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At the junction with Gray's Inn Road, eastbound, saw a cyclist on the ground about car's length in front of the stopping line. A silver Mercedes (S class?) was stopped halfway between the two lane, pointing slightly to the left.
The cyclist got up with a bleeding nose and confronted the driver, dripping blood all over the tarmac. Both the driver (white middle-aged man) and the passenger (white middle-aged woman) was being very aggressive and kept yelling at the cyclist. Pedestrians took photos of the driver and the car, and after a while he drove off with blood stain on the driver's door.
Someone dialed 999 and gave the description of the driver and car. The hairdresser "Glamour House" across the road asked the injured cyclist to go in and rest while waiting for the ambulance. He was wearing a helmet and had a walkie talkie on his messenger bag. He was shocked and confused but remembered today's date. Witness says he was punched so I guess if there was a crash it wasn't too bad.
While I didn't see how it happened, seconds earlier I saw the same Mercedes speeding past and deliberately cut off the cyclist in front of me, then throwing verbal abuse through open windows before the cyclist could say anything. The cyclist who was cut off collected several witness' contacts and waited for the ambulance/police to come.