Knocked out by a mystery bus
A Wellington cyclist who says she was knocked out after colliding with a bus in Karori is still in a fight to find out which bus company was involved.
Sophia Grey was cycling to work when she was involved in a crash on Chaytor St on January 16.
When she woke up, a bystander who had stopped to help, told her she had collided with a redand-white bus displaying a ‘‘Not in Service’’ sign.
But Grey’s efforts to identify which company the bus belonged to have so far led to a dead end.
"When I was going round the corner [from Karori Rd], I got tapped on my right side by something,’’ Grey said.
‘‘I came to on the footpath and I was told by the guy who pulled me up that it was a bus, and that I flipped a couple of times and I was a couple of metres from my bike.’’
Although a ‘‘bit dazed’’, Grey thought she was fine and walked to work in central Wellington with her damaged bike. But when she got to her office, colleagues told her to go to police. Police then told her to go to the hospital for a checkup.
Aside from severe bruising, doctors told Grey she had suffered a suspected concussion. A doctor told her a week later she had a suspected torn shoulder ligament. She will get a scan on that next week.
Grey called public transport operator Metlink the day after the crash to report the incident. She was referred to NZ Bus, which operates commuter routes in Karori.
But NZ Bus said none of its buses were operating near the crash site at the time of the incident, and none of its drivers recalled seeing a cyclist on that section of Chaytor St.
A police spokeswoman confirmed the incident was reported on January 19, but there were no traffic cameras near the site so there was nothing they could do.
Wellington’s other commuter bus companies – Tranzit Group, Mana Coach Services, and Uzabus – all said they were not involved in the incident, as did New Zealand Coach Services (NCS), whose charter buses were predominantly white.