2009-06-02 - Rider Down - Peckham

Sad new once again. Fingers crossed...

There is a Lidle supermarket just behind there, possibly a delivery?

I agree with you, and we all feel that way, the accumulation of recent accidents is really worrying, this is awfull...

Loic

I work for the Lidl RDC when i was on the phone to our store in peckham at around 9-10am this morning they said there has been a horrible incident outside of there store involving a female cyclist and a lorry. It was shocking news and my thoughts go out to the cyclist and i hope she will be ok. I also cycle to work and i have to cycle past hundreds of lorries a day as where i am based it is all warehouses and its not nice i find lorry drivers dont care about other people on the road because they are in a large motor and us cyclists end up being pushed to the side.

God bless the cyclist.

thats a route i use a few times a week. it gets really mental around the bottle neck due to the frustration of the drivers. best wishes to the cyclist x

Peckham road is a crazy stretch, as I can personally testify from recent events. This sounds awful. That junction is really bad. Is there any news on those involved?

Anyone have any further news this morning?

Fingers are crossed.

All I have seen in the Evening Standard is "A cylist was seriously injured in a collision with a lorry in Peckham High Street. The lorry driver was arrested and questioned by police."

Dreadful news.

Used that little stretch of road a few times yesterday, first two journeys made little detours as the area was sealed off didn't really know what had happened until I got back to the forum.

Then on the way back into work at around 4:30ish a car did a really daft u-turn (just by Manze's) into myself and oncoming traffic and sped off.

Didn't think much of it until the exact same junction where this lady had her crash where the same car comes belting back up the road and then slams the anchors on last minute to career round the corner turning left straight across my path.

He was going too fast and misjudged his turning and didn't give himself time to act safely.

Worst thing was he had his little boy in the front with him and he's driving with reckless abandon.

If I had been a car driver I would have piled straight into the passenger side and it'd be a very different story.

Long and short of it is I was lucky but there are an awful lot of narky drivers getting funneled into a bottle neck, getting wound up and making silly judgements.

Thoughts go out to the lady cyclist and I hope she heals up fast

I just saw a near accident down my road that could have been fatal had the truck not pulled up for the tightness of the road he was turning into.

I popped down from my building to go buy biscuits at around quarter past 11 and walked the few meters to the intersection of Ferndale and Brixton high road. There was a massive flat-bed truck loaded with brick pallets and a mini-crane, there was a guy riding in the tight gap between the truck and the curb and he was level with the middle of the flat bed.
I saw the truck indicate but I'm not sure if the cyclist could of/was paying attention and the truck swung in sharply forcing the cyclist inwards to the curb.

Luckily the truck was forced to stop as it was too big to fit around the corner at the angle it was attempting to.

Had it been a wider road and I am convinced the back wheels would have rolled straight over this guy.

I don't think the driver even saw him and proceeded to trundle along on his merry way.

This and incidents like this must happen a hundred times a day and it is only good fortune or last-second yanking on the brakes and scrambling to the curb that are keeping the casualties down.

Judging the situation from the curbside I would have never put myself in that gap unless it was a very long road with no turns or had it been stationary traffic, which isn't for a second absolving the "indicate and turn" ignorance of the truck driver.

Stay safe.

it really is frightening, I saw something this morning simlar to what Ma3k discribes involving a bin lorry. the dude on the bike (ipod on full blast - he skipped a red very badly just a few seconds earlier, he really was not doing himself any favours) had no idea what he was doing and it is only becuase a few teenagers ran across the road stopping the bin men that nothing he didnt get squashed.

Our (apparent) cycle friendly mayor needs to grow a pair and sort this out. there are too many people getting hurt to ignore.

Fucking hell.

This forum is starting to be more threads about riders down than anything else. I'm really sorry to hear this, for everyone involved, cyclist, driver, families, etc. I hope they all heal up and are ok.

Are ghost bikes still going up in London?

I went past this morning and there was a bunch flowers attached to the railings where it happened.

I don't think it necessarily means anything though, it could just have been a concerned citizen.

I went past this morning and there was a bunch flowers attached to the railings where it happened.

I don't think it necessarily means anything though, it could just have been a concerned citizen.

not a good sign though. how terribly sad.

by the way, when I say a bunch I mean a single bunch.. I might pop over and have a look later on to see what it says (if anything) on them.

Apparently this was a fatality. So very sad. It seems she passed away at the scene, this info comes from someone who was told by a police officer at neighbourhood meeting in Peckham. Trying to find confirmation.

My thoughts and best wishes are with the family and friends of the rider.

This is all so, so sad. Thoughts with the cyclist's family.

I just popped down to see the flowers and they are dedicated to the death of the cyclist. The person who left them doesn't know the woman who died but felt compelled to leave them.

Terrible news and my heart goes out to the cyclist's friends and family.

Oh no, i always hope when i read these threads that the person pulls through. This is such sad and bad news. My thoughts go out to her family and friends.

RIP

My thoughts go out to the family & friends of the rider. x

Shit, it's becoming a weekly occurence. Thoughts to friends and family

RIP

:-(

That's terrible, terrible news. My thoughts go out to her family and friends.

Sad news.
RIP

Once again, I extend my condolences.

I really hoped this wouldn't be another one.
My thoughts are with her family and friends.

why does it have to be like this?

dear cyclist RIP