Tuesday 7 June 2022 04:37 PM WATCH: Cyclist bounces off van's windscreen after crossing roadway without ... trends now

This is the moment a cyclist went flying into a car windscreen at such force the driver thought he was 'dead' - prompting him to shout 'that wasn't my fault' in shock to passersby.

Plumber Ian Payne was driving to fix an emergency leak in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on May 23 when the rider came flying out from behind a parked van seemingly without looking and smashed into his bonnet.

Footage shows the cyclist hit the car with such force that his head - only wearing a baseball cap and no helmet - bounces off off the windscreen and cracks it, before he crashes to the floor and howls in pain.

The 68-year-old driver screeches to a halt and immediately shouts out of his window to tradesmen working next to them in 'shock', pointing out it was the cyclist's error for racing across the junction without looking.

Mr Payne claims he called police and an ambulance but the cyclist rode off before the ambulance arrived - leaving Ian furious as he claims the rider had admitted to not being sober.

He  said: 'Just when I'd come off the A3, there was a van on the island and there were some guys fixing a light.

'As I was driving round, I was coming around about 18 miles an hour and then suddenly this bike just appeared from nowhere.

'He'd come off the footpath, straight across one road then on a footpath onto the island and hit me. He was so fast.

'It was just a shock at first. I did turn round and swear and shout at those guys fixing the lights, 'It's not my fault', but I think that was just the shock of the moment.

'I always thought I was a careful driver anyway, he was just going so fast I could never stop him. There was space for him to stop so really he should have stopped on the other side of the road.

'I was shaking a little bit. I had to take a few minutes to

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