2014-01-07 - Rider Down, Loampit Vale, Lewisham

Sorry to be posting this 2 weeks after the event but I have only just got out of hospital. This was me at about 8.30 in the morning heading west on Loampit Vale. I collided with a van. Outcome: ankle broken in a couple of places, torn ligaments and various other cuts and bruises. Haven't been able to assess bike yet, but I do know that the seat post was broken in two and the bars are bent.

Thanks to the two riders who stayed with me until the ambulance arrived. One, I noticed in my haziness, was riding fixed or SS, so may be on here.

I'm off the bike for a few months now but full intend to be back on that route by Spring.

Mend well and fast! (I did post that in Another Place.)

Heal up rider.

Sorry to hear about your injuries. Continue to heal up!

I collided with a van.

Was it you that hit the van or did the van hit you?

I'm just asking because we're usually wary of this sort of description in third party reports, but since you're reporting your own crash it may well have been the case as you wrote it?

RL posted more detail on yacf.

Sorry to hear about your injuries. Continue to heal up!

Was it you that hit the van or did the van hit you?

I'm just asking because we're usually wary of this sort of description in third party reports, but since you're reporting your own crash it may well have been the case as you wrote it?

I chose the words carefully - I rode into the back of the van, which had been forced to stop suddenly. No culpability on the driver's part.

Thanks, Redlight.

Hope you heal up soon.

Get well soon redlight.

Get well soon Redlight. I ride thro Loampit Vale every day- somehow surviving so far...