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London cyclist killed in lorry crash in Hammersmith & FulhamCharleville Road via Google Street View

London cyclist killed in lorry crash in Hammersmith & Fulham

Fatal crash happened near West Kensington Underground Station
by Simon_MacMichael
UPDATED Fri, Dec 16, 2022 00:41

First Published Dec 15, 2022

Updated to correct the location as being within the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham rather than the Royal Borough of Kensingtion & Chelsea as originally reported.

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A London cyclist has been killed in a collision involving a lorry in the Royal Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham today.

The fatal crash happened at around 3.20pm on Charleville Road close to its junction with North End Road and near West Kensington Underground station, reports MyLondon.

The Metropolitan Police Service confirmed that despite the London Ambulance Service and London’s Air Ambulance rushing to the location, the male victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police have asked that anyone who witnessed the incident or has footage should call them on 101 or get in touch with @MetCC on Twitter, quoting reference 4129/15DEC.

The victim is the seventh cyclist to have been killed on the capital’s roads this year.

The mainly residential road the crash took place on runs between Queen’s Club and North End Road and lies within the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham.

Please note that an earlier version of this story incorrectly gave the location as being within the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, the western boundary of which lies around 250 metres to the east. We apologise for the error.

 

Collision with HGV
Kensington & Chelsea
Simon MacMichael

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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joe9090 | 2 years ago
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“I told them to hurry he was going to die. It was really terrible. There were lots of people trying to help him.”

She added: “The lorry driver said he didn’t see him at all but the truck was so big.

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mattw | 2 years ago
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Very sad news.

Stated location is a transition into a 20mph zone, which has some but minimal traffic calming therein.

Streetview looks quite old though: https://tinyurl.com/49tpjmb7

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Rendel Harris | 2 years ago
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RIP. It is absolutely beyond me how those who say central London is too cramped and haphazard to accomodate cycle infrastructure think it's also roomy enough to accomodate HGVs. It just isn't, a total rethink involving out-of-town depots, EV van transfers and hopefully "last mile" cargo bike deliveries is required. For goods that can't be transferred any other way strict restrictions are needed, including a ban on HGVs at rush hour and school times.

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RoubaixCube replied to Rendel Harris | 2 years ago
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If my memory serves me correctly. The local council or Khan did consider doing the same as Germany/NL and ban HGVs rolling through the city during the day a few years ago. I think the debate was triggered by the death of cyclist that had unfortunately lost their life on the holborn gyratory. 

Though not really surprising. Just talking about it and doing something about it are two different things but at least the gyratory is having a redesign after so many tragic incidents.

Having commuted to work back and forth in london - even passing through the holborn gyratory regularly since 2015. I consider myself very lucky to still be around though I have had my fair share of hairy moments with SMIDSY's

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Rendel Harris replied to RoubaixCube | 2 years ago
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RoubaixCube wrote:

If my memory serves me correctly. The local council or Khan did consider doing the same as Germany/NL and ban HGVs rolling through the city during the day a few years ago. I think the debate was triggered by the death of cyclist that had unfortunately lost their life on the holborn gyratory. 

Yes, the Assembly voted unanimously for a rush hour ban:

https://road.cc/content/news/170531-london-assembly-votes-unanimously-ru...

but when Khan became Mayor it got watered down into banning the most dangerous lorries, providing more cycleways and redesigning junctions, all welcome of course but not enough. The building lobby is tremendously powerful in London and I believe it's their influence, and the knowledge that they have bottomless pits of Qatari and other funds to launch legal challenges, that has been instrumental in not implementing a full ban.

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Dnnnnnn replied to Rendel Harris | 2 years ago
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I think planning conditions can dictate when building work, including transport to/from site, takes place - would be interesting to know how it's applied.

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