In St. Petersburg, a cyclist died after hitting the door of a car (2 photos + 1 video)
What happens if you find yourself at the wrong time and in the wrong place. In St. Petersburg, due to a sad coincidence, a cyclist died. When the door of a parked car suddenly opened, he was thrown under the wheels of a foreign car, and later died in the hospital. Fate.
The tragedy occurred on the afternoon of March 10 on Krestovsky Avenue. As the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg reported, the cyclist was riding in the right lane along the cars parked on the side of the road. When the 38-year-old driver began to open the front door of the Mercedes, the cyclist was thrown onto the roadway directly under the wheels of another car passing by.
The moment of the accident was captured on a street surveillance camera.
Judging by the footage, the cyclist was riding in a protective helmet and tracksuit. While driving around a parked car, he slowed down slightly and looked back several times at the foreign car driving around him on the left side, which also slowed down. By an evil coincidence, just at that moment the front door of a car parked at the side of the road opened.
As the department commented:
The cyclist was hit by a Volvo car driven by a 53-year-old driver, driving in the same direction. The cyclist was taken to a medical facility in serious condition.
Doctors fought for the life of the injured man for 24 hours. He was diagnosed with a fracture of the pelvis, humerus and femur, an open head injury and a severe brain contusion. On March 11, the man died in hospital.
I drove past and saw the moment of the collision. The unfortunate guy had all his bones broken. An ambulance quickly arrived there and took him to the shock intensive care unit; he seemed to be unconscious.
“, - one of the eyewitnesses Pavel describes the moment of the tragedy.