Teenage cyclist left with life-threatening injuries after collision on guided busway in Cambridge
A teenage cyclist has been left with life-threatening injuries after a collision with a bus on the guided busway in Cambridge.
The 16-year-old boy, from Cambridge, was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, where he remains in a serious but stable condition.
The latest collision - which follows the death of a pedestrian last month - happened at 5.46pm on Tuesday (November 9) on the busway between Chariot Way and Chieftain Way, in the Orchard Park area.
The bus driver remained at the scene and helped police with their inquiries.
Sergeant Timothy Davies, from the Beds, Cambs and Herts Road Policing Unit, said: “We’re keen for anyone who witnessed what happened, or who has relevant dashcam footage, to contact us as a matter of urgency.”
No arrests have been made.
Today, police also named the pedestrian who died following the collision on the busway at Sedley Taylor Road on October 26 as Kathleen Pitts, 52, of Ravensworth Gardens, Cambridge. That collision happened just after 6pm on October 26 and the cause of it has not been established.
The Health and Safety Executive said it was investigating that incident with police, but has yet to conclude its probe into the 2018 death of cyclist Steve Moir, from Sawston, who died on September 13, 2018, in a head-on collision with a bus when he fell in its path. Mr Moir had clipped the kerb that separates the path from the busway while trying to overtake pedestrians.
It happened in a similar area of the busway, between Long Road and Cambridge railway station to the October 26 collision.
The county council has instructed an independent expert to examine the southern section of busway where these two incidents happened.
Witnesses to the latest collision, which happened in the north of the city, can contact police via their web chat service at https://bit.ly/3vsiYDw or online forms at www.cambs.police.uk/report quoting incident 386 of 9 November. Anyone without internet access should call 101.
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