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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Radar tells me their closing speed, if they are slowing and how far away. Then I decide to say a prayer. The change of light pattern is incidental.
Quite so, which is why our village 20mph zone covers the whole residential extent. Of course, enforcement is another thing..
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No, that's very doubtful while proper testing would be fully destructive.
In that £1000 exactly scenario, beginners should probably be made aware that pedals will be extra.
What's wrong with dropping down on to the Millenium Bridge, or the swing bridge, then the brief, but satisfying climb back up the hill? #training....
The relatives might of course disagree, but in general I'd countenance a relatively light sentence* if only we could fix it so that those who...
Id forgotten that I got a second hand set of project two's for my getting to work bike over twenty years back.
My bet is that all these tires popping off are from people with bad pressure gauges or they're simply just putting too much air in on purpose. ...
David9694 - you were right! These new autonomous vehicles really are conspiring to run out of control!...