2013-07-15 - Rider Down/Fatality, Holborn/Procter Street (London)

No sure what happened but bike under truck at holborn and kingsway. Ambulance working Inman, does not look good. Not sure if should be posting but thoughts to rider and his family. Hoping for a better outcome.

Yeah, lorry driver receiving CPR from shock. This has happened outside our store on Procter Street.

Doesn't look good for the rider; my mechanic walked past just after it happened and advised me not to investigate further. He's pretty shaken up.

Thoughts to riders family and friends.

Oh no, fingers crossed for all involved - I saw the orange-suited ambo folk running from the helicopter that had just landed outside my work, and my heart sank. Please stay blue, lfgss logo...

Oh gosh.

Please stay blue, lfgss logo...

This. Thoughts with rider, family and friends.

Shit, well I hope for the best for driver and rider if thats the case. (driver getting cpr)
hope the logo stays blue.

Terrible news. Hope both parties OK. Twitter user @Willperrin is at the scene and posting. One of those sketchy tipper trucks by the looks of it.

BBC's @TomEdwards has reported that this was a fatality. RIP rider.

:(

Still keepin my fingers crossed

Not again. My thoughts with all involved and with everyone who has lost someone these past few weeks.

Just seen this on the BBC's London ticker feed:

CYCLIST DEATH
1014: A cyclist died this morning following a collision with a lorry on High Holborn where it meets Kingsway, in central London, the Met confirms.

Searching for official citation at the moment.

Citation 1

FFS not again! Thoughts are with the family and friends. Makes me feel grateful I got it easy yesterday.

BBC London radio is reporting it as a fatality and BBC News is tweeting it too -

Tom Edwards ‏@BBCTomEdwards Cyclist has died following a collision with a lorry in London. Police were called 9:25am to the scene on High Holborn.

RIP :(

Absolutely tragic. So much for this safety in numbers bullshit logic of Boris'. RIP rider and feelings going out to his family and friends.

RIP rider. Just awful...

Cyclist dies in crash with lorry
A cyclist has died following a collision with a lorry in central London, the Metropolitan Police said.

The crash happened outside Holborn Underground station in High Holborn at about 09:25 BST.

The cyclist was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, a police spokesman said.

High Holborn is closed from Grays Inn Road to Kingsway as police investigate the crash. Several buses in the area have been diverted.
Citation 2 (BBC)

My sincere condolences to the riders Family and friends.

A route I use pretty much every morning and frequently feels sketchy where the roads narrow/merge and vehicles charging from one set of lights to another. There are usually literally dozens and dozens of cyclists at those set of lights each morning. "Safety in numbers?" Get to fuck Boris and ban HGV's from Central London

Too sad. Puts my moaning about being in work into perspective. Someone didn't make it to work this morning and won't be going home this evening. RIP cyclist.

Horrific!
Seems like it is one a week now in London :(
RIP

This is horrendous news. You can't help but wonder what it would be like to find out that it is one of your own loved ones who isn't coming hope.

Thoughts with the riders friends and family. Be strong.

Shit. R.I.P. rider

This isn't the place for a discussion. But yes, that is a dangerous spot. I go through every morning and it seems to be a major route for HGVs. ridiculous.

So sad.

Was just riding past this stretch of road yesterday and thinking about how much I hate it.

RIP rider

RIP.

Came out of Holborn tube just as the ambulance arrived. Horrific.

Such sad, sad news. Thoughts are with this poor rider's nearest and dearest.

I ride this junction every day (have no alternative) and it is horrible.

3 dead cyclists in 3 weeks, 2 under lorries. Words fail me.