Serious Bike Down Vauxhall Cross

raymondo60

A Cycle Courier, one of Pink's, in serious accident involving an articulated truck at Vauxhall Cross/Albert Embankment

At time of writing don't know what happened or how. The whole area was cordoned off as many of you may be aware. Cyclist, a very experienced guy, has 'serious but not life-threatening' injuries - hopefully we'll know more later.

Phew - heavy day! Be careful out there......

Koncordski

Duplicate thread dude.

http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... t=12802538

Torvid

I think someone posted a link to a news piece on it to?

Edit: found it

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/ ... d-lorry.do

jonginge

Cheers, Raymondo. Hope your guy makes a good recovery. Best wishes.

raymondo60

Sorry for the duplicate thread guys - I did look but not hard enough obviously - we had a motorcyclist badly injured last night too, up in Colchester, so we're feeling a bit down at Pink today..............

Gussio

Hope that both of your guys make full recoveries.

Torvid

Sorry to hear that

hope your guys make full and quick recoveries.

Pufftmw

Best wishes to both lads from all at eCourier

raymondo60

Thanks to all so far for your best wishes

mybreakfastconsisted

That Standard report is a bit premature, maybe wait for an investigation before apportioning blame?

MonkeyMonster

Hey Ray, any news on your chaps? Fingers crossed for speedy recovery here.

Mr Plum

MonkeyMonster wrote:

Hey Ray, any news on your chaps? Fingers crossed for speedy recovery here.

http://www.lfgss.com/thread72681-2.html

Post 71 gives some good news on the Vauxhall Cross guy. Hope there's similar news re: the Colchester motorcyclist.

Wishing both a quick recovery, as well as the guy hit by the bus outside the Waldorf.

raymondo60

Really chuffed with the interest and kind words about our guys - thank you all. Motorcyclist in Colchester is back home nursing a broken wrist - we hope he'll come back when ready. The cyclist had 7 hours of surgery yesterday - broken pelvis, other leg fractures - looks like he'll be out for a while but he did call his control this morning and said 'I'll be back' - what a guy! His name is Richard. I'm thinking of starting a little collection/fund for him to help him through - more info on that later maybe. These incidents do highlight the dangers of two wheels on the road, especially couriers who are out there for 8-10 hours a day. May we wish you all safe journeys.

cjcp

Good news. Just found out we use Pink's at our place.