2013-11-13 - Rider Down/Fatality - Commercial St/Whitechapel Rd (London)

November 14 (Press Association) -- A cyclist has died
after being hit by a double decker bus - the second person to
be killed in a cycling accident on London's roads in 24 hours.

  Police were called to the junction of Whitechapel Road 

and Commercial Road in Aldgate, east London, at around 11.30pm
last night to reports of a collision between the bus and a
cyclist.

  The man was treated on the roadside by the London 

Ambulance Service but died in hospital at around 4am today,
Scotland Yard said.

  The male driver of the bus was treated for shock at the 

scene.

  No one has been arrested and investigations are under way 

to locate the cyclist's next of kin.