Third Cyclist killed in London this week

[ozboz]

More horrific news , he was wearing PPe , no mention of lights,

The victim in his 30s was dragged at least 20 yards beneath the lorry’s wheels before the driver was alerted by oncoming motorists to the mountain bike tangled in his front wheel, witnesses said.

A passing bus driver pulled up and attempted to save the man but when paramedics arrived in London’s Docklands at 1.30pm yesterday he was pronounced dead.

 

[numbnuts]

Very sad news indeed, RIP condolences to family and friends

 

[Rooster1]

He didn't stand a chance against a huge lorry like that. Horrendous. RIP.

 

[Saluki]

Another tipper truck!
RIP chap.

 

[Globalti]

It's awful. How many cyclists are killed in, say, Copenhagen in a year?

 

[markharry66]

Rip what a waste

 

[snorri]

It's awful. How many cyclists are killed in, say, Copenhagen in a year?

Wot no Search Engine access?
252 in 1996.
0.3 average over the last 5 years.
https://ig.ft.com/sites/urban-cycling/

 

[rualexander]

Wot no Search Engine access?
252 in 1996.
0.3 average over the last 5 years.
https://ig.ft.com/sites/urban-cycling/

Wot, no accuracy?

Your 0.3 average is per 10,000 daily commuters over 5 years, according to the article you linked.
Your 252 in 1996 is not number killed, but number of incidents according to wikipedia

From Wiki: "Over all there were 92 cyclists involved serious injury and 3 deaths in 2010, down from 252 incidents in 1996, when the city began a concerted effort to bring down the number of injuries. A cyclist will now on average cycle 4.4 million kilometres (2.7 million miles) before being involved in a serious accident"

 

[Drago]

Witnesses on TV news saying the feller slipped off on the film of mud on the road and went under. And how did the mud get on the road at that point? From the wheels of the tipper trucks is how.

*If* that is correct then the transport manager ought to be prosecuted. Its an offence, and shows a blatant disregard for the safety of others.

 

[ozboz]

Witnesses on TV news saying the feller slipped off on the film of mud on the road and went under. And how did the mud get on the road at that point? From the wheels of the tipper trucks is how.

*If* that is correct then the transport manager ought to be prosecuted. Its an offence, and shows a blatant disregard for the safety of others.

Thats bad , real bad ,

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Witnesses on TV news saying the feller slipped off on the film of mud on the road and went under. And how did the mud get on the road at that point? From the wheels of the tipper trucks is how.

*If* that is correct then the transport manager ought to be prosecuted. Its an offence, and shows a blatant disregard for the safety of others.

Except, if the report that drivers in other vehicles alerted the truck driver to the bike under the front of his cab is correct, it wasn't muck from his truck. It was the muck of an industry that is allowed to drive vehicles unsuitable for safe public road use with atrociously poor law enforcement or monitoring dirtying the road before the cyclist and Primagrange truck came along. (I know this road; speeding is normal - it's almost dangerous to stick to 30 - industrial use is pretty much constant (there's always someone carrying muck around or building stuff there.) It's not the Primagrange transport manager's responsibility for the accident. But it is the responsibility of the combined construction trade and the abnegation of law enforcement duty who leave the muck and let them get away with it. Coroner's verdict will be accidental death, because the coroner's job is to look into the specifics of that particular tragedy.

 

[Drago]

Indeed, *if* the TV reports are correct the driver of this particular truck may be blameless.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Indeed, *if* the TV reports are correct the driver of this particular truck may be blameless.

Blameless, perhaps, but he was still driving a truck that doesn't even allow him to see that he's just killed someone, and the probability is that the cyclist's loss of control was due to the same industry's don't-give-a-damnistry. The driver would, of course, have recently left a worksite proudly displaying its ''Considerate constructors'' notice.

 

[Slick]

Really sad, Rip.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Horrible news.