A twelve-year-old riding his bicycle was rushed to hospital with ‘possible life-changing injuries’ after a collision involving a lorry outside Borough Station, yesterday morning.
The incident took place at 8.10am on Wednesday, November 30, on Marshalsea Road, at the junction with Great Dover Street.
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Police attended with London Ambulance Service workers who rushed the boy to hospital. The lorry stopped at the scene and the road was closed off.
Witnesses reportedly said how the boy’s bike was “broken into two pieces”.
In September, a cyclist at the same junction was left fighting for his life after a collision – also with a lorry.
Speaking from the junction in an impassioned video posted to Twitter, cycling campaigner Simon Munk said: “These junctions are killing too many people in London… they’re injuring too many people in London [who are] walking and cycling.
“Sadiq Khan… has committed by 2041 to end serious collisions and fatal collisions in London… but he won’t get there unless he, TfL and politicians across London act much more boldly on junctions like this – dangerous junctions.”
This morning a 12-year-old boy was hit by a lorry driver while cycling to school.
This is 10 weeks after a man was critically injured while ? by a lorry driver at exactly the same place.
This. Is. NOT. Okay. ? Demand action on #DangerousJunctions nowhttps://t.co/calt9qzSmj pic.twitter.com/61w6xuWHoF
— London Cycling Campaign (@London_Cycling) November 30, 2022
Enquiries into the circumstances remain ongoing.