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Terrible news. The LAS say the crash happened in Fitzroy Street, with the further conjecture 'near the junction with Maple Street' added in the article from an unknown source.
The collision is understood to have happened around 7.30am on Wednesday in Fitzroy Street, Fitzrovia, near the junction with Maple Street.'
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A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called at 7.41am to reports of a road traffic collision on Fitzroy Street.
As Fitzroy Street is the northern continuation of Charlotte Street, it may be that you're right and the junction was that of Howland Street, Charlotte Street, and Fitzroy Street. This is obviously 'near' the junction of Fitzroy Street and Maple Street. Perhaps this indicator of the location was only taken from the fact that the short video showing the police tape was filmed at that junction.
Whichever is correct, it would be good if you could edit the thread title to include the names of the streets that meet at the junction, and also include that it's a fatality. Thanks!
Most of the article is about general crash statistics rather than the collision, but someone does seem to have been near the scene and spoken to some people who were nearby.
It seems quite clear that the collision happened at the junction, whichever of the two possibilities it is, not 'near' the junction.
RIP as yet unidentified rider.
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Also:
It is believed to be the first death of a cyclist on London roads in 2023.
This is not correct--we know of at least one other death in 2023, sadly.
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/384113/
Given the parlous state of newspaper reporting of crashes, it may well be that there have been more that we just haven't heard about (but let's hope not).
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I only saw the scene from afar due to the cordon, but 100% sure that the tipper truck was stopped in the junction, mid-way through a left hand turn off Howland St and into Charlotte St. Definitely not the Fitzroy-Maple St junction.
It's a one way system, so the cyclist (and truck) would have very likely been going east-to-west on Howland St from Tottenham Court Road towards Cleveland St in the segregated cycle lane. HGVs are common along there due to all the building work and unfortunately the cycle land stops being segregated at each junction for this traffic to turn left across it.
At that junction you also get traffic crossing N-S from Fitzroy into Charlotte St and drivers trying to dart across there makes the whole junction is a clusterf*** to navigate even as a pedestrian.
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It's the left-hand turn immediately after this pedestrian crossing
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Many thanks, that makes it clearer.
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Rest in peace.
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A follow-up article with research on the lorry and the (unapproved) route the driver took after leaving a building site:
The man, who was said by the Met to be in his 20s but whose name has not been released, was believed to have been riding a Lime rental e-bike at the time he collided with a 32-tonne tipper truck that had exited Derwent’s Network Building site nearby.
The lorry driver had turned left from Howland Street into the northern end of Charlotte Street – a route not permitted in the “construction management plan” drawn up by the developer and the council as a condition of Derwent’s planning consent.
The approved route would have taken the driver straight across Howland Street into New Cavendish Street and eventually onto Marylebone Road.
It's still not quite clear in which direction the rider was travelling:
Police investigators have appealed for witnesses and motorists with dashcam video evidence to come forward.
It is thought that the cyclist was riding west along Howland Street – where there is a segregated cycle lane, though there is no separation at the junction with Charlotte Street.
However, there is a possibility that he was cycling north on Charlotte Street and was hit head-on by the turning vehicle.
I hope that they get good evidence and/or witnesses.
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Very hard reading that article in the ES
RIP
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RIP Rider. Thoughts to all those who knew and loved you.
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2023-05-24 Fatality at Junction of Howland Street and Charlotte St, Fitzrovia
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@adam1986
Looks to have been a serious incident at the junction of Howland Street and Charlotte St (near Tottenham Court Rd) earlier this morning.
I passed by at ~08:30am and a tipper truck turning left across the cycle lane into Charlotte St was abandoned in the junction with police/ambulance/fire service all in attendance. Police still have the area cordoned off now some 6 hours later so can only assume it's very serious.
Thoughts go out to the (presumed) rider and any relatives.