The collision happened along King Street’s two-way cycle lane on 16 June.<\/p>\n
Hughes said the incident happened so fast that she was not sure what kind of e-bike she was hit by.<\/p>\n
“When I got to A&E, they tried to realign my arm and couldn’t,” she said.<\/p>\n
“And then when I went back a couple of days later, they told me that I’d shattered the bone and I would need to have plate and six screws in my arm. So I had the operation.<\/p>\n
“Obviously the scar’s still there and I’m hoping that will that will fade over time. I’ve been told it’s probably four months of physio, and I probably won’t get the full recovery for up to a year, but they’re saying that it may be that I only get 70% of my movement back.”<\/p>\n
Hughes has been a cyclist in London for 25 years but collision has shaken her confidence to the point where she is unsure if she will cycle again.<\/p>\n
“I’m a huge fan of cycling and I’m an advocate for getting people on bikes. <\/p>\n
“But this has really shaken my confidence both as a cyclist but also as a pedestrian. And just being even a pedestrian in busy areas where there’s e-bikes around, I feel very anxious.”<\/p>\n
She added: “Up until maybe a year ago, cars always felt like the biggest danger to me. But I think in the last year, I definitely feel that recklessly driven e-bikes are a far bigger danger to cyclists. <\/p>\n
“And it feels like it is just increasing. So I do feel like it has got progressively worse over the last few months to the point now where in some parts of my commute, I feel like you’re almost outnumbered by e-bikes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The collision happened along King Street’s two-way cycle lane on 16 June. Hughes said the incident happened so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-895057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}