2010-11-19 - Pedestrian Down, Elephant and Castle

Look very fatal, huge queues, couple buses, 2 fire truck, ambulance and blue tent covering victim.

(typing from phone)

Oh, fuck... :[

Ped...?
Cyclist...?
Any indications...?
Maybe a car if the fire brigade are there.

"Ambulance helicopter and emergency response crew in Elephant&Castle. Ring road blocked." - from twitter (@roundaboutnews RT)

No idea hence 'someone'

Fuck!

Good photo Journalism Ed.

Shit.

You do see some horrible driving / riding from everyone concerned on that stretch of road. I really hope it hasn't cost someone's life.

I went through E&L about an hour ago. No sign of an accident.

Hope whoever was involved is ok.

This is hearsay:

I was told by someone at the scene that it was collision between a pedestrian and a bus and that the victim was taken away by ambulance.

Why on earth does the Cycle Super Highway take you straight through Elephant. Stupid.

Anyway, hope whoever was involved is ok.

^^ There is a report on twitter, that says the same - ped hit by a 68.
Not sure whether it was a fatality, but it suggests it might have been - lets hope not.

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/7289bv

Why on earth does the Cycle Super Highway take you straight through Elephant. Stupid.

It didn't, it take you around the roundabout.

I just rode on the road.

Just been round here. Tent now gone, Bus has a large impact mark on the Left side of it's windscreen, and the lower front panel that holds the lights/grill looks loose but outwardly undamaged.
Tragedy though it is, I suspect a bike would have caused more damage to the lower part of the bus.

Air ambulance in attendance too, although I've seen 2 ambulances leave the scene already.

Looks like it was a ped.

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4952

Ouch, just from the smashed glass on the bus you can tell that must have been one serious impact.

Let's hope he or she recovers.

It didn't, it take you around the roundabout.

I just rode on the road.

You really are a knob sometimes.

Sounds awful. :(

Best wishes to the victim.

Why on earth does the Cycle Super Highway take you straight through Elephant. Stupid.

Anyway, hope whoever was involved is ok.

It didn't, it take you around the roundabout.

I just rode on the road.

You really are a knob sometimes.

Not quite sure what's going on here, but I suppose that Ed meant that CS7 doesn't go along the main streets that feature the large roundabout and the smaller one that's being converted to a T-junction at the moment, but takes a little backstreet route around all this (western and eastern branches).

Just moved from Glasgow. Cycling in this city is mad. You have to be so bold to survive. When will the TFL and for that matter, the government start to appreciate that the volume of cyclists being 'anarchistic' and trying to keep ahead of the traffic to avoid injury is simply a measure of the need for a less motor-biased road network, which surely is not much to ask given climate concerns and the fast declining availability of fossil fuels (not to mention the nation's health)?

This was just covered by the frankly quite good 24hrs in A+E, along with a cyclist and a ladder fall.

Theodorus was his name I think, a greek LSE student, and he survived and despite an epic pelvic fracture- the X-ray/ CT scan shown was amazing- he walks again.

William, the cyclist, was not mentioned in our rider down section I don't think, but had a fall on the same day- circumstances unmentioned.

^oh was it him. I just caught the end of that programme with William the cyclist who fell on his head (I like the bit when the doctor explains all sorts of things to him including how to sneeze and the nurse looks at the doctor and tells him that there is no way William can remember anything at all he is so concussed and proceeds on asking William "what did the doctor say" "errr I'm in Kings Cross hospital" :D)

I saw a bit of Theodorus' story, the x-ray (aaaaargh!), his gratitude for being alive and him sitting in a wheelchair but stands up and walks away. Wonderful.