Cyclist smashed head open after horror fall and died as motorists ignored him

Daily Mirror

29-04-2025

Cyclist smashed head open after horror fall and died as motorists ignored him
WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: A cyclist died after he fell from his bike and landed on the top of his head, suffering a cracked skull and blood loss as motorists ignored him in the road
The cyclist died after falling off a high kerb
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The body of a cyclist who was killed when he landed on his head after his bike came off a high kerb was ignored by several passing motorists as he lay in the road.
The victim was cycling home from work when he tried to jump down and seemed to misjudge the height as his front wheel hit the road. The bicycle ended up practically vertical, throwing the man from it. In horror scenes captured on CCTV too graphic to show, he lands directly on top of his head and finally crumples to the ground. Horrifically, the footage showed several cars driving past him as he lay ignored on the road.
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The footage showed several cars driving past him
(Image: Jam Press )
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One car seemed to veer around him after the horror accident in Três Corações, north-east of São Paulo, Brazil, last Sunday.
According to reports, a passing paramedic eventually pulled over to attend to the injured cyclist. They said the young man had cracked his skull and was haemorrhaging blood.
The victim was taken to the nearby São Sebastião Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. He was heading to his home in the Flora neighbourhood when he suffered the fatal accident.
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Earlier this year it was reported a cyclist was on the brink of death after crashing into a cattle trailer. Jon Hill, a 62-year-old project manager from Macclesfield, was on his "favourite route" when the accident happened in August 2022.
The victim lay ignored in the road by passing motorists
(Image: Jam Press )
Luckily, passing motorists spotted him and called 999 - since then, he has become friends with the strangers who rescued him and even celebrated the one-year anniversary of the accident with them. When Jon arrived at the hospital, doctors found he had broken his collarbones and ribs, and punctured his kidney.
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Looking back, Jon only has fleeting memories of seeing people at his bedside and can barely remember the crash itself. With the help of physiotherapy, Jon slowly began to recover.
The near-death experience made him reassess his life, leading him to work part-time and volunteer at the North West Air Ambulance Charity to give something back.
Jon said: "I was pretty poorly. I had various fractures and a broken collarbone and broken ribs. My broken ribs punctured my kidney so when I was in hospital, they did a procedure called embolisation so they actually cut off the blood supply to the kidneys.
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"So the kidney is still there, but I'm told it would just shrivel up and do nothing. I think that together with the lacerated liver was the reason why I had the problem that I had at the scene, which if without the intervention from doctors I probably wouldn't have made it I don't think I was very far from death."