Cyclist almost killed by falling tree during storm

[Cycling Dan]

He is one lucky guy.

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He got lucky. only got injured. A woman (tourist) was killed in this same street

News item:
Amsterdam’s fire brigade recommended people stay indoors after one
woman died and another person was injured when a tree blew down on the
city’s central Herengracht.

Reports that a second person had
been killed when a tree hit his car were later retracted. The driver has
been taken to hospital and is seriously injured.
One person was also hospitalised in The Hague, after being hit by a falling branch, news agency ANP said.

Amsterdam’s Vondelpark was closed because of the risk of falling
trees and branches. People in Groningen were also advised to remain
indoors.

 

[Boris Bajic]

I keep telling people that Amsterdam's a dangerous place to cycle.

Do they listen?

Apologies to all who are offended by my comment and think it in poor taste as a pedestrian was killed on the same street. They are right to think that.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Where's the numpty with a cyclecam when you want one.

Alan...

 

[Cycling Dan]

He was injured by a falling tree and you consider that lucky?

Yer, he could be dead!!!!! I thought the tree had him. Unless escaping near death from a tree is now considered unlucky.

 

[Cycling Dan]

I would consider needing to escape near death by falling tree to be unlucky

You need to stop looking in the negative.

 

[glenn forger]

The tourist was killed by that tree?

ETA, it looks like it:

http://news.yahoo.com/severe-storm-kills-woman-netherlands-123432005.html

 

[Cycling Dan]

The tourist was killed by that tree?

ETA, it looks like it:

http://news.yahoo.com/severe-storm-kills-woman-netherlands-123432005.html

Not the same location. Image from http://www.timesofoman.com/News/Article-24668.aspx

 

[glenn forger]

So it seems:

Winds of up to 151 km/h were recorded on Monday morning, causing trees and lorries to blow over and bringing sections of the rail network to a standstill.

One person is confirmed to have died, a woman who was struck by a tree on Herengracht in Amsterdam.

http://www.amsterdamherald.com/

 

[glenn forger]

Not the same location. Image from http://www.timesofoman.com/News/Article-24668.aspx

You're right, two trees fell on Herengracht:

Journalist Mark Hammer witnessed the incident on Herengracht and told Radio 1 that one minute the paramedics were working hard to revive her, and the next minute they covered her with a white sheet. “The person who was standing with her was crying very hard,” he said.

http://www.nltimes.nl/2013/10/28/falling-trees-kill-2-in-amsterdam/

My God, that poor man saw her die.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

The only cyclist in Amsterdam to be wearing hi-vis and a tree falls on him!

 

[Cycling Dan]

The only cyclist in Amsterdam to be wearing hi-vis and a tree falls on him!

SMIDGAF

 

[Panter]

As title!

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[Paulus]

Whoever it was had a bit of a lucky escape there.

 

[postman]

I was only thinking last night ,my post about feeling robbed because no trees had fallen or no biblical floods here in Meanwood,it was actually not such a bad day.Was in bad taste,considering the deaths i later read about.So i apologize to all.