A 43-year-old lorry driver has been charged with causing death by careless driving in connection with a collision involving a lorry and cyclist Charlotte Landi in London last year.
Mrs Landi, aged 36 and a teacher at the Hampshire School in Chelsea, died in hospital on 27 September 2017 as a result of injuries sustained in the collision, which happened at the junction of Grosvenor Road and Chelsea Bridge.
The Metropolitan Police Service confirmed today that Jason Edmunds from North Crockerford, Basildon had been charged with causing death by careless driving.
Edmunds, who had been arrested at the scene on the day of the collision on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and subsequently released under investigation, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 19 October.
The fatal crash happened on the route of Cycle Superhighway 8, one of the first generation of such routes with a blue painted surface and no physical segregation to protect cyclists at that point.
Following Mrs Landi’s death, the campaign group Stop Killing Cyclists held a vigil and die-in in her memory outside Kensington & Chelsea Town Hall.
The group’s co-founder, Donnachadh McCarthy, said at the time: “She was a beautiful young woman just trying to go to work at her school.
“This junction needs to be protected but it’s being opposed at the consultation level in the boroughs,” he added.
The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea has opposed plans for segregated cycling infrastructure elsewhere within its boundaries.
The proposed segregated Cycle Superhighway 9 route from Brentford to Kensington Olympia will end at the borough’s western boundary rather than continuing for 2 kilometres eastwards along Kensington High Street.
That would have provided a link to the existing east west Cycle Superhighway 3, which runs along the southern side of Hyde Park before swinging north towards Bayswater Road close to the Royal Albert Hall
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Sorry. Budget is kinda useful Willing to part with 1000-1500
It appears that you could still be suffering that brain injury you seem to have self-diagnosed. You mean the one you say I didn't have?
TVP were in touch just before Xmas asking me what would be an appropriate charge - turns out he had 2 incidents in quick succession. ...
Apparently there is a consultation open for feedback on what payment scheme the commoners will get:...
Only if you can get the fares. Driving is earning, waiting does not.
Offering their thoughts and prayers, perchance? (I hope the cyclist came out of it in a better state than their bike...)
What's the chances then that the frames end up going through the same sub-contracted assembly centre, probably having originated at the same far...
Neat. It's even got somewhere to keep your contact lenses.
He admitted to all the charges you highlight before this tribunal began & there's no charge for lost/destroyed data from what I can see?...
I thought the primary position was the middle of the lane?