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This video just came in via the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and the San Francisco Bike Ride Crew. It's truly nuts. An SFPD cruiser apparently parked in the right-turn pocket suddenly pulls out, swerves left and hits a cyclist.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eacBcZKSh7Q

Streetsblog will post more information as it comes in, but apparently the cyclist is Tim Doyle, and it seems he suffered some pretty bad injuries, although he was discharged from the hospital after 10 hours in the emergency room.

Here's Doyle's description of the crash on a related thread about a different collision between a driver and bicyclist that occurred yesterday, on Market Street.

I got hit by a SFPD car at 5:45pm at 2nd and Mission. At Least I got hit by a cop who didn't try to flee. He called an ambulance for me. But I did see that a bit of a lie trying to be put into the report that the lights and siren were on. Not true. The cop car was in a parking space alongside 2nd street and without looking or seeing me just pulled out into my lane as I was doing 25mph and I t-boned the cop car. I flew 15 feet through the air and landed flat on my back. Spent 10 hours in the SFGH Emergency Department and was discharged with a few cracked bones and a gnarly right leg wound.

Thank goodness he's alive. And thank goodness for video so there's no question of fault. Doyle confirmed directly in an email to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition that he was released from SF General at 4 a.m.

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