'Distracted' cyclist crashes into BMW on wrong side of road after peeking into luxury hotel at The Shard
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2016-05-06
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London cabbie Kevin Portch filmed the incident outside the five-star Shangri-La Hotel on his dashcam
This is the calamitous moment a seemingly distracted cyclist crashes head-on into a car on the wrong side of the road after peeking inside a luxury hotel.
In the footage, the commuter appears to glance into the five-star Shangri-La Hotel at The Shard , a popular celeb hangout in south-east London.
Seconds later, he collides head-on with a BMW 3-Series, which seems to be parking up outside the hotel, located inside London's tallest skyscraper.
The cyclist, dressed in bright blue biking gear, collided with the vehicle while it was on the wrong side of the road at around 9.15am on Sunday.Thought to be travelling at around 10mph, he flies onto the bonnet of the vehicle before picking himself up and remonstrating with the driver.
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Cabbie Kevin Portch, 53, captured the odd incident on his dashcam.
He said: "I didn't see what happened live, it was only when I heard shouting that I looked out the window and saw the cyclist and the driver arguing."I immediately got called out to a job so I didn't see the end of it but they both seemed to be blaming each other.
"The only reason I could think that it could have happened is that the BMW would be parking up because it is a two-way street.
"If you look carefully, you can just see the cyclist take a quick look in the hotel because you often get quite a few Lamborghinis and posh cars in there so whether that distracted him or not, I'm not sure."The taxi driver insisted that the footage had still left him puzzled and was an odd event even for London's red routes.
He admitted that he had not seen an incident like it in nine years of driving around the capital's streets.
Kevin added: "I've been a cabbie for a long time and you see a lot of things happen on the city streets between cyclists and cars as you drive around.
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"But I've never seen anything like it with a car basically at walking speed on the wrong side of the road."
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London cabbie Kevin Portch filmed the incident outside the five-star Shangri-La Hotel on his dashcam
This is the calamitous moment a seemingly distracted cyclist crashes head-on into a car on the wrong side of the road after peeking inside a luxury hotel.
In the footage, the commuter appears to glance into the five-star Shangri-La Hotel at The Shard , a popular celeb hangout in south-east London.
Seconds later, he collides head-on with a BMW 3-Series, which seems to be parking up outside the hotel, located inside London's tallest skyscraper.
The cyclist, dressed in bright blue biking gear, collided with the vehicle while it was on the wrong side of the road at around 9.15am on Sunday.Thought to be travelling at around 10mph, he flies onto the bonnet of the vehicle before picking himself up and remonstrating with the driver.
Read more :
Cabbie Kevin Portch, 53, captured the odd incident on his dashcam.
He said: "I didn't see what happened live, it was only when I heard shouting that I looked out the window and saw the cyclist and the driver arguing."I immediately got called out to a job so I didn't see the end of it but they both seemed to be blaming each other.
"The only reason I could think that it could have happened is that the BMW would be parking up because it is a two-way street.
"If you look carefully, you can just see the cyclist take a quick look in the hotel because you often get quite a few Lamborghinis and posh cars in there so whether that distracted him or not, I'm not sure."The taxi driver insisted that the footage had still left him puzzled and was an odd event even for London's red routes.
He admitted that he had not seen an incident like it in nine years of driving around the capital's streets.
Kevin added: "I've been a cabbie for a long time and you see a lot of things happen on the city streets between cyclists and cars as you drive around.
Read more :
"But I've never seen anything like it with a car basically at walking speed on the wrong side of the road."
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