A cyclist slammed into the side of a turning car in Bell St yesterday after it appears his brakes failed.
"He's come screaming down that hill and the car's turned in front of him and he hasn't been able to stop," Constable Vaughan Patching said.
"His brakes ... they weren't working. They were faulty when we looked at the bike."
It was unclear whether the brakes had been faulty before the accident or as a result of it.
The cyclist was riding on the footpath down Guyton St towards Bell, while the car was heading the same direction. When the car turned left on to Bell St, the cyclist was unable to avoid hitting the side of it.