15/6/2015 Tooting Broadway

Report of a cyclist involved in a crash with a lorry.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/tooting-crash-cyclist-rushed-to-hospital-after-crash-with-lorry-in-busy-high-street-10321481.html

https://twitter.com/TfLTrafficNews/status/610456526160023552

Pic of a nisa truck being involved. Still no news on how bad the cyclists injuries are.

http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/13333259.Lorry_and_cyclist_in_Tooting_Broadway_collision/

Stomach wrenching bike under wheels pic...

https://twitter.com/GracieH_/status/610471627319545856

One upside was that it was so close to one of the better hospitals. Healing thoughts to rider.

One upside was that it was so close to one of the better hospitals.

I was thinking of that, less than a minutes away from the ambulance.

Why can't the government do anything about it? it's extremely frustrating, hope the guy pull through.

Has anyone seen any news about if the guy is recovering/over the worst of it?

So far they're saying stable condition.

Unsurprisingly, driver is not arrested, despite the fact it's on a superhighway as clearly seen on the photo.

I'll repeat this here because it adds what I think it valuable context for the circumstances.

Current national policing practice is generally that if there isn't a clear and ongoing threat to public safety or an ongoing investigation and a person voluntarily presents or makes themselves available for interview by the police, an arrest is unlikely to be made because there is no need determined.

Whatever the circumstances of the incident and whoever was at fault, which is probably still being determined by the investigating officers, I doubt very much that the driver is either continuing to drive or posing a flight risk and may very well be fully cooperating with police enquiries. Not arresting the driver in these situations is a complete red herring in these situations because it is in no way indicative of any failing by the police in the process of their investigations. I'm pretty certain journalists chuck it in to articles either to pad a word count or because they think it implies something. It doesn't.

That whole junction in tooting is a clusterfuck, it's a danger for pedestrians let alone cyclists.