2012-01-10 - Rider Down, Victoria Street

A very serious accident at the corner of Victoria Street and Artillery Row.
What looks to be a mountain bike lying mangled in the road and a lorry pulled up outside house of Frasier. Another left turning lorry incident for sure. I have never seen a bike like that and I am pretty shaken up. They are seriously injured and are in hospital according to the Accident Response guy I spoke to :(

I hope they are ok

The amount of heavy construction traffic around here is shocking

Fingers crossed.

shit.

The construction going on around that spot is incredible - sideroads towards Greencoat Boy etc. are dicey.

Hope rider makes a swift recovery.

Please don't let this be as bad as it sounds.
Ten days is far too short a time to have passed before this years first potential cyclist fatality.

All of my positive thoughts are with the rider.

I could see the mangled bike from my office window and it looked like a left-turning lorry to me. Thoughts with and fingers crossed for the rider.

Not far from where I work, keeping my fingers crossed for the rider.

Round the corner from me too - I'm next door/above House of Fraser. Horrible scenes

The amount of heavy construction traffic around here is shocking

Yeah, I regularly come from North and South directions and on an almost regular basis have to share the road with heavy construction vehicles going to one of the 4 or 5 construction sites round here.

Well wishes to the cyclist. Hope you're ok too mikec.

I'm sure it's been covered elsewhere but wasn't there a campaign/petition about restricting big, cyclist killing vehicles from certain parts of London, at certain times?

Ross Lydall from the Standard just tweeted... Ambulance service: male cyclist, 36, seriously injured in crash with lorry at Victoria St/Artillery Row. Taken to St Mary's

Victoria street is a f*cking nightmare to ride down. Potholed, narrow, busy. And loads of lights. They need to sort it out. Best wishes to the poor chap. That's actually a pretty wide bit of the road too so the driver must have been way out of line.

I've left a post in the moderators thread to get the date corrected.

Twitter reports that there have been two cyclists involved in separate incidents. I hope that is only a rumour.

Damn, I got the date wrong. Sorry. Yes I read those reports, I think the earlier one must have been a mistake or a minor accident as there is nothing to suggest otherwise

Victoria street is a f*cking nightmare to ride down. Potholed, narrow, busy. And loads of lights. They need to sort it out. Best wishes to the poor chap. That's actually a pretty wide bit of the road too so the driver must have been way out of line.

You have no idea of what happened so it's best not to speculate that blame game...yet.

Ross Lydal (London Evening News - Chief News Correspondant) on twitter;

"Police say HGV involved in the serious (but non-fatal) cyclist collision this morning in Victoria St/Artillery Row was a Volvo tipper"

fingers crossed

I'm happy that its non-fatal at least. Heal well and fast.

Lucy Osbourne (Trainee journalist) on twitter;

"Apparently the 2nd cyclist was hit as he stopped at the scene of the first victim on Victoria St but had no major injuries"

Christ!

Well thankfully they survived and will hopefully make a good recovery. But getting hit while you are helping someone out? Man that is taking the piss. Still we don;t know what happened so no point in speculating

There's a guy posting on YACF who witnessed the accident;
http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=55596.0

"It's what every cyclist dreads. The police just called for a statement and said they think he's going to survive which is a miracle in itself as the back wheels ran over him"

The middle of that post gives me hope.

Bloody hell. That must have just happened only a few minutes after I passed through that junction. Strangely, I don't think it's that dangerous a bit of road. Will have to take a bit more care in the future.

It's not a dangerous bit of road per se. But the sheer volume of construction work taking place around there right now makes the whole are a bit dangerous. If you cycle along Victoria Street, 100% you will be overtaken by an HGV before you get to Vauxhall Bridge Road

My best wishes to the rider.

I know the road well and it is just opposite TfL headquarters.

hi guys , i saw the bike completly mangled down in victoria and coouldnt believe it , later to find out it was one of the e-courier guys , andy . he's in stable condition , broken leg , internal injuries and few other things i couldnt hear anymore of it( i was already feeling sick when i found out i knew him and couldnt recognise the bike) stay well away from lorrys guys

Send him wishes please mate.