Good Samaritan...Guy In Island

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,
On my way home and hit new roundabout, guy off bike on roundabout island, chain off.
So I stop and he says he's fallen off Roadworks have been on for a year or more 100 Mil bypass, various cyclist have come to grief on ramps / off camber bends / mud. Permanent road sweeper clean roads.
I too have been very closly cut up several times

After a short while he's not all their and I grab his bike so he can recover.
Put his chain on and check its not got twisted links a minute of so later he's better so job done and he's OK.
I did not see him mount the bike as I shove off (I shouda really) but no grazes or worst blood so I guess he' ok, he walked off in other direction, I was not that worried as he said he was OK.

[rjb]

Well done. Few years ago on a club run we came across a young lad lying in the road who had come a cropper on a descent. We got him onto the pavement and rang his parents - this was in the early days of mobiles and someone had a works phone. He said several cars had passed him and ignored his plight. What happened to basic humanity when behind the wheel.

[pwa]

I was cycling to work early one morning with very little traffic on the road. I cruised past a young man on a mountain bike and after a few moments became aware that he was upping his pace and was in full pursuit. He passed me on the right, cut in front then (for no reason) tried to mount the curb to my left. He got the angle wrong, his forks twisted to the right and he went over the bars, hitting his unlidded head on the ground. Blood everywhere! Naturally I stopped, and given his injury I resisted the temptation to ask about his bike handling. I suggested that he give himself a moment or two before trying to stand, and I asked him how he was feeling. I checked his pupils and looked for signs of other injuries. The blood was from a superficial scalp injury, which I told him. But he was grumpy and far from appreciative. A funny experience, really.

[661-Pete]

I still haven't been able to thank the two ladies who tended to me, ten years ago, when I had an 'off' on a quiet country lane and knocked myself unconscious with a bit of amnesia. I was a bit stupid even after coming round: I didn't get their names or their car reg., I don't even remember whether they were in the same car or two separate ones. One of them called the ambulance, waited till its arrival, then they went their way. If by the remotest chance you're reading this, ladies, belated thanks!