What a day...oh, what a day!

The day starts as usual. Drop Hannah off, drive into Uni and so on. All pretty much standard apart from one small event.
I had parked the car and was making the 10 minute trek to the Portland building. My route takes me from Gunwharf quays, east along Park road then, at the crossroads between Park road and burnaby road, I turn left and follow it to the Portland building. As I said it was a normal day and my mind was wandering (as I was up the road). I heard a noise like a car skidding and I looked up just at the moment when a car collided with a cyclist! The cyclist hit the bonnet and rolled up against the windscreen, the bicycle sliding a good 20 feet! I automatically reached for my phone, dialled 999 and requested an ambulance. The cyclist who turned out to be a young female, was sitting in the road clearly in shock.
I'm not the type to interfere, I can imagine how annoying it must be to have all these people crowding around you. As soon as the accident had happened there were people everywhere, surrounding the scene so it's not like I was just being horrid by standing further away. I tried telling the female an ambulance was on its way but as you can imagine, it fell on deaf ears.
Anyway, a few members of the public walked her to the pavement and moved the bicycle and car and she sat down there. Rather than interrupt the constant "are you ok?" questions, I casually walked up to the group and said "there's an ambulance on its way, if she deteriorates dial 999". I then continued my walk (Fortunately, with no more disasters or accidents!).

BUT

I have a couple of things/problems/queries with this whole scenario:

Firstly, I'd like to tell you all what exactly I was thinking when the accident took place (prepare for tangent). I had just walked past a guy who was sweeping the leaves up on the pavement. As I passed him, he stopped sweeping to let me past so I thanked him. He just kept his head down, didn't respond and carried on with his grumpy sweeping. I instantly thought; rude b*st*rd but then my thoughts changed. Maybe he wasn't grumpy, maybe he was ashamed, he could be an ex-con serving his time for some terrible crime he had commited and thats when I heard the skidding of the car.
Its a strange thought but one that I have pondered, intermittently all day.

Second thing:

As soon as the accident had happened I checked the scene surrounding the crossroads to try and gauge what, why and how. The traffic lights that govern the crossroads showed green for the direction that the car involved was travelling. The direction that the girl had been cycling in had a red light signalling for ALL traffic to stop.
I knew exactly what had happened, the female cyclist thought the same as many cyclists in Britain: 'I dont have to stop at red lights, they're for cars only.' Now, I could be wrong, I'm just describing what I saw and it really bothers me. This girl was now in a potentially critical state all because of her own ignorance to the laws of the road!
I would say it serves her right but at this present moment and also at the time, that would have been a bit harsh.
Whatever happened, she's going to have a few aches in the morning..at least!

Right, I think that will do for the blog today. Thanks for letting me moan!

Over and out..