2010-04-14 - Rider Down/Fatality, Oxford Street

Just picked this up on the Evening Standard website:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23824669-cyclist-fights-for-life-after-being-crushed-by-bus-in-oxford-street.do

Please let them be ok.

Yeah I just saw that. Does not sound good :(

Fuckin Jesus! I work 500yrds from there and have to cycle(battle at the mo) up there and through that junction and past that stop twice a day
It's all 'cos of the roadworks at TCR/Crossrail, the place is mayem at the mo

Hope she's OK

Looks really nasty. Finger's crossed she's ok

I hope the car that allegedly pulled out stuck around. Causation.

All my fingers crossed that she's ok.

Oh no.

I hope the car that allegedly pulled out stuck around. Causation.

That's the bit I don't get 'a car pulling out caused the bus to swerve'

Cars aren't allowed down there and it's a straight bit of road so it'll lead me to believe it would have been a taxi driving like a cunt or one of the 'site' cars that are parked up alongside the roadworks

oh shit. hope she's going to be ok, it's a nightmare around there at the moment

Hoping for good news, which I guess is no news.

It would have been a blue badge of death unfortunately 100% I have never seen those cunts use wing mirrors before pulling out. Fucker probably drove off as well

not good. fingers crossed.

Is that the one lane section now? Was there on saturday, must be a nightmare during the week

That's the bit I don't get 'a car pulling out caused the bus to swerve'

Aren't the roadworks in both lanes? It's like a slalom. Anything could have happened.

This place is really a deathtrap with what all the roadworks etc..Avoid for your own safety

Aren't the roadworks in both lanes? It's like a slalom. Anything could have happened.

Kind of. The traffic is only allowed from TCR west to Oxford Circus, then the diversion goes up Newman St. It's just chocka with buses and taxi's then add to that the tit peds stepping out from behind the buses/roadwork barriers.

This is awful, really hope the rider is ok

Hope the rider is ok, that photograph sent a shiver down my spine.
Not sure I would attach too much credence to some guy's "eye-witness account" which starts off with "I didn't see it but my mate said..."

Not looking good.

Here's hoping.

The police have just said she didn't pull through.
RIP

Oh fuck!!! :-(

RIP

Very sad. A totally unecessary waste of a life. Thoughts are with her family and friends.

I was just about to type something about being hopeful after reading the link :-(

The roads a free for all atm with all those god damn road works. Go boris. Hope she's okay.

Christ - one a month. How depressing. RIP.

R.I.P
I'm thinking of her family and friends. So sorry to hear she didn't make it.