If you ride through town, or indeed if you ever find yourself in a position where you are likely to be filtering past cars or other vehicles then this applies to you.

Judgment

Mr Justice Leveson

1 At about 7pm on 14th December 2000, Mr Thomas Collins was riding his bicycle home along Newington Butts, in the direction of Elephant and Castle in South London. Although slightly inaccurate, in common with the convention adopted throughout this trial, I will refer to this direction of travel as northbound. His home was in a block of flats on the offside of the road, reached through Hampton Street, which provides access to bicycles only. Hampton Street cannot lawfully be reached directly from the northbound carriageway of Newington Butts, because no right turn is permitted by that junction. At the start of these proceedings, how Mr Collins came to be cycling across Newington Butts to reach Hampton Street was in issue, but what is clear is that as he did so, he was struck by a London bus. Unfortunately, he was not wearing a helmet and he suffered serious head injuries. In the proceedings commenced for damages for personal injury, this hearing has been devoted to issues of liability.