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- Coventry, uk
Whilst walking my dog yesterday, I went through a road underpass which has a shared pedestrian and cycle route to find someone lying on the ground moaning, getting closer I could see it was a young teenage boy with a smashed phone next to him, firstly I assumed that he had been mugged.
I stopped and asked if he was OK, he told me that a bike had come racing into the tunnel down the hill entrance, come around the bend really faced and ploughed into him. The cyclist went over his handlebars but managed to get up and ride off, leaving this kid in agony. There is no way of really knowing anymore which is the cycle path and which is the pedestrian side, the markings wore away years ago.
I helped the lad up and took him home to explain to his mum what had happened and that he was having difficulty breathing so with the nature of the crash he could have sustained some fractured ribs so she should take him to A&E. Whilst walking back he told me that just before I turned up that two other cyclists had cycled past him and just left him lying there on the floor, he thanked me for my help saying that if I hadn’t come past he might still be lying there.
What is this world coming to?
I stopped and asked if he was OK, he told me that a bike had come racing into the tunnel down the hill entrance, come around the bend really faced and ploughed into him. The cyclist went over his handlebars but managed to get up and ride off, leaving this kid in agony. There is no way of really knowing anymore which is the cycle path and which is the pedestrian side, the markings wore away years ago.
I helped the lad up and took him home to explain to his mum what had happened and that he was having difficulty breathing so with the nature of the crash he could have sustained some fractured ribs so she should take him to A&E. Whilst walking back he told me that just before I turned up that two other cyclists had cycled past him and just left him lying there on the floor, he thanked me for my help saying that if I hadn’t come past he might still be lying there.
What is this world coming to?