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For whatever reason, the normally pro-petrol head, "cyclist wasn't wearing a helmet", "car left the road" Clarkson mouthpiece known as the BBC has come over all road safety conscious and is live blogging every road accident / incident / crash / collision in the London ambulance area.
You can follow the carnage here
"I'm looking at the traffic cam from the control room. In Chiswick, a man is down on his face, with a motorbike on its side. A biker is bending over him and talking to him. Meanwhile, traffic is continuing to drive past within inches of the man's head. Unreal. A lady comes over and is giving assistance. Someone has put a red coat over the man. But the cars still haven't stopped, driving by at a rate. A lorry roars by within feet of the man's head. The control room asks for urgent police assistance. Still watching on the screen, I see a paramedic arrive. She uses her car to block the road so she can safely kneel down by the patient, but the cars are still driving around them - they're not stopping."
"Carlton Reid on Bikebiz
writes: A BBC reporter said a cyclist who injured an ankle should have been wearing a helmet, although there was no information given on how a cyclist should wear a helmet just above the foot."
"Adrian Brown in the control room gives us an update on a call out to Wembley. Paramedics at the scene say that they have been told that a 16-year-old girl was crossing the road talking on a mobile, a cyclist gave way so that she could cross, but a van behind didn't give way, hit the bike and the bike hit the pedestrian. The girl was taken to Northwick Park Hospital. She did not have any physical injuries but had suffered shock."
" Meanwhile, traffic is continuing to drive past within inches of the man's head. Unreal."
This happened when I helped a cyclist who was hurled from her bike at Haymarket by a lemming pedestrian barging into the road. It was terrifying and I was very glad when a couple of traffic wardens came along and stood at my back to protect us.
but a van behind didn't give way, hit the bike and the bike hit the pedestrian
YES BUT WAS HE WEARING A HELMET?
Did you know...?
Rush Hour Danger has 8,242 pedestrians killed in 11 years
Twin Peaks has 1,575 cyclists killed in the same period
Yet the text says "Cyclists have a higher casualty rate than pedestrians."
Statistics are fun, aren't they?
Robert
To be fair there are a heck of a lot more pedestrians than cyclists.
"Reading this, you can see the amount of work these people pull off on any give day. You can also see how quickly they are able to respond to call outs. My thoughts are with those of us who don't live in London and don't have the access to such a quick response times. Maybe other counties should look on to here to see how it's done"
Eh? A 'London is the centre of the universe' post from someone who doesn't live there, tied in with a Daily Wail-esque Johnny Foreigner can't do this as well as we can type statement.
I wonder if ISP's should be mandated to provide some kind of IQ test before people are allowed to voice their opinion in public....
Like me... She said 'counties' rather than 'countries' - d'oh!
Still a mind numbingly stupid thing to say. I expect that London response times are much better than say Highlands and Islands purely from geography, that is a choice made when one lives out side of the city; Or something one lives with if they're born there... ;)
"BBC reporter Adrian Brown in the ambulance control room gives us a quick round-up: There's another lull. Post lunch, things have calmed down. Since midday, we have had six call outs. Two involving cyclists coming into contact with cars in Bethnal Green and Knightsbridge, two where motorbikes have crashed, one on the North Circular, the other in Dagenham, and a car that landed on top of a bollard and a three-car smash in east London."
"Marc Ashdown, BBC London News
tweets: Hats off to London's drivers. Not a sniff of an accident for an hour. But here comes the school run. #crash24"
Yes, well done, you haven't hit anyone or anything for an hour... Kind of smacks of a sign at a building site saying 'No serious accidents in 2 days'.
1649: Dom and Steve We've clocked up the miles today - 135 miles in nine hours. In that time we've attended six road accidents, only two of which resulted in people going to hospital - a cyclist and a pedestrian who both collided with cars.
<sigh>
Responded via the website to suggest that what was meant was that a driver drove into a pedestrian or cyclist. Otherwise seems odd that an ambulance would be required for someone walking into a car...
Robert
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