2009-08-10 - Rider Down, Southwark Bridge, North side

Whole place is closed off, ambulances, cops, the lot. I saw the mangled remains of a bike under the axels of a concrete mixing HGV. Fucking brutal. HGV must've been turning left onto the bridge and not seen the cyclist. Didn't see too much blood, hope the rider's OK.

Fucking hell this stuff shakes you up.

i hope this isn't bad news.
that's where a courier was killed a few years ago.

fingers crossed they had a lucky escape.

Here?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=southwark+bridge&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=51.510819,-0.093047&spn=0.000571,0.001206&t=k&z=20

I hope it's just a bike and the rider is ok.

Bad morning for it this morning. There was a really bad accident between a car and a motorbike on the embankment next to Waterloo bridge too. Motorcycle was ripped in half. Can't see how the biker will have walked away from that one, hope the cyclist faired a little better.

The roads seemed particularly crazy this morning, with lots of random manoevres being pulled - more than usual I mean.

Fingers crossed for both cyclist and motorbike rider.

Here?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=southwark+bridge&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=51.510819,-0.093047&spn=0.000571,0.001206&t=k&z=20

Yeah, that's the spot.

Tbh there's no chance it's just a bike with the amount of ambulances there, but yeah, I just hope it wasn't too bad. Horrible.

I cycled past the accident spot this morning going to work. The cyclist was actually stuck underneath the truck. I couldn't / didn't want to see more. I hope the cyclist will be ok.

Bad morning for it this morning. There was a really bad accident between a car and a motorbike on the embankment next to Waterloo bridge too. Motorcycle was ripped in half. Can't see how the biker will have walked away from that one, hope the cyclist faired a little better.

Unfortunately have to agree, the Waterloo Bridge one looked epically bad. Really hope all involved are ok.

Fingers crossed for both the cyclist and the motorcyclist.

Saw the wreckage of the motorcycle - a huge impact with a right-turning car. Didn't look promising.

This does not sound good at all. Fingers crossed though :(

it's right outside my office, i try not to look at accidents but my colleague said the bike is in between the front and second set of wheels of the cement mixer and the bike is badly mangled.

I do really hope there is a happy end to the story, and the motorcyclist.

it is exactly where a courier (Sebastien L------? according to the street memorial) was killed, and also less than 20m from where a commuter was killed about 9 months ago.

i saw the motorbike and it looked pretty bad.
i hope for the best

fingers crossed

What an awful start to the week.... :(

reading these rider down threads make my skin crawl, I hope both riders are ok.

Anyone know what bike it was? The girl i'm seeing cycles that way to work about that time of day? Can't contact her!

It was chaos coming in from South this morning. There have been loads of trucks around the south end of southwark bridge for a few weeks, too many.

I really, really hope someone wasn't killed this morning.

Anyone know what bike it was? The girl i'm seeing cycles that way to work about that time of day? Can't contact her!

Jesus. From what I could see it was a black hybrid but I wasn't looking hard.

Oh no.

As t.o. said, this isn't only where Sebastian Lukomski died, but another cyclist was killed very close to there last year.

Terrible news, whether it is a serious injury or a fatality.

There don't seem to be any reports up on-line yet. Let's wait for more information.

Jesus. From what I could see it was a black hybrid but I wasn't looking hard.

that's not hers. Here's hoping it is black. It was crazy this morning around tower bridge cycling to Hackney.

Blue Raleigh according to this..
http://twitter.com/#search?q=southwark

"kaybar007 Blue Raleigh bike under wheels of Jim'll Mix It concrete mixer on Southwark Bridge today, second squashed cyclist there in 11 months #SE1"

Christ, not just a HGV and but a place in which it's happened before.

Really hope it's not bad news.

yeah hope there is a happy ending to this.

Blue Raleigh according to this..
http://twitter.com/#search?q=southwark

"kaybar007 Blue Raleigh bike under wheels of Jim'll Mix It concrete mixer on Southwark Bridge today, second squashed cyclist there in 11 months #SE1"

Bianchi according to [ame="http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=839817"]this[/ame] but it's hard to be certain.