Revealed: Lime Bike user who smashed taxi's back window with his HEAD is pro cricketer who went on to play the game of his life

See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Published: 11:57 EDT, 19 September 2026 | Updated: 13:28 EDT, 19 September 2026 A Lime Bike user who smashed a taxi's back window with his head is a pro cricketer who went on to play the game of his life.Luke Hollman's crash on the streets of central London went viral last month, and left him with a Harry Potter-esque scar on his forehead.The clip sees one cyclist suddenly dismounting at the kerb, forcing a black cab to stop quickly.A split second later, a second cyclist - Mr Hollman - goes flying through the taxi's window without a helmet after being unsighted and failing to react in time.He can be seen picking himself up and stumbling towards the pavement - before the camera pans to show a passerby putting a hand over her mouth in astonishment. For an accident that left Mr Hollman with blood all over his face and bystanders scrambling to see if the Lime Bike user was OK, the cyclist recovered remarkably quickly.Indeed, less than four weeks later, he was playing a starring role, scoring 83 not out in Middlesex's triumph over Ben Stokes's Durham in the semi-final of the MetroBank One Day Cup.The crash victim has now been pictured for the first time - just one day before he aims to go one step further and help his boyhood county to a win in their first One Day Cup final since 1990, against Leicestershire on Sunday. A Lime Bike user who smashed a taxi's back window with his head, pictured, is a pro cricketer who went on to play the game of his life Luke Hollman, pictured with a scar on his forehead from the crash, went on to score runs and take wickets in a crucial One Day Cup semi-final just weeks laterThe day before the incident on London's Euston Road, Mr Hollman had smashed 40 runs and taken three wickets in a memorable all-round display to beat Essex.But hours later, as he lay in a heap on one of the busiest streets in the capital, he might have expected his fruitful season to be over.The cricketer had been heading from his home in Queen's Park to King's Cross to meet two friends on a day off. He described how it took him some moments to recognise the severity of the crash, which could have been even worse had he been travelling faster.'I put my hand to my head and realised there was a bit of blood, so thought I would park the bike, look at my face in my phone camera and tell the guys I'm meeting I might be a bit late,' he told the Telegraph.'I put my hand down again and there was a huge stream of blood. A couple of members of the public looked after me, luckily one had an emergency first-aid pack, so football style had my head wrapped.'Even as he sat in a hospital bed after the first cyclist called an ambulance, Mr Hollman thought that everyone was overreacting - and called his team's physio to declare his availability for a match against Hampshire two days later. For an accident that left Mr Hollman with blood all over his face and bystanders scrambling to see if the Lime Bike user was okay, the cyclist recovered remarkably quicklyThe cricketer, in fact, had a five-inch laceration running down his forehead with part of his skull exposed, and he needed to have 35 stitches, three layers deep, to fix up the nasty wound.A concussion ruled him out of action for the following weeks, but a CT scan thankfully ruled out any skull fracture.Mr Hollman was back in training just 17 days later, with Middlesex keeping the details surrounding his absence a secret. Once a regular helmetless user of London's oft spotted Lime Bikes, the sportsman now makes sure he covers his head and advises others to do the same.