A man has been charged over the death of cyclist Victor Ben Rodriguez in London last April.
John Green, 53, from Wickford, Essex was today charged with causing death by careless driving and will appear on bail at City of London Magistrates on the 12 February, a City of London Police spokesman said.
Victor Ben Rodriguez was involved in a collision with a tipper truck on Ludgate Circus on April 3, 2014, shortly before 10:00am.
London Ambulance Service pronounced the 32 year old from Spain dead at the scene.
Mr Rodriguez had come to London from Spain to learn English. He was on his way to a job interview when the collision occurred.
He was the first of two cyclists to die as a result of crashes at Ludgate Circus in 2014. On October 20 Janina Gehlau died after being crushed by a tipper truck on October 17.
Ludgate Circus is earmarked for improvement as part of the north-south 'Cycle Superhighway' recently given the go-ahead by London mayor Boris Johnson.
Cycling campaigners have pointed out that the planned segregation of cycling and motor vehicle use at this junction would make collisions such as these virtually impossible,
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Condolences to Mr Rodriguez’s
Condolences to Mr Rodriguez’s family on their loss, but one would think that a cycling website would get facts right, he wasn’t in a collision with a tipper truck, he was killed as the result of the collision between a tipper truck DRIVEN BY JOHN GREE and Mr Rodriguez, the tipper truck was not driverless. The police’s decision to charge Mr Green indicates that he was the one who collided with Mr Rodriguez and not vice versa. Bad reporting like this only helps to vindicate bad driving by some motorists and support the excuse that there was an accident when it was nothing of the sort. X( X( X( X(
“Killer junction scheduled
“Killer junction scheduled for rebuild ”
So the junction’s going up in front of the beak too then?
Sort it out RoadCC, junctions don’t kill, drivers do. In the same way as roads aren’t dangerous but drivers are.
Sloppy use of phrases such as these, for journalistic effect, are dangerous as they engender a belief that somehow the driver is less to blame (and even blameless) coz it was the road wot did it! X(
Good to see a
Good to see a prosecution.
Gutting for the family to have to wait 9 months to even find out if there’s a chance for justice.
RIP.
The tide seems to be
The tide seems to be turning.
D.E.P.