Man killed by brake handle
Read this today in Japan’s favourite online tabloid, the Mainichi.
Cyclist killed after brake lever pierces brain through eye
A Tokyo man has died in a cycling accident after the brake lever of another bicycle speared his eye and entered his brain, police said.
The 40-year-old company employee was hospitalized for 10 hours after the freak accident in Edogawa-ku before he was declared dead on Monday.
Police said the man was cycling home one-handed while using the other hand to pull along another bicycle he had left at a nearby restaurant and gone to pick up on Sunday night.
But the man fell off his bicycle and his head slammed into the handlebars on the other bike he was pulling, with the brake lever piercing his right eye and probably driving into his brain.
A female pedestrian found the man lying in a pool of blood beside the two bicycles on a roadside at about 8 p.m. Sunday and called for an ambulance.
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I can certainly think of a lot better ways to sign off this earth than a brake handle through the eye. It’s certainly something you should keep an eye out for in the future (pun intended!).
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