Andrew Leach, 66, was cycling to his daughter’s netball match in Oxford in November 2021 when he hit a pothole, falling off his bike. He lay in the middle of the Oxfordshire B-road, unable to move, for about 90 minutes, until police arrived and moved him to the side of the road.
“It was coming up to rush hour. I think I am very lucky not to have been killed,” he said, as passersby followed advice to wait for an ambulance. “It showed the state of emergency services too – they’re clearly overstretched.” Following a three-hour wait for an ambulance, Leach was taken to hospital: the fall had broken his hip.
