Lucky Cyclist Versus Broken Dumptruck

A local bicyclist can now lay claim to being the luckiest man alive who still has to ride a bicycle. An out-of-control dumptruck ran over his freaking head! He was wearing a helmet, however and survived with no injuries.

From WTOP here:

A man is lucky to be alive after a dump truck ran over his head in the Ballston area over the weekend.

The incident happened around 2:15 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 24. According to police, the cyclist was stopped at a temporary red light next to a construction site on Quincy Street near Wilson Boulevard, when an unoccupied dump truck started rolling south on Quincy and struck him.

The man was knocked to the ground and one of the truck’s tires ran over his head. The man was wearing a helmet at the time and the helmet likely saved his life. He was taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital’s trauma center with non-life-threatening injuries.

Immediately after the incident the driver of the dump truck, who had left it running and unattended next to the construction site, ran it down and managed to stop it from rolling further. Occupational safety officials responded to the scene, inspected the truck and found multiple safety violations

I always thought those helmets were just brain buckets. I had no idea they could withstand that kind of impact.