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I followed a fire truck on the way home (I live on Queen Elizabeth St) over Tower Bridge and saw him under the truck probably 5-10 mins after it happened.
His leg(s) were under the front wheel - he seemed calm (or maybe in shock) with the medics looking after him. At that stage there were 3 or 4 ambulance/police cars on the scene with police tape up as the police station is about 30m away. The firemen in the truck I followed put up the dreaded blue tarp at that point but from what I could see thankfully he is alive - I hope his legs are ok.
The incident happened a metre or so right of the storm water grate here http://goo.gl/maps/2dNHo and the truck was a very long multiwheeled flatbed which was carrying no cargo. I couldn't help but think, on that tight left turn off Tower Bridge Road a flatbed of that length would probably go over the footpath mid way through the turn unless he took a very wide trajectory into the other lane exiting west side of Queen Elizabeth St on to northbound Tower Bridge road.
Hope he comes out of it OK. Stay behind trucks, buses etc guys.