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  1. Just picked this up from Singletrack: singletrackworld.co.ukarticle.php

    Deputy Editor of Cycling plus magazine, Paul Vincent is today recovering in hospital from serious
    injuries after being knocked off his bike.

    Paul, one time runner up in the World's Skinniest Singlespeeder competition is in a bad way in
    hospital right now.

    Office colleague, Simon Withers explained the facts as they are known on the C+ forum today.

    'Long-time Cycling Plus deputy editor Paul Vincent will be out of the office for quite a while after
    suffering severe injuries in a crash yesterday morning. We're not sure of all the details yet, but
    he had just started his 17 mile ride to work to Bath from north of Bristol when he was hit by a car.
    The police were called, and we have been told that a car trying to do U-turn while going the wrong
    way along a one way street was involved, though we're not sure whether this car hit Paul, or a car
    trying to avoid the car doing a U-turn. Either way he suffered severe injuries. He's presently in
    Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, with four or five broken ribs, a punctured lung (for which he has a
    drain), and a very badly broken ankle, which is being operated on to reset it today. Not
    surprisingly he is in a great deal of pain, and he is on a morphine drip. We're hoping to go to see
    him early next week, and will keep you posted on his progress.'

  2. Tony Raven said:

    Just picked this up from Singletrack: singletrackworld.co.ukarticle.php

    Deputy Editor of Cycling plus magazine, Paul Vincent is today recovering in hospital from serious
    injuries after being knocked off his bike.

    Paul, one time runner up in the World's Skinniest Singlespeeder competition is in a bad way in
    hospital right now.

    Office colleague, Simon Withers explained the facts as they are known on the C+ forum today.

    'Long-time Cycling Plus deputy editor Paul Vincent will be out of the office for quite a while
    after suffering severe injuries in a crash yesterday morning. We're not sure of all the details
    yet, but he had just started his 17 mile ride to work to Bath from north of Bristol when he was
    hit by a car. The police were called, and we have been told that a car trying to do U-turn while
    going the wrong way along a one way street was involved, though we're not sure whether this car
    hit Paul, or a car trying to avoid the car doing a U-turn. Either way he suffered severe injuries.
    He's presently in Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, with four or five broken ribs, a punctured lung (for
    which he has a drain), and a very badly broken ankle, which is being operated on to reset it
    today. Not surprisingly he is in a great deal of pain, and he is on a morphine drip. We're hoping
    to go to see him early next week, and will keep you posted on his progress.'

    As a cyclist I'd be most worried about the ankle. Sounds nasty, and they don't always set straight.

  3. "Zog The Undeniable" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Tony Raven said:

    Just picked this up from Singletrack: singletrackworld.co.ukarticle.php

    Deputy Editor of Cycling plus magazine, Paul Vincent is today recovering in hospital from
    serious injuries after being knocked off his bike.


    snip

    Quoted message said:

    As a cyclist I'd be most worried about the ankle. Sounds nasty, and they don't always set
    straight.

    As a cyclist I'd be glad to be alive.

    Ken.

  4. Kenneth Clements said:

    As a cyclist I'd be glad to be alive.

    As a cyclist I'd be calling the CTC's legal hotline.

    --
    Guy chapmancentral.demon.co.ukchapmancentral.demon.co.uk "Sic hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter
    educatus et nimis propinquus ades"

  5. Just zis Guy said:
    Kenneth Clements said:

    As a cyclist I'd be glad to be alive.

    As a cyclist I'd be calling the CTC's legal hotline.

    With a punctured lung and a morphine drip I'd have other priorities. It's a bit worrying the number
    of well-known cyclists who have had bad accidents in the past year.

    --
    [email hidden] (Simon Brooke) jasmine.org.uk~simon

    ;; I'd rather live in sybar-space

  6. Simon Brooke said:

    It's a bit worrying the number of well-known cyclists who have had bad accidents in the past year.

    And even more worrying that some of them have been dismissed as accidents even though they were
    apparently the result of gross negligence by one party.

    --
    Guy chapmancentral.demon.co.ukchapmancentral.demon.co.uk "Sic hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter
    educatus et nimis propinquus ades"

  7. Simon Brooke said:

    It's a bit worrying the number of well-known cyclists who have had bad accidents in the past year.


    As I am definitely not well-known and my best time for a "10" is about 27 minutes, I should be
    safe then!

  8. Zog The Undeniable <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:
    Simon Brooke said:

    It's a bit worrying the number of well-known cyclists who have had bad accidents in the
    past year.


    As I am definitely not well-known...

    Were you not the king of Albania then?

    --
    Dave...

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