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I passed by this on my way home. It was a Boris bike in the middle of the road where the cycle lane crosses the junction with the trafic heading eastbound towards the hospital.
Various artefacts were scattered around the bike, lots of police too. Looked pretty nasty.
Really hope the rider was ok but it was just a matter of time until this happened. I'll cross the same intersection on my way in tomorrow, will keep an eye out for any info.
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Think the accident was further down the road by oxford circus. Police blocked off half the junction and there was an ambulance, couldn't see what happened though.
I think you must be talking about something else. Oxford Street was closed by police for motor traffic westbound. No problem with cyclists going through. I had a lovely, calm ride down Oxford Street, which was very traffic-calmed, and many pedestrians walking in the carriageway. That bit was great. I didn't pick up that something might have happened in Tottenham Court Road. At Oxford Circus, as you say, there were quite a few police and an incident response unit. I can't imagine that this would have been connected to a TCR incident, though, as it's just too far away. I'll have a Google now to see if there's any news on-line.
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Can't seem to find anything about this. Hope the cyclist isn't too badly injured.
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I think you must be talking about something else. Oxford Street was closed by police for motor traffic westbound. No problem with cyclists going through. I had a lovely, calm ride down Oxford Street, which was very traffic-calmed, and many pedestrians walking in the carriageway. That bit was great. I didn't pick up that something might have happened in Tottenham Court Road. At Oxford Circus, as you say, there were quite a few police and an incident response unit. I can't imagine that this would have been connected to a TCR incident, though, as it's just too far away. I'll have a Google now to see if there's any news on-line.
Ah right, thanks for clearing that up. I saw you waiting at the traffic lights of Proctor street to turn onto Holborn, crossed the road in front of you but didn't want to say anything just in case it wasn't you.
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I almost never get spotted when I ride my geared hack bike. Stealth mode.
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Not difficult with me--I almost never spot anyone, either. But let's get back to the subject of the thread.
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Hey. I was walking past, I did not see the accident but I saw the guy on the floor which his head cut open the size of a hand. It was eerie, we could not see a helmet, the guys legs were going back and forth either having a seizure or in pain. It was shocking and sad :( can't find anything in the news this morning...
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Hit by a bus, we saw the bus pulled over and the driver being questioned in a police van too. On our way to the hospital saw the guy on the floor, on the way back from our visit saw the debris, the area taped off and man being questioned. It looked like the cyclist was hit somehow bang at the crown of his head
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Sounds dreadful. Here's a mention on another forum, but it only links back to us:
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Sounds dreadful. Here's a mention on another forum, but it only links back to us:
there was a mention on the AA live traffic report - cached, only to mention the road (A501) was closed because of an accident
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More detail on exact location here:
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I think this might be the incident my boss was talking about seeing the other day. Apparently the bus floored it to sneak through the lights on the cusp of red, and the bike (along with loads of peds) was doing that thing of anticipating the light change too, and setting off sharpish.
The timing of lights is ridiculously close as it is. I've raised this issue before. With everyone keen to sneak through/set off at the first available nanosecond, it would make sense to have a pause of a few seconds between red light and green man. But of course they'll want to keep the traffic moving...
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Ouch. Were any of the pedestrians injured, as well? Yes, a lot of junctions are engineered way over capacity, and that certainly applies to a lot of traffic signal timings.
It's curious that no-one seems to have Twittered about it or put news on-line otherwise.
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I think this might be the incident my boss was talking about seeing the other day. Apparently the bus floored it to sneak through the lights on the cusp of red, and the bike (along with loads of peds) was doing that thing of anticipating the light change too, and setting off sharpish.
The timing of lights is ridiculously close as it is. I've raised this issue before. With everyone keen to sneak through/set off at the first available nanosecond, it would make sense to have a pause of a few seconds between red light and green man. But of course they'll want to keep the traffic moving...
As though that would make any difference! Not the place to mention this but I hit a ped on King Street heading southbound just getting onto London Bridge. The lights holding the southbound traffic are quite far off, so you can't accuse road users of sneaing early. It's a fast junction yet folk insist on meandering across without looking adequately. He went down pretty hard, which, I felt bad about but that was tempered by the risk to my safety (especially if I end up swerving onto the wrong side of the road into on coming traffic).
Once he was ok he immediately aknowledged his error. I just don't get it.Hope the rider above is/will be well.
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2010-11-26 - Rider Down, Tottenham Court Road / Euston Road
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No bike today, so just been passed warren st on bus diversion (20:00ish), bike lying in the road and bus stopped further ahead, no sign of anybody but police still on the scene. hope rider okay, anybody have any news