Accident
The news spread like wildfire this morning. There had been a road accident on nearby Ecclesall Road at the junction that leads to our local Co-op supermarket and to Phoebe and Margot's nursery school. Twenty minutes before the accident, Frances had dropped Phoebe off at our house before taking Margot to the nursery school for her last day session of the week. At first there was some confusion about what had happened but as the day advanced, the information became clearer. A sixteen year old cyclist on his way to school had collided with a car and had then been jettisoned into the path of an oncoming lorry. At one point, there were four police vehicles at the scene and three ambulances. A helicopter landed in nearby Endcliffe Park but it proved unnecessary for the boy was soon sped to hospital in a regular road ambulance. He remains in hospital in what a spokesperson has called "a critical condition". The busy A road was sealed off until 4pm. Shirley passed by the scen...