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

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.

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 *****!!

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. 

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...

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.

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!

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?

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.