No More Lethal Lorries - Petition

Obviously. It seems you folks in London have the worst of it, don't know if it's sheer volume of traffic or just an overload of inconsiderate hgv drivers?

It's several factors. Many of the fatal crashes have involved tipper lorries moving spoil from large building sites, e.g. around the time of the building of the 'Shard' there were three or four fatalities of cyclists around Tower Bridge Road. (I can't remember the exact number, or whether all of those were Shard-related.) As far as I know, there have been none there since that finished, despite London Bridge Station having a major refurbishment now. For a while, we had constant Olympic-related lorry traffic through some very narrow streets in Hackney, too. These schedules involve fleets of lorries operated to very exacting timetables, which increases risk, and management of risk away from building sites has much to catch up on compared to management of risk on-site.

Extremely obvious factors are simply London's size and complexity. The overall percentage of fatalities and serious injuries compared to the volume of riders and overall road traffic has actually been going down, slowly but surely, over the last two decades or so, but the lorry factor has remained quite high, e.g. considering the amount of development that's been going on.

I imagine, taking characters like Dennis Putz as evidence, that there are also a good few cowboy operators who will employ drivers without asking too many questions, but I don't know if that factor is different anywhere else.