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That section of road is horrifyingly dangerous. That’s the third fatality there in the last 6 months I think.
It needs a long overdue redesign.
andyp-
Yes, one of London's more objectionable attempts at 'let's build this up into something as close to an urban motorway as possible'. Rubbish design all over. I go through there quite often, don't really have any problems (I mainly do Greenwich High Road-A2-Brookmill Road-Friendly Street, where the main irritant is the stupid design of the Brookmill Road junction), but the severance alone that it causes must be terrible.
There has been at least one cyclist fatality there, I think, probably more. I can mainly remember one. We have two threads from there:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/172534/
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/174806/I can't remember when the fatality was, it may have been pre-'Rider Down' or even pre-LFGSS.
Oliver Schick
A very rare crash in which a driver died and not the pedestrian. From the picture it looks as if the car hit a wall, but it's not clear what happened. The driver may have tried to take evasive action and lost control, or had already lost control when he hit the woman and merely continued on his trajectory so that he hit the wall, if my reading of the picture is correct.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/deptford-crash-man-dies-and-woman-injured-in-collision-in-southeast-london-a3673001.html