Bystanders fight to save life of woman in motorbike crash
A WOMAN riding pillion died after being thrown from the back of a motorbike in a crash with a taxi.
Passers-by battled to save the victim, in her forties, who was thrown 10ft down the road in the collision in Farringdon at 8.44pm last night.
Witnesses said the male rider of the motorcycle, who was also injured, was calling out her name in shock as she lay dying.
One witness, who arrived seconds after the crash, said: “A family were getting out of the back of the silvercoloured cab as I arrived, completely shaken up.
“The motorbike was under the front of the taxi and the woman had gone flying off.” The witness added: “I saw a guy who was walking around limping and in shock who must have been riding the bike. His helmet was on the road.
“He was calling her name and speaking as though he knew her. It was just so awful.”
He said that three people gave the woman CPR following the collision at the junction of Farringdon Road and Clerkenwell Road. But police said she was pronounced dead at the scene.
A Met spokeswoman said that the driver of the taxi had stopped at the scene. He has not been arrested.
Witnesses should call the Serious Collision Investigation Unit at Alperton on 020 8991 9555.