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Witnesses sought to fatal November 2016 Chelsea Embankment collision

Metropolitan Police issue appeal after 80-year-old pedestrian dies five months after collision with cyclist
by Simon_MacMichael
Wed, May 10, 2017 12:40
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Police are appealing for witnesses to a November 2016 collision between a pedestrian and cyclist on the Chelsea Embankment to come forward after an 80-year-old man died last month from the injuries he sustained in the incident.

Officers say that the collision happened on the carriageway at the junction of Chelsea Embankment and Chelsea Bridge Road at around 6pm on the evening of 10 November.

The pedestrian was taken to a hospital in south London where he remained in a critical condition before passing away on 5 April.

He lived alone in Kennington and police are still trying to trace his next of kin.

In the meantime, a coroner’s inquest has been opened and adjourned.

The male cyclist involved in the collision stopped at the scene and is said to be helping police with their enquiries.

Police have asked anyone who witnessed the collision or the events that led up to it to contact the Serious Collision Investigation Unit on 020 8543 5157 or via Twitter.

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Simon MacMichael

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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Rapha Nadal | 6 years ago
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Oh, well at least The Met are stepping up and investigating this.  5 months after and only since a person has sadly passed away as a result...

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BehindTheBikesheds | 6 years ago
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RIP to the old boy.

This just goes to show how the police are simply not addressing matters as they should.

As there was an incident (and quite serious at that) why did the police not gather evidence/witnesses at the time? this all rather seems like after the horse has bolted and my concern is that what was not considered to be an offence by the person riding a bike (otherwise they'd have being done already) is going to turn into a witch-hunt because an elderly person has died.

The person involved is now not only going to be feeling horrendous about the person dying but going to be shitting themselves that someone 5 months later state he was at fault when at the time and according to the police he wasn't.

 

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brooksby | 6 years ago
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Are cyclists able to say "He just came out of nowhere" or "The sun was in my eyes", or is that just motorists?

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Ush replied to brooksby | 6 years ago
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brooksby wrote:

Are cyclists able to say "He just came out of nowhere" or "The sun was in my eyes", or is that just motorists?

 

I get your point, but it seems a bit harsh in the context.  I recognize that the usual callous, motorists would be  making such points on a cyclist's death, but it would be nice to rise above that.   If I've learnt anything from such b.t.l. comments it is that I don't want to be such a person.

Also, in this case, unlike many of the motoring cases it's worth noting that the cyclist stopped voluntarily instead of fleeing the scene and lying about it.  I hope s/he was not seriously hurt during the collision, which is always a serious consideration for us, again unlike motorists.

R.I.P. 

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brooksby replied to Ush | 6 years ago
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Ush wrote:

brooksby wrote:

Are cyclists able to say "He just came out of nowhere" or "The sun was in my eyes", or is that just motorists?

 

I get your point, but it seems a bit harsh in the context.  I recognize that the usual callous, motorists would be  making such points on a cyclist's death, but it would be nice to rise above that.   If I've learnt anything from such b.t.l. comments it is that I don't want to be such a person.

Also, in this case, unlike many of the motoring cases it's worth noting that the cyclist stopped voluntarily instead of fleeing the scene and lying about it.  I hope s/he was not seriously hurt during the collision, which is always a serious consideration for us, again unlike motorists.

R.I.P. 

I know, and no offence was intended.  It just seems like if this had been a motorist, those would almost certainly have been the first words out of their mouth (Helen Measures, Gail Purcell, etc, etc) or the defence offered by the press.

I wonder what happened, noting that the cyclist stopped at the scene, the pedestrian went to hospital but that they only died nearly six months later.

Awful (and very rare) incident.

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PaulBox | 6 years ago
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Very sad to hear, RIP.

Out of interest, is it normal for the police to only ask for witnesses after somebody dies? I would have expected that if they suspected the cyclist to be in the wrong, they would have asked for witnesses as soon as possible after the incident. Or maybe they did and this is just a follow-up.

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