM.

Dammit, are you intent on spending your recovery being the secondary co-ordinator of LFGSS after our lord and master VB, or being a central controller for fakengers? That'd be awesome.

Like Patrick Stuart in the X-men (but without the wheelchair)

or the special powers

hope the rider is ok

fingers crossed..

maybe this knock has given you super powers... when ever a rider is downed you get a sharp pain in your jaw indicating the rough direction of the fall.

Really hope the rider's ok, far too many accidents recently.

Ride safe people.

Like Patrick Stuart in the X-men (but without the wheelchair)

I hope Neil doesn't bump into Magneto not with his jaw upgrades!

hi peeps.
by the time i got near, they were putting the person on the stretcher, and there were tonnes of people around, so i didn't really catch anything of what happened. I didn't really like the idea of standing around rubber-necking, but to me, it looked like a girl, on a brompton, that had been hit near the median strip heading n-w along camberwell road towards oval. like i said, i got there after it happened, so i can only speculate.

Hallo - I was searching for possible witnesses when I found this thread - it was me on the road. I was heading up towards Oval when a car going in the opposite direction turning across my path as I was crossing the yellow box. I've got a few impressive scars and my knees are still giving me a few problems but I'm ok - could have been a lot worse. My Langster got written-off however and I damaged my Sidis :(

Anyway, it's really heart-warming to know that there are concerned people taking note. Not to make anyone vomit but that's one of the great things about the LFGSS forum/members. :)

Best, Opi.

Hope you are fully recovered.

Hallo - I was searching for possible witnesses when I found this thread - it was me on the road. I was heading up towards Oval when a car going in the opposite direction turning across my path as I was crossing the yellow box. I've got a few impressive scars and my knees are still giving me a few problems but I'm ok - could have been a lot worse. My Langster got written-off however and I damaged my Sidis :(

Anyway, it's really heart-warming to know that there are concerned people taking note. Not to make anyone vomit but that's one of the great things about the LFGSS forum/members. :)

Best, Opi.

Glad you're in one piece and have made a good recovery (apart from your knees). Was the driver caught?

glad you are okay.
like i said above, i got there too late to be a witness.

I damaged my Sidis :(

NOOOOOO!!!

Joking aside, glad to hear you survived this drivers lunacy.

Glad you're in one piece and have made a good recovery (apart from your knees). Was the driver caught?

Yeah, there was a policeman at the scene very quickly and he took the driver's details. In fact the PC brought my bike to the hospital and put it in a store room round from resus where I was treated, bless 'im (I didn't have a lock with me at the time).

Nice to hear a nice policeman story after all the recent nasty/unhelpful policeman stories on here.

Hallo - I was searching for possible witnesses when I found this thread - it was me on the road. I was heading up towards Oval when a car going in the opposite direction turning across my path as I was crossing the yellow box. I've got a few impressive scars and my knees are still giving me a few problems but I'm ok - could have been a lot worse. My Langster got written-off however and I damaged my Sidis :(

Anyway, it's really heart-warming to know that there are concerned people taking note. Not to make anyone vomit but that's one of the great things about the LFGSS forum/members. :)

Best, Opi.

So is the driver having his balls chopped off?

Nice to hear a nice policeman story after all the recent nasty/unhelpful policeman stories on here.

+1 - it's just too easy to whine on about 'all coppers are shit' it's just an extension of middle-class 'fuck tha system' reactionary bollox frankly :-)

There are some great coppers out there but if you treat them like pricks when you get pulled up for something minor, you'll probably get treated like a prick in return.

Glad to hear your ok and wishing you a speedy recovery. Do we know whats going to happen to the tool of a driver?

It wouldn't be politic to say too much but I do have a claim going through at the moment in regards to recovering costs/personal injury.

The PC was great and made sure he got the drivers details - put them in my bag for me so they would be easy to find. The paramedics were uniformally great too. Luckily the accident wasn't too far away from Kings - and being a teaching hospital (and a slow day in A&E) with lots of specialists I got a great deal of attention (Max-Fac etc).

I was a bit dismayed at receiving the standard 'not enough evidence to proceed with further action' letter from the police. There was one guy who identified himself as a witness and plenty of other people around.... but hey, I suppose I didn't really expect much more. It would have been of some satisfaction if the driver had been sent on one of those training/awareness courses though. Hopefully he'll look out for cyclists a bit more carefully from now on though...

Glad you're OK, opiumia, and ran into a bit of good luck amid the back luck.

I was a bit dismayed at receiving the standard 'not enough evidence to proceed with further action' letter from the police. There was one guy who identified himself as a witness and plenty of other people around.... but hey, I suppose I didn't really expect much more. It would have been of some satisfaction if the driver had been sent on one of those training/awareness courses though. Hopefully he'll look out for cyclists a bit more carefully from now on though...

I wonder by what criteria they send out those letters. They must dismiss a fair few cases, probably owing to having too little capacity, but timely legal advice can make a big difference in dealing with the police there, I think, if you want to pursue it in this way.

There was someone on the ground getting oxygen? at Shepherds Bush green around 18:10 tonight.
There was a scooter and mtb in the vicinity so I couldn't tell if the guy was a cyclist or scooterist.