Re: Lemmiwinks in Canberra hospital

On May 6, 3:32 pm, "D&M JOHNSTON" <mrj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> G'day,
>
> Would that accident have anything to do with a guy in a ute who ran into
> some cyclists in Canberra and didn't stop?
>
> One of the guys who i am in touch with down there in Canberra was
telling me
> about it as he was riding in this group although he was further behind
and
> luckily not involved but was telling me about the guys who were hit.
>
> Give him our best regards and hope he has a successful recovery.
>
> Cheers
> DJ

That was the Friday Vikings group from the ANU, which Bean usually
rides in but was having a sickie. Riding along in the bike lane and
the ute drives up next to the bunch, swerves into the bike lane
knocking three off, then drives away. The worst off had his forks cut
right out from underneath and went straight onto his face - he has
fractures and no recollection of what happened, but he was out of
hospital by the evening so is doing OK relative to what it could have
been. Who knows what was going on in that ute - whether he was trying
to give the bunch a scare and got it wrong or was answering his phone
or what. A witness eventually returned and the bloke handed himself in
about two hours later, I think (probably after a phone call to the
lawyers).

Best wishes to L and family - hospitals are not fun places to be in.