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walkercp · June 2007

On my way home last night was going through Deptford, passed a series of cars only for someone turning right, straight accross me to knock me off. Now I know there was at least 4 cyclist behind me as I'd passed them all, do you think any of them stopped to ask if I was ok? not a single fr!ggin one of them. So if your in South east London, North Kent way and you've had a fellow cyclist ask if your ok because your on foot, Thats me, I'm not stopping for Ar$ehole$ no more. [:(!]

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Mister Paul · June 2007

Did any of the drivers stop?

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domtyler · June 2007

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spasypaddy · June 2007

when i had my accident the opposite happened, about 6 people stopped to help (no cyclists as none went past)

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walkercp · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Mister Paul

Did any of the drivers stop?

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The driver stopped, but only the passenger got out.

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walkercp · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by domtyler

Welcome to the UK.

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I've not lived anywhere else

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el_presidente · June 2007

Sorry to the bloke with the mechanical on Regents Park last night by the business school, I really wanted to stop to help but I was super late for an appointment.

When I got there the appointment had been cancelled though so that shows me.

mazcp · June 2007

@walker - "you passed them all"...hmmm, was this a commuter race? No wonder they didn't stop for you.

Hope you're OK (I would've stopped, honest).

walkercp · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by maz

@walker - "you passed them all"...hmmm, was this a commuter race? No wonder they didn't stop for you.

Hope you're OK (I would've stopped, honest).
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I wasn't racing against them, But they might of against me

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comsense · June 2007

Years ago, I was commuting to work.I was hit by a stolen car driving at speed along the hard margin. What sticks in my mind was the traffic just driving merrily along and the faces looking out the car windows at me and the smashed bike on the roadside. I was angrier at them than I was at the scum that knocked me down.

Unknown · June 2007

I got knocked down on Old Street roundabout many years back. The car carried on up City Road leaving me sprawled on the deck, blood running down my arm. The following car hooted at me. Nobody stopped.

BlackandBlue · June 2007

I once came a cropper on my way to work. Three cyclists stopped and a lady got out of her car in the rain holding up traffic behind her. All because I had hit a pothole obscured by a dirty puddle (into which I landed and inadvertently drank from).

I have also been knocked off on a roundabout and had cars steer round me as I lay spreadeagled on the ground.

Maybe people stop more readily if there's no-one else involved?

firsthippy · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by BlackandBlue
I have also been knocked off on a roundabout and had cars steer round me as I lay spreadeagled on the ground.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

You should be thankful they drove around you..

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dsoutar · June 2007

I hope they all get squished by a skip lorry. I can't imagine cycling past someone who'd got punted off. Not even an RLJ. Unfortunately it's a very sad indictment of the state of society (or at least society in London).

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Roastie · June 2007

That's kak walker.

1) The other day I got a puncture about 200m from home. I decided to rather just carry it home on my shoulder than fix it on the pavement. About 6 guys rode past, not one even slowed to ask if I needed help.

2) About 2 months back I was in a hurry and I whizzed past a dude with a mechanical. I didn't stop because I was in a hurry to get to the station to get my train. 100m later I got a puncture - the same dude rode past me and offered help. I felt so small and stupid. Karma is a b@stard.

I should just add that usually I do stop to offer help, and if someone had come off, I'd stop, irrespective.

ColinJ · June 2007

Unfortunately, it's not just London... This heart-warming story in my local paper last year really made me feel proud to be part of modern Britain [:(!]!

A Miss is as good as a mile, especially if she cycles...

walkercp · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by ColinJ

Unfortunately, it's not just London... This heart-warming story in my local paper last year really made me feel proud to be part of modern Britain [:(!]!

A Miss is as good as a mile, especially if she cycles...
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thats really sad, [:(]

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chewa · June 2007

I came off my bike on ice. Landed in the middle of the road and couldn't easily get up (clipped in and trapped ). No-one stopped to help. Cars stopped, but just to wait for a clear bit to go past me.

However, to counter that, when I got whacked by a Transit when on my motorbike, as I came round from the morphine induced unconsciousness (while they tried to straighten my leg so they could get me on a stretcher)there were six other motorbikes parked up at the side of the road - all of the riders enquiring after my health.

Gave me a warm fuzzy feeling (but that could have been the morphine [:)])

plus je vois les hommes, plus j'admire les chiens

thedoctor · June 2007

There's been a shedload of research done on this - google 'bystander intervention'. Basically, if there's only a few people around one of them will help. If there's lots of people everyone will assume someone else will help, so no-one actually ends up helping.
I can report from bitter experience that if you dislocate your shoulder upstairs, and your partner is downstairs watching Cybermen and Daleks having a barney, you won't be heard however loudly you yell!

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