2009-04-09 - Rider Down/Fatality, Goswell Rd and Clerkenwell/Old St

Right turning vans and HGVs heading down towards Barbican are a nightmare on this junction.

I used to ride that junction twice a day on my commute and before the roadworks it was a nightmare!
God bless to whoever it was fell victim this time.

Dark day, ride safe peeps..

so terrible. This is happening SO frequently. When is there going to be a high profile campaign to educate cyclists and drivers? They spend a fortune encouraging people to cycle.....

sad news

Not again, terrible news.
My thoughts are with the family.

Great Idea teenslain, something has to be done to get peoples attention. It seems the number fatalities with lorries are not enough on their own.

Take care people.

i go through there many times a day at work always bad. my sympathy to her family.rip

Man, thats terrible, sent shivers down my spine, RIP

Tragic news.

R.I.P

terrible times
RIP

Awful, sad news. My thoughts are with the family.

What can we do? A memorial/protest ride sounds like a good idea; could we get press/media involvement? Trying to think of folk I know in TV/radio news- any coverage to get the message out there that something's got to be done.

This can't keep happening...

It's another left filtering cycle lane and ASL combo :(

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?near=goswell+road+london&q=old+street+goswell+road&f=p&rl=1&ie=UTF8&ll=51.523511,-0.09789&spn=0,359.972363&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.523409,-0.09862&panoid=D3oOALVDPWgLVXvoiSopfg&cbp=12,236.91772113955693,,0,7.375776397515528

Isn't that the approach from Clerkenwell? If it's a left turn from Old Street onto Goswell, I think it's this side of the junction:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?near=goswell+road+london&q=old+street+goswell+road&f=p&rl=1&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=51.523225,-0.098382&panoid=TUMJrzexEvCL182LDSFnLA&cbp=12,62.98810237122833,,0,8.827389300741325&ll=51.523297,-0.098491&spn=0,359.970732&z=15

Terrible news :( Went through there just the other day. Since reading the various postings on here about lorries I am sh1t scared of them and try to avoid being anywhere near them at junctions.

Terrible news again. Life on a bike in London shouldn't be this fragile...

so terrible. This is happening SO frequently. When is there going to be a high profile campaign to educate cyclists and drivers? They spend a fortune encouraging people to cycle.....

Shit, this sounds awful. Deepest sympathies to all. And RIP.

I'm beginning to really dread this thread appearing now.

So, I'm up for creating this education campaign. With Cycleschemes being promoted throughout various businesses now as a tax free benefit, more bikes are coming onto the streets. I'm all for that - more bikes, more people, more awareness - but I'm also up for educating new cyclists. I'm doing something like this for the 7 new cyclists lured in by a company bike scheme here where I work. Before they bought their bikes, I'd send threads like these to highlight that riding in London isn't a walk in the park. Now they have a more than healthy respect for what they are about to embark on.

Anyway, I digress. I'm up for being part of a 'bike school' which is made up of volunteers 'teaching' people the 'how to avoid...' scenarios many of us face on a basis. Not sure about how to create it or whether any one would actually come to it, but feel its time to 'be the change you want to see'.

I know that many of these scenarios include unpredicatable, fast moving, metal objects - but forewarned is forearmed. And I'm up for forewarning before these threads become a daily ocurrence.

This is fucked. More needs to be done to make cyclists *and *drivers aware of these situations - I mean a *major *campaign. They're busy promoting motorcyclist safety and drink driving and we get totally overlooked. What a fucking horrible way to die. RIP.

RIP ride safe people. It was only a week or so ago that guy got killed out Gerard's Cross way.

Tragic, RIP.

The exact same thing happend at Northend Road/Talgarth Road junction about a year ago. Female cyclist went up the inside of a truck when it was turning left. She ended up under the back wheel.

This is absolutely terrible. I cant believe it. London needs to be HGV-rush-hour-free now.

Not again????? R.I.P. Condolences to her family.

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/

I will set one up if i have time today, but someone with more experience/statistics/involvement in the HGV campaign may be able to create a rather more informed prose.

We can fire off to all our email lists and request the recipients do the same.

I think we'll need a discussion and forum consensus on the best thing to petition for. And, of course, we need a round-up of accidents to offer as evidence. I'm not quite sure where all that information exists.

It might also be worth lobbying the road safety peeps to stick this on their agenda, cuz a well placed advert would work wonders I'd say.

may have been covered already in another thread but...

a woman cyclist was crushed to death by a lorry yesterday afternoon at Elephant and Castle roundabout... photograph of the scene in today's Standard. She and the lorry were turning left at the same time.

Horrific

*Resquiat in Pace
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Ride safe

is terrible to have accidents like this happening so often. I feel sick.
i pass almost every morning down there. I tend to stay always in the center of the lane but there is a column of cyclists filtering on the left.
If we want to promote some kind of action I'm ready to put in my time and my skills.

rest in peace.

I don't have much faith in no 10 petitions. There was one on this subject a few months ago, submitted by Cycle Plus magazine. When it finished there was a statement from the Department for Transport, saying that they had done all that they could and that they were constrained by the European Commission. Neither of those statements are true.

We had a miserable meeting with the Minister for Road Safety (and Lorry tech stuff) last year. We are due to meet him again in a few weeks and will be pressing him to actually do something. I have also emailed Emily Thornberry MP, who has campaigned on this issue consistently and who is the MP for Islington South where today's crash happened.

I say we get a couple of hundred of us down to the junction in the middle of the night, chain all the bikes together 5 deep in a circle and sit in the middle of it. That might attract some attention.