A cyclist has died after being involved in a collision with a lorry in North London this morning.
A police spokesman said:
Police were called to Amhurst Park, N16 at 08:00 today, Tuesday 20 January, following reports of a road traffic collision.
Officers and London Ambulance Service attended the scene and found a female cyclist suffering from critical injuries following a collision with a lorry.
The cyclist – believed to be in her thirties – died at the scene a short while later.
Police are in the process of informing next of kin.
The driver of the lorry stopped at the scene.
Anyone with information about the collision should call 101.
A London Ambulance Service spokesman said:
We were called at 8am this morning to reports of a road traffic collision involving a bike at the junction of Bethune Road and Amhurst Park in N16.
We sent an ambulance crew and two duty officers to the scene.
Sadly, the patient was dead at the scene.
This is believed to be the 14th cycling fatality in Great Britain so far this year, and the first in Greater London.
@ShomrimOfficial tweeted this picture of the scene:
A107Amhurst Park #N16 closed in both directions between Seven Sisters Road & Bethune Road, due to a serious collision pic.twitter.com/c9kLQrZ1LP
— Shomrim N.E. London (@ShomrimOfficial) January 20, 2015
Steven Kealy observed:
Passing by the site now – a tipper truck with its hazards on is pulled over by the blue forensics tent and crushed bike.
— steven kealey (@cyclingalong) January 20, 2015
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Another tipper truck linked
Another tipper truck linked to a cycling fatality – very sad to hear these are continuing.
Following the very sad news
Following the very sad news of the death of a cyclist this morning near Bethune Road, Hackney, at the junction with Amhurst Park, and Seven Sisters Road, London N16, there will be a Vigil and Die-In at this spot next MONDAY 26th JANUARY, meeting from 6pm for Die-In and Vigil at 6.30pm.
We ask as many of you as possible to attend and to remember our fellow cyclist as well as highlighting the need for space and decent infrastructure for cyclists.
Please would you share this post as much as possible. We will be contacting local and national media, local politicians and liaising with other cycle groups.
If anyone knew the victim and would like to take part in the vigil, you would be very welcome. But we also respect the privacy of family and friends if they do not wish to take part.
Andrew D Smith will be leading a flash ride leaving from Ludgate circus at 17:30, route up Farringdon Road, Rosebery Avenue, Angel, Highbury & Islington station, Highbury Grove, Manor Road, Bethune Road. Look for a big bloke in pink fluorescent bib. Looks like about 45 mins ride.
The organising committee of Stop Killing Cyclists.
Another woman cyclist killed
Another woman cyclist killed by a tipper truck. Awful. RIP.
If you are cycling and see a tipper truck or such similar 8 wheeler truck approaching you then shit yourself, get off the road asap as these vehicles are killers. Aka the Grim Tipper.
Do not go up the inside. No indication this woman did, but don’t. Get a mirror to see what’s coming up behind or in your blind spot. Be safe.
Terrible news, such a
Terrible news, such a beautiful morning for cycling too.
RIP.
RIP.
RIP.
From the Standard:
“A truck
From the Standard:
“A truck driver interviewed by police at the scene who was driving behind the lorry and cyclist as they travelled down Seven Sisters Road towards Manor House said the collision happened as they both turned left into Amhurst Park.
The scaffolder, who wished not to be named, said: “We were behind and it was turning left and she was on the inside and was dragged under the lorry.
“She was just cycling and the lorry as it turned left while she was on the inside it hit her as she was next to it where the traffic lights are as you turn. So it didn’t hit her from behind it was while she was next to it.
“It was like a traffic jam about only 4 or 5mph rolling traffic but it dragged her under.
“The bike was badly damaged and she wasn’t moving.””
Lorries need to be sorted out
Lorries need to be sorted out with sensors and/or cameras on the inside left, or at the very least make those rails compulsory which stop people being dragged under. It’s so stupid that we continue to let this happen, you can spend all the money you want trying to make cycle lanes etc but you can’t cover all junctions in London. Also, education for cyclists and lorry drivers needs to be ramped up.
sean evans wrote:Lorries need
In what way would the the cyclist have benefitted from education in this instance? According to the driver behind she was cycling and the lorry overtook her and turned left. ie the left hook.
I know it’s become a common thing on the BBC to always find a balancing point of view even if there isn’t one and they have to find a lunatic for the sake of it. But according to the lorry driver behind it was pretty clear that the person at fault was the driver of the tipper truck. The poor lady involved could have had a masters degree in cycling safety but it doesn’t protect you from people in 32 tonne trucks driving over you. Even in riding in the lane doesn’t stop them just driving over you as per last year in London.
oozaverd, what your saying I
oozaverd, what your saying I think is the situation, but if you read the quote it doesn’t say the lorry was overtaking, it says slow moving traffic and the victim was on the inside.
It could be that she undertook, that she was being overtaken, it isn’t clear.
To drive a heavy vehicle
To drive a heavy vehicle safely in any urban area you have to assume that something has snuck up the inside and check before you turn left.
I used to stand up in my seat to get better look in the mirrors down by the front wheel before I turned.
I am incredulous that “I didn’t see” is an excuse. I was taught that if cant see don’t move the vehicle, and to pull my self up in the seat to get a different angle in the mirrors.
Rigid vehicles don’t really have blind spots like articulated vehicles do.
fernlyn wrote:I am
So are we. The standard used in court is not reasonable, as it assumes incompetent driving is ‘of a reasonable standard’.
jacknorell wrote:fernlyn
Courts – and the wider populace – should be able to differentiate between malice and mistakes/negligence. Malice (e.g. running someone off the road because they are “holding you up”) should be prosecuted as murder, mistakes/negligence (not looking properly, driving with steamed up windows, coming around a blind corner too quickly) as manslaughter.
The guy who knocked me off didn’t go out trying to kill a cyclist, he was just driving to work. But he made a mistake – a mistake I’ve made many times myself – and didn’t look well enough when approaching the roundabout. It sounds like this truck driver didn’t look well enough; it also sounds as if the cyclist was somewhere she shouldn’t have been. But as someone said above: if you aren’t sure, you don’t move the vehicle.
Why is it pretty much always
Why is it pretty much always these fucking tipper trucks that are so dangerous, the big killers on the roads? They must proportionately kill and seriously injure a lot more people than any other type of vehicle? You hardly ever or never see an M&S or Sainsbury’s logo’d truck having run down or squashed a cyclist? What the fuck are these morons being taught when they get behind the wheel of a tipper truck or 8 wheeler? Very little to do with road safety it seems to me as so many of them have been responsible for the deaths of so many cyclists. e.g. Denis Putz a case in point. This segment of the heavy goods aggregate industry needs to pull their fingers out their arses and train their drivers to drive a lot more cautiously, stop killing people! I had one tail gate me in my car last week literally 5-6 feet from my rear bumper. I only drive a small flimsy car. It was terrifying. Then he tried to drive into me as he tried to overtake me and run me off the road in a residential 30mph zone and I was driving at smack on 30mph. Bastards. Tipper skip drivers are the worst truck drivers, scum of the earth IME. They do not give a monkeys who or what they drive over.
I think at the moment its too
I think at the moment its too ambiguous to say what happened in this particular instance, was she where she should not have been or was she placed there by a lorry coming up alongside…what is not ambiguous is the absence of infrastructure that could have made this situation impossible.
Money comes before lives once again.
Meantime 2 women are injured
Meantime 2 women are injured by falling scaffolding near Liverpool St. Unless the police know more than we do, that seems like negligence rather than malice. Nonetheless, a man’s arrested for GBH. Vehicles are truly the sensible weapon of choice.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-30898299
Magic plastic pedestrian
Magic plastic pedestrian helmets may have helped those women…
Probably as effective against falling scaffolding poles as they are against trucks
Magic plastic pedestrian
Magic plastic pedestrian helmets may have helped those women…
Probably as effective against falling scaffolding poles as they are against trucks
Another incredibly sad tale –
Another incredibly sad tale – it’s easy for us to sit at home and speculate over who did what.
ALL of us need to just take a bit more care and take that moment to look at thwat is going on around us, be they cyclist, pedestrian or driver. Please take that extra moment, especially with winter upon us and drivers visibility is that much more restricted.
Donkey Kong wrote:ALL of us
You know, only drivers kill other people, so why should they not be required to drive more carefully and slowly if their vision is more restricted?
Also, why is it more restricted? There’s no need for it to be more so than any other time of year.
This equivalency thing is a strawman and does nothing to address what’s dangerous.
My condolences to her family
My condolences to her family and loved ones. May she rest in peace.
I’m not going to get into a debate about who’s to blame, I see little point. I just hope something gets done soon to put an end to these “accidents” I keep reading about.
My dad taught me many years
My dad taught me many years ago when I first started to ride a bike – if they haven’t seen you, then they haven’t seen you. People (ie everyone) need to be aware of what is going on around them rather than directly in front of them….
if she was overtaken by the
if she was overtaken by the truck then he should have been aware she was there. If she snuck up on his inside then she should have seen his indicators and would have either sped up or slowed down. We know too little about the case at this point to pass judgement, let the cops (as useless as they are) collect the evidence and it goes from there.
Whatever the circumstances of
Whatever the circumstances of how the cyclist end up in the position she did the recent court cases would suggest that all the driver has to do is say “I didn’t see her” and he’ll be given his keys back and sent on his way by the juryer full of motorist. X(
I feel sick for her and her family, RIP