25/5/2017 - Crash in Hammersmith

Just for statistics and FYI.
I had a crash on my way to work to Victoria on Thursday morning. Likely for me, no serious injuries.
The crash, well, more a fall, happened at the intersection between King St and Hamlet Gardens.

A van, from the opposite direction, was turning into Hamlet Gardens, but there was a lorry in front of him doing some kind of manouvre, so he was turning very slowly. At first I thought he would stop, but instead he kept going at his slow pace and by the time his van was occupying the whole of my lane, I realised it would be best to stop (actually I panicked a bit picturing me crashing on the front of the van!), and that's what I did, just too strong and the bike ground to a halt, throwing me over the handlebars backpack and all right in front of him.
He stopped right away of course, and I hit head and shoulders first on the ground.

Have to thank the helmet, it took the grunt of the force of my whole weight and the fact that I started rolling on the ground instead of splashing down on it.

So no real concussion to the brain, no pain at all, no headache etc. Shoulder is ok, just stiff as the neck is and bruises on the hands only (and the rear of the shoulder), plus the bike glasses, pushed down by the helmet, dug a bit on the top side of the nose, but just skin and a thin layer of flesh has been cut and was the main source of the blood I saw flowing on the nose.

Driver stopped, a kind lady too and a cyclist. I was ok, no lost of consciousness, was not in pain etc.
But we still agreed to call an ambulance as I had hit the ground quite hard according to the lady.
Asked the cyclist to lock my bike and we waited for for the ambulance (25mins, but that's ok as we told them there was no seriousness to the accident), police also came, etc etc etc...

only thing is that I will go to the hospital 1st of June to have a look at one of the fingers (the ring finger of the hand slamming on the front brake lever) which might have s micro fracture in it.

I wasn't really going that fast, bike (the Somec), had no bag on it, so she was light, and I was wearing my new Chrome Industries backpack stuffed with things, which helped pushed me over the handlebars.

I was really actually surprised how easy (I weight 90kg + backpack!) I was pulled over!
And very lucky that I hit the ground rolling and nothing was 'pushed' on the wrong direction (which would have caused more damage).

So, keep an eye on that and be ready to move your body behind the saddle in these cases (which I was full aware of, but had no instinct of doing) which helps keeping you on the ground.
Also I'd give advice to have your brakes set up on a more modular braking mode, thus reducing the chances of the bike coming to a sudden stop!

Glad you're not too badly hurt, A.

Heal up soon. Sorry to hear this

Hey mate, glad to hear it wasn't too serious.

I've been very lucky and the helmet this its fucking job!