Nerve-shredding moment tree almost crushed London cyclist (VIDEO)

A city cyclist miraculously escaped being beheaded by a falling tree after a routine London street felling went disastrously wrong. Footage of the alarming incident has shocked viewers on social media.

Caught on camera by a passerby, the incident on London’s Adelaide Road appears to show a clumsy attempt at chopping down a tree with the workman responsible for taking down the giant trunk inadvertently sending it flying onto a busy road.

“[It sent] shivers down my spine,” wrote one commenter. “There is no traffic control, the tree is sitting back, no wedges that I can see. Glad no one was hurt.”

Another person added: “How was that road not cordoned off?”

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