London's roads claimed their twelfth cyclist's life of the year when a 57-year-old man died after being hit by a car in Aldgate in Saturday.
The man, whose name has not yet been released, was involved in a collision with a silver Toyota Yaris on Leman Street around 7am.
He was taken to hospital, but died of his injuries on Sunday.
The 46-year-old driver was arrested at the scene and has been bailed until February.
The victim's next of kin have been informed; a post-mortem will be performed.
A local shopkeeper told Anna Dubuis of the Evening Standard: “The whole street was cordoned off and there were a lot of police around.
“There was one car that was parked in the middle of the road that I think was involved in the accident. The man had already been taken to hospital but there was a pair of shoes left in the road and a bike on the pavement.
“It is very quiet around here at 7am, there aren’t many cars around.”
2 thoughts on “Cyclist dead after crash in East London at weekend”
RIP, and thoughts with the
RIP, and thoughts with the family.
Thats the main route on to the CS3 from the aldgate/city area, I use it all the time.
It’s one way with 2 lanes of traffic and the right hand lane turning into a sliproad towards the end. I rarely have trouble with other traffic but a number of times I’ve been passed closely by cars at speed on this road. You have to take the lane as there are cars parked on the inside and there’s no room whatsoever for cars to pass you in the same lane safely.
Obviously I’ve no idea what happened here and at that time I would’ve thought it’d be empty unlike when I use it.
As has been said RIP we don’t
As has been said RIP we don’t know what’s happened and clearly will only get once side.
Even out in the edge of London, 7am still has a fair amount of traffic, busy even at times, it’s quieter at 6am but not empty.