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    02 August 2012| last updated at 06:14PM

    Olympic bus driver bailed following fatal collision



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    LONDON: The driver of an Olympics media shuttle bus was bailed by police on Thursday following a fatal collision with a cyclist just outside London’s Olympic Park.

     

    The driver, in his mid-60s, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of  causing death by dangerous driving, following the incident late Wednesday.
     
    An AFP reporter saw a man’s legs protruding from under the double-decker  bus on a Games lane slip road leading from the park. The man’s mangled racing  bicycle lay nearby.
     
    The cyclist, a man aged 28, was pronounced dead at the scene.
     
    The incident happened just outside the perimeter of the Olympic Park behind  the Riverbank Arena, where a men’s hockey match between Pakistan and Argentina  was taking place.
     
    The shuttle buses ferry the thousands of journalists covering the Games  between the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, and hotels in the city  centre.
     
    A London 2012 spokesman confirmed that the bus was carrying media from the  Olympic Park.
     
    British cyclist Bradley Wiggins, who won the men’s individual time trial  gold on Wednesday, called for the introduction of laws making it compulsory to  wear cycling helmets.
     
    Wiggins also urged people in general not to wear headphones while cycling. -- AFP
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