[bikeqld] Fwd: [NewMobilityCafe] London Mayor Nearly Killed While Cycling

[Michael Yeates]

Hi ...

Not sure there is a useful message in the following ... except 
perhaps that drivers should ensure their doors are properly shut and 
owners that their equipment is safe ...!

Its hardly an "accident" ... especially given it was a rather narrow 
street ...!

In Brisbane it would be unlikely the CCTV footage would have been 
released ... but then it seems it would also be unlikely the Lord 
Mayor would be cycling to check out the roads.

MY....................

Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 11:10:08 +0530

On Friday morning, while scouting possible locations for a bike path, 
London's mayor, Boris Johnson, narrowly avoided being killed when a 
passing truck crashed into a parked car and knocked it across the 
road he was cycling on, missing him by only a few feet.

As a report in The Wharf, a newspaper that covers the London 
neighborhood of Canary Wharf where Mr. Johnson and his small pack of 
cyclists were riding at the time of the accident, noted: "The entire 
incident was captured on a private security camera monitoring the 
Dunbar Wharf development on Narrow Street." Here is the security 
camera footage, which shows the accident, and Mr. Johnson emerging 
from behind the truck about 30 seconds later, holding his helmet in 
one hand as he inspects the damage:

Continues:

<http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/london-mayor-nearly-killed-while-cycling/?hp>http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/london-mayor-nearly-killed-while-cycling/?hp

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