A CYCLIST in his 70s was taken to hospital with serious injuries after he was involved in an accident with a car yesterday.
Police closed Oxford’s Eastern Bypass near Risinghurst after the 7.43am crash.
The bypass was reopened by about 9am, but the closure added to the already major jams affecting roads around the city.
The air ambulance was called to the scene and landed near the bypass, but a road ambulance was used to take the man to the John Radcliffe Hospital. He was said to have serious but not life-threatening injuries.
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It was the second serious accident involving a cyclist and a vehicle in the city this week.
On Wednesday a man believed to be in his late teens was taken to the John Radcliffe with serious injuries after a collision with a lorry in Hernes Crescent, off Banbury Road.
There were two other collisions yesterday morning. Two people were treated at the scene after two vehicles were involved in an incident in Shilton Road, Carterton.
And two people were treated at the scene of another two-vehicle collision in North Leigh, near Witney.
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