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A cyclist was killed after a collision with a car on Brougham St just before 8 p.m. Thursday.
A bicyclist who died at a Christchurch intersection was crossing a street when he was hit by a pickup truck.
Emergency crews responded to the accident on Brougham St, near the intersection of Christchurch Southern Motorway and Simeon St in Addington, just before 8 p.m. Thursday.
A police spokeswoman said the rider was taken to Christchurch Hospital in critical condition where he later died.
Stuff understands that the cyclist, a man in his 50s, was crossing the street when the truck struck him.
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A witness to the accident, who asked not to be named, said he was driving in the westbound lane on Brougham St just before 8 p.m. when he saw the bicyclist crossing the road at a controlled intersection near Collins St. He was not sure if the cyclist had a green light to cross.
He then saw the headlights of a vehicle traveling in the eastbound lane toward the bicyclist “blink” for a fraction of a second, shortly before it struck the man.
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Police at the scene of the accident Thursday night.
“I saw [their] the lights flicker in an unusual pattern, ”the man said.
“I thought it was strange and when I got a little closer, he turned off the lights and I saw what had happened. He only blinked because that guy was in front of him for a split second. ”
He said the crossing was “a nightmare.”
“There is converging traffic, as well as a stoplight that a lot of people don’t expect to be there when they leave the highway.
The cause of the accident is being investigated, a police spokeswoman said.
Two fire crews also attended the accident and the road was closed for a time.
Nineteen more have died on Canterbury’s roads so far this year, 13 fewer than at the same time last year, according to the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA).
At least 27 other crashes have occurred on the stretch of Brougham St, where it intersects Simeon and Collins streets since January 2000, according to crash data from NZTA.
Two resulted in serious injuries, eight with moderate injuries and 17 without injuries.
