Moment Lime bike bike owner smashes right into a double-decker bus
This is the second a bike owner on a employed electrically-assisted Lime bike crashed into the again of a double decker bus which had stopped dramatically in the course of the street.
Footage captured on a dashcam reveals the bus come to a halt after braking closely on Eaton Rise, Ealing.
Less than a second later the bike, with its distinctive inexperienced entrance basket slammed into the rear of the bus.
The riders are assisted on the bikes by a strong electrical motor which may propel it in direction of a most pace of 14.8mph.
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The footage reveals the bike owner driving behind the bus which brakes closely on Eaton Rise in Ealing, west London
The bike owner was unable to cease in time and was thrown over the handlebars of the bike into the again of the bus earlier than collapsing on the bottom
Such was the power of the influence, the rear wheel of the bike is lifted from the bottom because the rider is propelled over the handlebars, into the bus, earlier than collapsing onto the tarmac.
The footage reveals the rider shifting barely on the bottom earlier than the clip ends.
It was shared by the @UB1UB2 account on X, previously referred to as Twitter, and has been considered greater than 184,000 instances.
One one that considered the video prompt TV presenter and eager bike owner Jeremy Vine ‘would blame the bus driver’.
While a second prompt: ‘In equity, these massive pink buses are laborious to see.’ Another on the same theme mentioned the bike owner ought to ‘go to Specsavers’.
Several individuals requested whether or not the bike owner failed to identify the bus as a result of they had been concentrating on their cell phone handset.
Shaun O, with a barely tongue-in-cheek response claimed: ‘He does not cease for reds.’
Transport for London mentioned they’d no touch upon the video.
The Metropolitan Police and London Ambulance Service mentioned the collision had not been reported to them.
MailOnline has additionally approached Lime for a remark.
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It is unknown whether or not the bike owner, who was left in a heap on the bottom, was injured within the collision
