Cyclist rushed to hospital after crash with tipper truck in Whitechapel High Street

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A woman cyclist was taken to hospital after a crash with a lorry on a busy high street in east London.

The accident happened at a junction along Whitechapel High Street, near Aldgate East station, shortly after 11am on Wednesday.

Shocked witnesses described seeing a woman lying in the road and her bicycle under the lorry.

One woman, whose office overlooks where the crash happened, told the Standard: “I saw for a woman lying in the road being tended to by paramedics and then taken away on a stretcher in an ambulance.

“The road was closed while this was happening, but the police are now directing traffic through around the scene of the crash.

“The lorry is still in the middle of the junction.”

A Met spokesman said: “Officers and London Ambulance Service attended and the female cyclist was treated for her injuries.

“At this early stage, the injuries are not life threatening.

“The lorry stopped at the scene.

“Enquiries into the circumstances continue.”

A spokeswoman for the London Ambulance Service said the woman was treated for a leg injury and taken as a priority to an east London hospital.

Whitechapel High Street has re-opened eastbound following the crash.

The right turn to Commercial Street remains blocked.