A CYCLIST found unconscious after falling from his bike suffered head injuries so severe he can no longer remember the incident.

Police are now appealing for witnesses of the accident, which also left the 49-year-old cyclist with a broken wrist, to come forward. Officers do not know whether he was hit by a car or he fell from his bike.

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The cyclist, from Burnley, was found in Old Roman Road, off Whins Lane, Read, at around 5pm on Wednesday, September 17 and was taken to Royal Preston Hospital.

PC Derek Scott, from Colne’s Road Policing Unit, said officers were keen to speak to anyone who may have seen what happened.

He said: “Due to the severity of the impact to his head, the cyclist is unable to remember anything of the incident and we are appealing for witnesses to come forward with any information about what happened. I would urge anyone who may have seen anything at around the time of the incident or any vehicles which may have been involved to contact us.”

Memory loss, or amnesia, is often the result of a head injury, and can cause retrogade amnesia where sufferers forget what happened before the trauma, or anterograde amnesia when they forget everything that happened after the trauma.

Call police on 101, quoting log reference number LC-20141017-0327.