Witness appeal: Police seek cyclist who collided with pedestrian on London's Regent St

An accident has happened. Someone has sadly died as a result of this incedent. Condolences to the family and friends of the victim.
Let's hope the cyclist has the courage to step forward and help the family make some sense of this.

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Sad that the pedestrian died. I see a lot of people walk out in the roads without checking because there isn't a car noise to hear, then the screeching of bicycle brakes and choice words between the two usually occurs. Don't see that changing much.

I generally look where I'm going and shout a warning, saves lots of problems.

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With no details as the collision, it impossible to say who (if anyone) was at fault at the collision.
The Police have said the cyclist stopped and spoke to the man afterwards, so it wasn't as if he was trying to get away.
I hope he come forward, but it will be hard to link the collision to the stroke and prove blame for the collision (unless they have some better CCTV).

Those pictures are useless. The first looks like a generic male London cycle commuter (look similar to me!) and the seconds looks like a shot from a late 80s commuter game.

The comments here make me despair. If this was a cyclist hit by a motorcyclist we'd all be working like mad to try to figure out ways to identify the motorcyclist. Here we're trying to absolve the cyclist.

Why? We're not saints!

If I had hit someone, we'd had "a conversation" ascertained that we were both OK and then I'd ridden off only to find later that the person had died, I'd be horrified and definitely hand myself in. However, I'd also be scared witless of the consequences.

As a matter of fact, many years ago (more than 10) I did hit a pedestrian who ran into the road in front of me. We did have a conversation and then went on our way. I have no idea if a jury would have blamed me for the incident, or her, if it had gone to court.

So I really feel for both families involved and hope this is resolved as soon as possible.

"According to police, “Initially both parties appeared uninjured and having spoken with each other at the scene they then carried on their journeys.”

I wonder quite what they want to talk to him about? Blame culture Britain. I am sorry for the gentleman who passed away, but I sincerely hope the cyclist never hears of this.

As I said when they showed the second picture on the news last night 'If that's the best photograph you've got, don't bother!' This country is littered with CCTV cameras but whenever they show a still it looks something like this. I was on a double-decker bus last week sitting on the bottom deck in front of a flat-screen TV showing video images from the bus's TEN cctv cameras.

I don't think i can take much more road.cc..

Obviously it's a tragedy that Mr Purkis is dead,but
it seems to me it would be very difficult to prove any culpability as there is a gap of two days between the incident and the death, and he could have struck his head at another time during that period. Or did he attend a hospital immediately afterwards ?

I think that given a man has died it is only right the police follow up with the cyclist involved. There doesn't appear to be any blame from the police at this point but if the post mortem points towards the injury being caused by the collision then of course it should be followed up.

Another big leap here but the most likely medical scenario is an abrupt neck extension causing an internal carotid artery intimal tear (arterial dissection). This causes platelet activation, a clot forms and then can break off later. Very sad. The initial injury may have seemed trivial at the time.

Sad that the pedestrian died. I see a lot of people walk out in the roads without checking because there isn't a car noise to hear, then the screeching of bicycle brakes and choice words between the two usually occurs. Don't see that changing much.

This article sounds like the police are blaming the cyclist for the stroke which sounds like a big leap. I guess he should get McCourt's lawyer (http://road.cc/content/news/90243-appeal-judges-urged-impose-lifetime-ba...) and blame the pedestrian for not wearing a helmet.