The Guardian's bike blog

Also posted in relevant rider down thread

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2010/may/10/cycling-police

Quotation:

                                                         **Family of cyclist in police car collision calls for witnesses**

                                                       Cyclist seriously  injured in collision with police car in Islington

                                                                                                                                                                           Donald MacLeod, a friend and former colleague of the bike blog  team (and many others at the Guardian) was [knocked  off his bike and seriously injured](http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23818847-cyclist-critical-after-being-hit-by-police-car-on-way-to-shooting.do) while on his way home from work  on 24th March. He remains in intensive care at the Royal London Hospital  in Whitechapel.

He was hit at the junction Southgate Road and Northchurch Road in Islington by a police car that was responding to a shooting on a nearby council estate. The site of the collision is close to the Northgate pub.

The exact circumstances of the incident are not clear and Donald's wife is calling for witnesses to what happened. Please contact the family's solicitor Nigel Davison of Housemans Solicitors at nd@housemans.co.uk if you have any information.

We wish Donald a swift recovery.