Police have confirmed that a woman who was killed after being hit by a truck in south London yesterday was a cyclist.
The woman – who was in her 30s and believed to be Italian but who has not yet been formally identified – was hit at the junction of Lavender Hill and Elspeth Road in Wandsworth at around 8am.
Police officers, the London Ambulance Service and London’s Air Ambulance attended, but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police could not initially say whether the victim was a pedestrian or on a bicycle. One witness told the London Evening Standard that she had been crossing the road before the collision.
The driver, thought to work for a third-party contractor for British Gypsum, stopped following the collision. Police said no arrests have been made.
The cyclist is the sixth to die on London’s roads in 2016 and the third following a collision with a lorry.
Anyone with information can contact police on 0208 543 5157 or the police non-emergency line on 101.
9 thoughts on “London cyclist killed in HGV collision”
RIP.
RIP.
A friend saw this happen…..
A friend saw this happen….. don’t really want to say any more.
Poor lass and her family
That sinking feeling when the
That sinking feeling when the broken bike image appears on the front page of road.cc
Another life needlesly snuffed out. RIP.
Truck. Junction. The
Truck. Junction. The miserable story which keeps repeating itself.
Tragic waste of a life.
It’s a busy junction and not
It’s a busy junction and not a well designed one at that.
RIP
Moiz Amjad @moizamj Oct 24
Moiz Amjad @moizamj Oct 24
@Robinson_IP indeed. Although they’re saying it’s just a collision.
It’s ok people, it was just a collision.
Rip.
Rip.
I test drive a new Prius recently. It has sensors to activate the brakes if you’re going to hit something or someone. It’s a £20k car. The sensors and tech surely can’t be much more than 10-15% of that sum. Shocked that such systems aren’t mandatory on these limited visibility vehicles.
nadsta wrote:
My 2015 Skoda Fabia has that and, while I went for one of the upper models, that feature is present all the way down to the base models at ~£11-12k new. I agree they should be mandatory on limited visibility vehilces – in fact I’d go further to say they should be on all new vehicles, if they can economically be put on a car retailing for that amount there’s surely no argument for not doing it.
Stop Killing Cyclists are
Stop Killing Cyclists are planning a vigil on Monday evening.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1121391224645733/