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Boris Johnson (@MayorOfLondon) Assassination Attempt!

Posted on May 24, 2009 by Karl McCracken

This is SCARY stuff!

This video comes via Andrea at Velorution. Just watch the truck come bowling along, desperate to overtake the cyclists . . one of whom was Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, who was out scouting routes for a cycling super highway.

I’m with Andrea on this – it’s time for some power to be exercised by the Mayor’s office to stop this sort of mayhem.

Boris is famous as a cyclist for not routinely wearing a helmet (maybe ‘cos it would mess up his hair?). But it looks like yesterday was one of those days when he was lidded up. Who wants to bet with me that some nutter in the press will make an issue of this? I can just see the headlines now . . .

Tousle-Haired Boris, who routinely rides without a helmet,  was lucky to escape when a parked car was dragged into his path by a passing truck

[Tom Vanderbilt - note the passive voice!].

Bah!

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2 Responses

  1. amsterdamize, on May 24th, 2009 at 10:58 am Said:

    that accident is insane and the commentary equally nuts. How the hell is a bloody helmet going to safe you when a truck catapults a car at you.

    You know that this bs boils my blood, every time I read something like this it’s more like they left their brain at home.

    You’d almost hope for a satellite to come scorching through the atmosphere and freakishly hit their helmeted heads, just to anticipate the caption…

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  2. john, on May 25th, 2009 at 12:26 pm Said:

    oi! to be fair if he was cycling as normal and got a scratch they would cry see if he had been wearing a helmet we would not have gotten that scratch!!!!

    also to be fair i would never ever cycle in downtown london with out my helmet, people who do are insane, yes i know the stats (i dont always wear a helmet) but the traffic is so freaking scary!! once you get out of parliament and the financial district its quite wonderful to be honest but cycling centre london was one of the scariest 30 minutes of my life, seriously.

    something needs to be done with lorries to be honest, thats a whole lot of freaking mass with not much visibility.

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