Doctor to the Queen is named as cyclist killed after being hit by lorry on central London road just seconds from his work

A cyclist who died after being hit by a lorry during his morning commute was a doctor to the Queen, it has been revealed.

Bystanders battled in vain to save Dr Peter Fisher following the collision on Wednesday morning, seconds from where he worked as a director of research at the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine. 

Eyewitnesses revealed how medics desperately gave the 67-year-old CPR both before and after he was pulled from under the wheel of the Travis Perkins lorry.

The homeopathic physician served the Queen for almost 15 years as a member of the royal medical household, and it is understood Her Majesty has been informed.

He has become the eighth cyclist to be killed in London this year and the fifth to die during a collision with a lorry.

Angie Bozianu, 29, manager of the Princess Louise pub, said: 'I was sleeping and I heard screaming - a lady was screaming and it wasn't good.

'The second I looked out of my window I saw a man under the wheel. He wasn't moving. The wheel was over his side.

'People were gathering around him, they tried to give him first aid and CPR and between five and 10 minutes later the ambulance came.

'They tried to CPR and managed to pull him out and again gave him CPR for half an hour or maybe more

'I looked away, but when I looked back he was on the side, covered. I've never seen him before, I assumed he was on his day off - he was in a t-shirt and shorts. 

Floral tributes, a wellwisher's letter and candles have also been placed at the scene in Holborn, central London.

The envelope to a handwritten letter laid on top of flowers attached to a crossing near where he died read: 'To: Someone I do not know but I am sure was a unique person.'

Ms Bozianu, originally from Romania, said: 'I couldn't see his bike - only afterwards a police officer told me he was a cyclist. I hadn't seen the bike, so it was probably underneath the lorry.





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