Bad, bad accident in Westminster

[Pete.]

I passed the scene this morning. Right at the lights opposite Big Ben a bike was completely under the front of a lorry, all I could see was the top-box. Loads of police and paramedics on hand and they looked to be working on the guy in the road. Hope he survives, doesn't look good at all
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Doovy]

Oh sheet

That would explain the massive tailback standstill traffic to the Blackfriars tunnel.

I fought my way through on my CBR running into overheating temps, and turned right up to Trafalgar Square (my usual route) which is actually where the police were directing traffic anyway as they'd blocked the rest of the embankment up to Parliament.

Not good! Must have been between 8:15 - 8:30am?
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[natefz6]

That would have been on my way in a few weeks ago. Hope they are OK
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[Pete.]

Think it happened just before 8. Still closed off now
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Doovy]

Faaak.


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[TheArchitect]

that's pretty fooked up. hope the rider is OK.
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[c_dug]

I was wondering why it was closed off, still all closed up at around 10am.
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[c_dug]

The way it is under the front like that I'm guessing the biker (scooterist?) probably tried to tuck around the front of the truck as the lights changed or something.

Speeds are never very high at that junction so I doubt it was much of an impact.
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[Rogerborg]

[Pete.]

Don't think the guy made it
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[chris-red]

[lihp]

[c_dug]

[Doovy]

[_Iain_]

[c_dug]

On the phone is one thing, I've used my scala and my standard phone headset multiple times.

The numpties I'm on about are doing something that requires looking at the screen, while moving along, generally about 4 feet behind something big and hard like a bus.

I must see at least one a week that fits that precise description.
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[Pete.]

Another bad accident on the way home tonight. A2 is still closed London-bound at the M25, I had to wait at the front coastbound coz they shut the road both ways whilst the air ambulance lifted a rider off the carriageway. Looks like it was a green zx10r or similar.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Val]

[Pete.]

Nothing in the news I can find but someone on site said he didn't make it.

The way that scooter is under the lorry, and knowing the junction, I think it's very possible he got in front of the truck by filtering right to the front up the left turn lane which is often empty then squeezing past the island and cutting across in front to wait for the light (or the lights changed as he got there). Either way it would be very easy to get there unseen by the lorry driver via his blind spot.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Rogerborg]

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I know it's a sweeping generalisation, but it's more often than not that it's a scooterist doing a filtering move that makes me cringe.

It's as though because they can manoeuvre into places a bigger bike might not be able to they'll just go for it, with no consideration to the position they are placing themselves in relation to much bugger road users, such as lorries, who have restricted vision in their mirrors.

[barrkel]

I wonder if he stayed close to the lorry to avoid impinging on the cyclist box as a result of the recent enforcement of it (verbal enforcement, at least), instead of going up to the advanced stop line and being visible to the lorry driver.
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

Is there really a blindspot that big *in front* of a lorry that's so deep into London? I can't quite believe a bike can't be seen from the cab, if it's close in front. I get that they're high, but so much that the downward blind spot angle hides a bike?
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[Pete.]

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