Quite a few in my time
but I used to be a courier in Central London and you tend to see stuff, accidents, crime etc. The most horrific was an accident on Clerkenwell Road just before Hatton Garden where a truck went over some young cyclist's head. I remember one of the Motorbike cops was shaking at the accident scene, it was so ghastly.

The first time was actually a crime, or murder to be blunt, on Great Titchfield Street. Basically some guy was stabbed whilst being mugged and stumbled as far as the entrance to a chemist where he promptly collapsed dead. Not that I knew at the time, it was just somebody lying in lots of blood. I felt pretty numb for the rest of the day.

Now strangely, a month or two later, when I had heard the entire grizzly details that he had been stabbed and was actually already dead when I saw him, I was heading down Great Titchfield Street again, the wrong way (it's one way) when this bloke burst out of a side street opposite the Chemist covered in loads of blood. I practically died there and then in the saddle of shock. Only when I looked up the side street and saw a film crew, did I realize it was Crime Watch acting out the murder, and I had ridden clean on to their set. They didn't look happy with me, so I rode off quickly.
( Jahled Three shades of black, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 16:14, 1 reply)

Re: Ghastly
A mate of mine was on the bus heading into work when they arrived at a particularly gruesome accident. A cyclist had been caught between two lorries on a narrow street. All my mate could see was "a mess of flesh, bone, blood and bike". He said most of the emergency crews were sitting on the pavement white as sheets with floods of puke in the gutter.
(Fanta Menace Is tall enough to see over the fence, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 17:11, closed)