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Motorists "drove around" seriously injured cyclist when nobody stopped to help after collision at notorious roundabout

Witnesses said several drivers, including the one involved, carried on with their journeys before eventually a man stopped to help the injured rider

A cyclist who suffered a broken jaw and other facial injuries in a collision at a "nightmarish" roundabout in Hull had other drivers passing around him when nobody stopped to help as he lay injured in the road.

Humberside Police said the cyclist sustained "serious injuries" — later reported by the rider's wife as a broken jaw which requires surgery and other facial injuries — when he was "hit" just before 7am on Tuesday 7 March.

The police report suggests the cyclist had braked "suddenly to avoid what is described as a black SUV-style vehicle at around 6.50am" although the cyclist's wife says he "was hit by a car" they believe to be "silver", adding that a darker car — believed to belong to the passer by who stopped to help — was also seen at the roundabout linking Church Street, Robson Way, Wawne Road and Leads Road in Hull.

Picking up on one of the more shocking aspects of the incident, Humberside Live published reports from witnesses that the rider was lying in the road "for some time" with motorists "driving around" him before finally a man stopped to help.

"Can't believe no one stopped. Just drove off," one local commented, to which another replied: "A gentleman did stop eventually after noticing people were just driving around him."

Writing on Facebook, the cyclist's wife said they "had a witness come forward" and appealed to the driver and "gentleman who phoned the ambulance" to come forward too.

"The collision took place on the little roundabout at the bottom of Wawne Road, my husband was heading towards Sutton village from Wawne Road and the car came from Robson Way," she explained. 

"We believe the driver had a silver car but there was also a darker car who we believed was the gentleman who phoned the ambulance... he left when his dad arrived but left no details.

"My husband sustained a broken jaw which he needed surgery to fix, damage to his ear and is currently very sore and bruised."

road.cc has contacted Humberside Police for further information, the force has asked anyone who witnessed the incident, or who has dashcam footage of the area around the time of the collision, to contact them on 101, quoting log 263 of 7 March.

Dan joined road.cc in 2020, and spent most of his first year (hopefully) keeping you entertained on the live blog. At the start of 2022 he took on the role of news editor. Before joining road.cc, Dan wrote about various sports, including football and boxing for the Daily Express, and covered the weird and wonderful world of non-league football for The Non-League Paper. Part of the generation inspired by the 2012 Olympics, Dan has been 'enjoying' life on two wheels ever since and spends his weekends making bonk-induced trips to the petrol stations of the south of England.

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IanGlasgow | 1 year ago
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I crashed my bike about 3 years ago. Landed on my face and smashed up 4 teeth. As I was standing up rather dazed and slowyl realizing I was bleeding from my chin and mouth and that several teeth were gone a car stopped, the window went down and the passenger asked if I was Ok. "No, I don't think I am" I repled. They drove off. Luckily some pedstrians came by a few minutes later.
I did wonder if I'd remembered this incorrectly or imagined it, but when I checked my camera later I found it was exactly as I'd remembered it.

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Owd Big 'Ead | 1 year ago
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Happened to me in Nottingham city centre a couple of decades ago, filtering through traffic on a route I cycled half a dozen times a day so I knew exactly when the traffic lights would change, so could crank on the power to give me a fighting chance of clearing the next set of lights a 100 metres down the road allowing me a succession of green lights for the next mile or so.

To my horror the passenger in the very front car in the queue flung their door open right in front of me sending both myself and my bike cartwheeling through the air resulting in the obligatory broken collar-bone, broken leg and a dislocated ankle.

Not one person stopped, certainly not the driver of the car I clattered, nor any of the cars behind, or any of the people waiting at the adjacent bus stops lining the road. Every one just looked away, or pretended I just wasn't there at all as the inched forward in the evening rush hour.

Even to this day I think they are all a bunch of *****!!

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Rik Mayals unde... | 1 year ago
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My mate who used to be our local bobby told me a story once about a bloke who was cycling home from work one night on our local country lane. A vehicle blinded him as they didn't bother to knock off their main beam. Bloke rode into the ditch, vehicle slams on and reverses back. As he's lying in the ditch, dazed and with a broken collarbone, someone glances into the ditch at him, picks up his bike and chucks it in the van and speeds off, leaving said bloke lying in the ditch. 

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grOg replied to Rik Mayals underpants | 1 year ago
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That's the most pikey story I've heard in a long time..

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joe9090 | 1 year ago
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I had a motorbike crash into a limo on serpentine way in Hyde Park many moons ago. The first person to come over and help me said they were a medical professional and incorrectly insinuated I was at fault for the accident. She left her business card with me. When I looked at it, it said Homeopathic Specialist. Jesus wept...

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Adam Sutton | 1 year ago
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This a is a general issue in society rather than specific to the victim being a cyclist.

We got a dashcam for the car after my husband was hit by someone pulling into a roundabout without paying attention. No one stopped.

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VIPcyclist | 1 year ago
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Both sides of the coin for me. Knocked off bike and a doctor and nurse stopped, although some people were commenting on Facebook that they were happy a cyclist had been injured. On another occasion I came off my motorbike, the side stand switch failed and the engine stopped, and some work colleagues drove past whilst I was stood at the side of the road, it was the - 20c winter around 2010,s . When I mentioned it to them they said they thought it was me. There was me thinking I thought we got on!

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essexian | 1 year ago
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No one is going to believe this…. Honestly I don’t know why I am posting but….

Tuesday 31st March 2015, and I had popped out for a quick ride over lunchtime and returning home along Marston Road in Stafford when I got distracted and hit the kerb resulting in a rather excellent dismount over the bars, landing rather nicely on my left shoulder.

Laying there in pain on the pavement, a car stopped to help…. A BMW. I suffered a broken crank and a buggered shoulder. They bundled my bike into the back of the car and drove me home, despite the fact that they were going the other way.

And then on the 12th Feb this year, I was knocked off my bike by another cyclist as I entered Penkridge station car park. Two car drivers came over to help me up: at 61 you don’t bounce so well. It was nice of them to help and no, I was not blocking the road! 

So, there are some nice people out there. For the others, we need a “Good Sarmatians” law which says you must offer assistance unless it is unsafe for you to do so. And anyone who stops to take a photo for Facebook or whatever, rather than helping, should be shot….. is that too harsh?

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kil0ran | 1 year ago
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Ah, another triumph of crap road design. There shouldn't be a need for a roundabout there, and it's too small, which creates stalemates/confusion. Also my boy racer head from 20 years ago looks at that and just thinks "I can straight line that with a bit of kerb hopping and oppo" -  many drivers will just drive over the lower outer section. At speed. Thinking they're in the BTCC at Thruxton.

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kil0ran replied to kil0ran | 1 year ago
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Ah, it gets worse - look at the state of the sight lines approaching it from Church Street. Should be offset or be traffic light controlled. 

 

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chrisonabike replied to kil0ran | 1 year ago
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Someone needs to go back in time and tell them not to put that house there. I mean, couldn't they show a little clairvoyance and think of the drivers-to-come? #defundthealdermen

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perce replied to chrisonabike | 1 year ago
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OK then I'll do it. I'm so fast on my bike I can travel back in time. My friend has a summer bike with special wheels, a Fanzia Panzia custom special and I leave him for dead. He always asks me how I do it cos I'm that good. I've got some special wheels that haven't been invented yet so I should be ok. I'm just going to wait until it's a bit less windy.

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chrisonabike replied to perce | 1 year ago
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Thanks! On your way back would you mind popping round mine last year and telling me not to lock my new bike in the communal bike shed as it'll get nicked? If it's not out of your way? I can offer you a dram, I hadn't finished the whisky then.

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perce replied to chrisonabike | 1 year ago
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No problem. My wife has just given me a shopping list - can you believe that? Even when I go time travelling I end up having to go shopping. Now I've got to try and find my cheque book, god knows where it is. And I don't fancy trawling the shelves at Fine Fare. Talking of whisky, I'll try and get a bottle of Old Grandad - can't seem to get it these days. There used to be a great shop on Old Compton Street that sold hard to get whiskies but I don't know if it's there any more.

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mark1a replied to perce | 1 year ago
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What's the weather like at RideLondon this year?

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perce replied to mark1a | 1 year ago
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I'll try and find out. Another thing to add to the list - I'm going to be a bit busy.

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belugabob | 1 year ago
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It's not just cyclists, though - I was driving along behind another car, when it was run into by a car coming the other way.
The resulting wreckage blocked the road entirely, so nobody could drive around it.
Strangely, nobody tried to turn around, to go a different way, either.
The lady from the car in front of me had managed to get out of her car, and sat down on the road, leaning against her car. After I'd checked that she was reasonably OK, I went to check on the young woman who was driving the other car - she was bleeding from head wounds, but was trapped by the steering wheel, so couldn't get out.
In the few minutes that it took for the police to arrive (luckily, their motorway depot was about a mile away) not a single other person budged from their cars.
When the police arrived, they asked for witness statements from me and the occupants of the first few cars in either direction.
The most astonishing fact was that the woman closest to (and in clear view of) the trapped driver, was a nurse.
Even now, several years later, it really annoys me.

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alansmurphy | 1 year ago
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Charlotte would have stopped but the eye lashes on her Fiat 500 needed replacing

 

John slowed long enough to take a photo and upload to Facebook

 

Dave was late for work

 

Maxine was about to level up on Candy Crush

 

Paul thought someone else would probably help

 

Jennie thought, bloody cyclists can't even stay upright

 

The driver that hit them was worried they may get some advice from the Police

 

The insignificant victim requiring help and latterly surgery was ignored because of the mode of transport they had chosen...

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hutchdaddy | 1 year ago
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This certainly is not unusual behaviour just watch any of the countless videos of crashes on YouTube and in nearly all cases the driver with the dash cam just drives on. The only exceptions appears to be when there is some sort of illegal petrolheads streetcar meet. In these events everyone swarms around the unfortunate twat that was trying too hard to impress and ended up smashing their car. Makes me weep (with joy) every time.

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Mungecrundle | 1 year ago
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I was in collision with a wayward driver some time back who failed to give way when joining a roundabout. No real damage done, no injury, but I do recall that although he stopped to apologise and check I was OK, other drivers just went round, driving over my spectacles, and duffel bag without any apparent concern.

However I don't think this is abnormal human behaviour not to want to get involved, or assuming that someone better qualified will deal with it. There are many incidents of people collapsing in the street and others just stepping over them. When I were a lad, a girl in my schoolyear died on a busy railway platform from an asthma attack. Apparently no-one came to her aid for at least 5 minutes after she collapsed.

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Jimmy Ray Will | 1 year ago
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This happened to my other half. Casual rider, so not a lycra lout, riding back from a BBQ. Fell off at ~9.45pm, but was only 'discovered' by a pizza delivery guy at around 11.30pm, sat on the kerb of the road, in the pouring rain, with obvious head injuries. 

I wonder just how many people drove by her that night!

More amusingly, I once had a 'no harm done' crash into a ditch when i was a young gun. Overcooked a corner, went straight on and ended up lying in a ditch. Although uninjured my position meant I was struggling to get up. I felt relieved when a car stopped and someone came over to 'help'. Alas the help was actually the person asking for directions as they were lost. Lolz....

And finally, on the flip side, had a stupid, slow speed crash on ice a couple of months back. Really hurt my knee and managed to mangle far too much of my bike for a slow fall. Anyway, I was incredulously angry about the whole situation, when two lovely ladies came over to help me. I have never struggled so much to maintain my composure... never has a man ever wanted to be left alone as much as I did in that moment!

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kil0ran | 1 year ago
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Same happened to my partner when she crashed on ice on the school run. A dozen or so drivers drove around her and the bike until someone blocked the road to protect her. Naturally the drivists (who were all heading to school same as she was) then drove on the pavement to get by. Bearing in mind it was a small infants school pretty much everyone would have known her. Just seen as a cyclist/obstruction, not the Mum of little Jonny's friend. When I picked my son up in the afternoon there was much grumbling about having been late for school because of a cyclist crashing.

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Bucks Cycle Cammer | 1 year ago
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On the flip side, last spring I took a tumble after my wheels slipped out from under me on a roundabout. Multiple motorists stopped to check if I was OK, even though I was back on my feet within seconds with nothing more than a few clothing rips, a couple of scrapes, and a bruised ego.

A reminder that the majority of humans do actually display humanity.

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the little onion | 1 year ago
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I've been in this situation - took a tumble on an oil slick, lying bleeding and battered on a roundabout. Drivers carefully and slowly driving around me, but NOT ONE stopped to check if I was OK. Eventually crawled to the kerb after a minute and a good half-dozen cars had passed by.

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JustTryingToGet... replied to the little onion | 1 year ago
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the little onion wrote:

I've been in this situation - took a tumble on an oil slick, lying bleeding and battered on a roundabout. Drivers carefully and slowly driving around me, but NOT ONE stopped to check if I was OK. Eventually crawled to the kerb after a minute and a good half-dozen cars had passed by.

Absolute scum. Both in your instance and the one in the report.

How can anyone do this.

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brooksby replied to JustTryingToGetFromAtoB | 1 year ago
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JustTryingToGetFromAtoB wrote:

How can anyone do this.

It's outside the car, isn't it?  Therefore, it is Somebody Else's Problem.

(I've seen motorists driving around a plank of wood in the middle of road on my way home, when not one of them thought to stop and move it off the road).

(Yes, I did).

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Awavey replied to JustTryingToGetFromAtoB | 1 year ago
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Plenty do I've witnessed it, i was the only one to stop,other than the driver who caused it, when a cyclist was hit off their bike and needed medical assistance and experienced it first hand too, people just gawp erect a somebody else's problem field around it and carry on past.

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perce replied to Awavey | 1 year ago
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They are more likely to film the incident on their phone than offer assistance.

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Cocovelo replied to the little onion | 1 year ago
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Experienced this myself too. In fact, while I was down on the road a drivist wound down their window and very helpfully shouted at me saying that I shouldn't even be on the road.

Lots of interesting psychology going on in this situation about how people on bikes are not seen as human or seen as different. If you're on the road but not in a car then simply does not compute for most drivists.

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Clem Fandango replied to Cocovelo | 1 year ago
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Have had exactly the same experience. To be fair a couple of drivers came to scoop me up off the road and check I was ok & called an ambulance. Several others though just crawled past my broken form and mangled bike. I also got laughed at and got told "serves you right you c*nt". I'd been t- boned on a roundabout....

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