Green Park accident

[magnatom]

Ah – here it is:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTPSYbeNaa8

 

[shimano]

'I must admit Green Park wasn't one I'd heard of, unlike Regents Park or Hyde Park. I thought that might have been me being an ignoramus.'

Green Park? that's a cul-de-sac of about 2 dozen 'posh' houses half a mile from here... Used to deliver the local free sheet there and got moaned at for walking across the grass whilst their kids were playing on it!!!

 

[Maz]

Are you sure it wasn't Greenhead Park, Huddersfield?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Or Green Park (ex) railway station in Bath?

 

[Bollo]

I'm colourblind, so its just Grey Park as far as I'm concerned.

 

[liquidindian]

I'm from Scotland, but I can see the Reading Green Park from my office window and assumed he was talking about London. Am I supposed to be angry or not? Maybe someone can draw a diagram for me?

 

[Maz]

I'm from Scotland, but I can see the Reading Green Park from my office window and assumed he was talking about London. Am I supposed to be angry or not? Maybe someone can draw a diagram for me?

No. You are to be congratulated on your excellent eyesight.

 

[Tynan]

Scotland compared to London sums it up rather well

60M people in the UK?

15M in Greater London, never mind percentage of cyclists

and famous places

etc etc etc

you parochial bumpkin yokels

 

[BentMikey]

LMAO Tynan!

 

[Yellow Fang]

I'm from Scotland, but I can see the Reading Green Park from my office window and assumed he was talking about London. Am I supposed to be angry or not? Maybe someone can draw a diagram for me?

I'm sorry to hear that. If it gets too much for you, remember the Samaritans' phone line.

 

[liquidindian]

It's not so bad - mostly cycle paths to work, and a big huge windmill thing to be hypnotised by.

 

[litespeeder]

This could be yet another thread going towards a move to politics and life -me thinks......

 

[Rach E]

I was the person who was knocked off on Thursday.

I was cycling down the cycleway in Green Park (I normally cycle down the road on Constitution Hill, but the lights were "in my favour" - famous last words - to cycle in the park on that day). I was overtaking another cyclist towards the end of the cycle lane opposite Buckingham Palace, and he abruptly - and without checking behind or indicating - turned right in front of me and knocked me off my bike.

I don't remember much, but I was knocked on the floor and sustained a nasty head injury that meant I lost a lot of blood. I've fractured my cheekbone in three places, and am left with a nicely blued right-side of my face and stitches.

Apparently the cyclist stopped briefly, and then cycled off - leaving me on the floor. I was very grateful to the pedestrians who stopped to help.

 

[Maz]

That's very nasty. Get well soon, Rach. Any CCTV footage around there I wonder to help catch the person that did it? He might use that path regularly.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Crikey, sounds nasty. My comiserations, hope you get well soon. Cyclists like that give the rest of us a bad name.