http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: Murrayfield - Recent Topics en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:19:28 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6508#post-69818 Thu, 10 May 2012 10:20:01 +0000 spytfyre 69818@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hopefully when (ADMIN EDIT name removed for privacy - just in case he prefers that) gets out of hospital he reads this and can send me a PM to get the bike unlocked. It's not badly damaged, the seat was twisted and the front mud guard arms had come loose but otherwise I think it faired better than the rider.</p> <p>On my merry (wet) way to the water of leith I could see hazard lights and some people on the road. I carried on to see if I could put my new first aid to use.</p> <p>Car had pulled out of junction and he'd gone over bonnet and landed on right side. Guessing she had pulled out of Murrayfield Ave in a hurry probably turning right as you don't get many gaps...</p> <p>Driver and witnesses had already stopped. Taxis and cars beeping and squeezing past (2 feet away from my shoulder as I knelt beside him) - idiots.</p> <p>Thankfully he was awake and nothing obviously broken or bleeding. There was a qualified nurse there so I didn't have ot take charge, a doctor appeared too but had to get away to surgery(!)<br /> Local laundrette and passers by provided towels and even better a picnic blanket with a waterproof backing to cover him with.</p> <p>While holding his neck we were talking to him about where he was on his way to. Work, Dundee St, <strong>he works in traffic management planning</strong><br /> I joked that this junction needs some work then - he said it was already on the list (hopefully it'll get bumped up the list now that one of their own was knocked off)<br /> I mentioned I worked in Heriot-Watt Union with a guy who did that... he said "That would be me"<br /> What a way to meet someone you knew from the past. Kneeling in the road holding his neck still.</p> <p>Ambulance arrived pretty quickly, got his neck in a brace after snipping his snood in half, he joked he needed a new one anyway.<br /> I spied his bike and asked if he needed it chained up, he doesn't have a chain so I used mine hence hoping he can get in touch, failing that I will try to track down his office and take it there but I reckon it will be a few weeks before he needs it again. No serious damage either just the twisted saddle and the loose mud guard like I said</p> <p>Hope you recover quick (ADMIN EDIT name removed for privacy - just in case he prefers that) and get in touch. We can meet up in the Roseburn for a pint before walking to the bike </p>