My week of witnessing accidents continues,
just leaving work last night and spot someone jumping a red light at what looked like 30odd mph and almost completely smashed into a van of the company I work for. I made my way over as wasn't sure if anyone else had stopped/was hit, saw the driver of the car that jumped the red light, asked if he was ok, to which I got a reply that he had hit a cyclist. Went over a bit further and it was a guy I work with. I was instantly on to the police, and started taking details, somehow my mate was alright, his bike had a buckled and cracked rear wheel, frame was fine as was the tyre which didn't even puncture but he had no scratches on him or his clothes whatsoever.
The driver was very apologetic but was then in no fit state to drive home, which was a good 120 miles away, I had to move his car out of the carriageway as he was too shake. He admitted at the scene he was looking at his sat nav, but for my mate to get to where he was hit he must have jumped the lights by a good 3 or 4 seconds after they went red.
Police didn't come out as an ambulance wasn't called, friends a bit bruised and stiff today but no worse somehow. Scarily we were talking on the way out of the building about him getting a new helmet as his current one is uncomfortable and thus he isn't wearing it currently! seeing what I saw he was bloody lucky to walk away, it could have been horrendous if the car had properly clipped his bike! but looking at the damage of the car (barely a scratch on the front bumper) and the bike he must have barely touched the backwheel but due to the speed caused the damage.
