Conservative MP suffers broken hand after being doored while cycling in Bournemouth

Tobias Ellwood was taken to hospital following the incident

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A Bournemouth MP suffered a broken hand after being doored while cycling through the seaside town centre.

Tobias Ellwood, the Conservative MP who gave CPR to police officer Keith Palmer during the terrorist attack on Parliament on 2017, was taken to hospital after he came off his bike, saying a car passenger opened their door as he approached a set of traffic lights.

The MP told the Bournemouth Echo: "I was riding down Holdenhurst Road. The traffic light was on red so I rode to the front. A car passenger opened their door and I went over the door, trapping my hand."

Police have said it is currently "not clear" if any other vehicles were involved in the collision, and that they will "be taking no further action at the moment".

In 2016, the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling knocked a cyclist off his bike outside Parliament after opening his ministerial car's door as it sat in traffic outside the Palace of Westminster.

The MP said it was an "unfortunate accident" and while the cyclist was unharmed, his bike sustained damage to its wheel, brakes and lights.

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Jonny Long

Jonny was Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor until 2022.

I like writing offbeat features and eating too much bread when working out on the road at bike races.

Before joining Cycling Weekly I worked at The Tab and I've also written for Vice, Time Out, and worked freelance for The Telegraph (I know, but I needed the money at the time so let me live).

I also worked for ITV Cycling between 2011-2018 on their Tour de France and Vuelta a España coverage. Sometimes I'd be helping the producers make the programme and other times I'd be getting the lunches. Just in case you were wondering - Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen had the same ham sandwich every day, it was great.