2010-06-23 - Rider Down, Old Kent Rd / Humphrey St

Giant ambulance (you know the massive trucklike ones?) attending to a cyclist on the pavement. Black MTB with clip-on rear plastic mudguard was leaned up on a wall behind them....

Blue plastic bag-like material around the person down, which gave me a bad feeling.

No tape / screens up and no police present.

Two ambulance men - one onlooking and one seemingly crouched by the person.

Person looked to be in a slump although it could have been clothing - was hard to tell.

Crossing everything for them.

:(

Those two streets don't have a junction, Niamh--where exactly was it?

ah sorry.......i was muddling my roads in the map in my head, which funnily enough does not correspond to anything as it actually appears on a London map!

It was where OKR meets humphrey st- looked like possible collision or maybe a solo tumble off the road onto the pavement......

could have been a car heading from Humphrey St onto Albany road, or just a fall onto the pavement. The scale of the ambulance and the position of what looked to be the cyclist (a bit too far in on the pavement to have fallen - looks to have travelled some distance) suggested something ominous.

I hope I am wrong.

26-06-2010 is in two days time...

who ever it is, i wish them well

Yes, I didn't see the date mistake, either. I can't seem to find any reference to it in the papers. There would probably be if it had been a fatality. It may well be a serious injury.

LOL!

I came from the future.

Sorry, I was in a hurry to get to sleep..... Late night. etc etc.

tipsy typo's! :/

Yes apologies again for the plethora of errors. amended!

This may well be a very stupid question, which I cannot find the answer to on the London Ambulance site, but I've seen a few of those big ambulances about and wondered what the difference was, besides the obvious fact that they are bigger?

It is my reason for assuming that the accident was serious, but this assumption is founded on nothing other than the fact that the ambulance was not a 'regular' ambulance....

(although given all my mistakes in this thread I will forgive you if you don't believe me!)

Pretty sure they are new 'American style' ambulances which come from the States, are more effective and are therefore slowly being introduced.

Think of them as grey squirrels and 'traditional' ambulances as red.

I don' think they're american; sure they have the cubed rear quarters but they're either Mercedeces sprinters or VW crafters; both of which share the same platform and same engine.

At a first aid course I went to, they said one of the reasons they have a few of these is to deal with people who don't fit in a regular ambulance.
I doubt that's the only reason, but if you need to call an ambulance for a heifer then it is worth telling them otherwise there might be a delay as a regular one arrives only to have to then call for a big 'un