There's been a serious accident on the high street at the junction of the VW and pet shop.
I saw a wrecked bicycle and some clothes on the tarmac. I don't know the extent of any injury because only the police was around there when I walked past.
The high street was closed approx from Santander down to Kent House road.
Since you've mentioned Twitter, HB, I'd like to say thank you to BBC Travel alerts (@bbctravelalert). A quick glance at their feed before I left the house and I knew to avoid Sydenham Road this morning. Their real time information is really invaluable.
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EDIT: I really, really hope Twitter story is wrong. Otherwise unforgiveable. Here's the Twitter pic with the car apparently on the wrong side of the road:
according to the twitter account linked, a woman was doing her make up whilst driving, hit the cyclist, and then legged it - leaving her car door open.
from that and the pic, I assume she was turning right into Mayow Road, maybe she was jumping the red light, or the cyclist might have been, presumably she didn't see him, and on collision she paniced and ran, and didn't help the injured cyclist. the fact that she ran, might indicate that it was her fault not the cyclist, but that is conjecture.
this accident would explain the more than normal amount of traffic backed up along Silverdale and Bishopsthorp, where there were people doing stupid things like driving on the wrong side of the road to avoid queing traffic, and trying to overtake queing traffic, maybe without realising that there was a queue.
I'm sorry, let me get this right. She was doing her makeup while making the right hand turn into Mayow Road? I know there are some INCREDIBLY stupid people in the world, but surely no one does that. Surely? I'm not even sure it's possible - wouldn't you need two hands to make that turn? A half-turn of the wheel with one hand wouldn't be tight enough. Unless, of course, you were turning into the wrong side of the road...
just reporting that I'd seen on that twitter feed - they said that she legged it, and that she'd been aprehended quite soon afterwards. Police person told the twitter chap that she'd been doing her make-up.
of course News Shopper might not be accurate either...
Trouble is we don't know whether the Twitter source heard it first hand or second hand.In these fraught situations there is always a bit of confusion as the message is relayed:
Send reinforcements. We are going to advance.
Send three and fourpence. We are going to a dance.
I'll let things settle then I'll enquire whether anybody has been charged with anything.
