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This is the moment an E-bike rider knocks into a schoolboy crossing the road to get to a chaotic and confusing floating bus stop in London.

Footage shows the man cycling into the young boy dressed in school uniform as he stepped out near the crossing to access a bus stop in Elephant and Castle.

The pair collide and both of them fall onto the ground in the middle of the cycleway as people rush over to help.

Charities have repeatedly criticised floating bus stops, which have cycleways running behind the stops forming an island between them and the main road.

Charity the National Federation for the Blind who filmed the video wrote: We filmed at the Elephant & Castle Floating bus stop late last month.

The clip includes a rental e-bike rider crashing into a child. The floating bus stop designs are not safe & they need to be urgently halted please.

The pair collide and both of them fall onto the ground in the middle of the cycleway (Picture: Sarah Gayton/NFBUK/SWNS)The road design in this location means that the bus stop is floating between the road and the cycle lane(Picture: Sarah Gayton/NFBUK/SWNS)

The group has started a petition to ban the stops and has been signed by more than 270 organisations, including Age UK and Disability Rights UK.

Sarah Gayton, Street Access Campaign Coordinator at NFB said: I had only been there about an hour or so when this happened.

That poor little lad could have really hurt himself. And what was so shocking was that the cyclist got off and said, Is he deaf? I rang the bell.

As if that excuses it! Surely that just shows that people need to be aware of those who may be blind and deaf and may not notice bikes coming?

Bus users are expected to cross what is usually a small zebra crossing over the cycleway to get to the stop.

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What is a floating bus stop?

A floating bus stop has a cycle lane between the stop and the pavement behind it.

This places the stop on an island between the cycleway and traffic.

The London Assembly said this ensures passengers alight from a bus directly onto a bus stop island and never directly onto a cycle track or road with oncoming traffic.

They were first introduced in London in 2013 so cyclists were not stuck behind buses and were less at risk of being injured or killed.

There are 164 floating bus stops across 18 London boroughs.

A floating bus stop has a cycle lane between the stop and the pavement behind it (Picture: Getty Images)

Charities have said this design makes it unsafe particularly for those with vision problems.

The NFB slammed them as chaotic, confusing and dangerous places which are not safe or accessible for blind and visually impaired people to use independently.

Transport for London rejected a call to pause the installations of floating bus stops this week, with the Mayor of London saying very few collisions have occured between cyclists and pedestrians.

This is despite admitting in June more than a third of the capitals floating bus stops varied significantly from its best practice design.

Campaigners have called for floating bus stops to be scrapped (Picture: Sarah Gayton/NFBUK/SWNS)

But Sadiq Khan has said City Hall is actively working with disabled and accessibility groups to look at improvements to the design, as well as the behaviour of road users.

The floating bus stops are intended to allow cyclists to keep moving rather than being stuck behind buses.

He told the BBC they were installed as a disproportionate number of cyclists had been injured and killed as a consequence of buses.

But Ms Gayton said blind people are forced into an unsafe situaition, whereas cyclists can see and stop.

She said: Were calling for a redesign of cycle lanes around bus stops so the bus can pull up directly to the pavement so blind and visually impaired people can board the bus directly without having to cross or step into a cycle lane.

Blind people have fewer choices. Cyclists can see and stop. We want the floating bus stops and the shared use bus borders to be removed.

Transport for London has been contacted for comment.

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