Person down Oval 29/06/09

I've been out all day and have only just heard about this. It sounds like another perfectly avoidable collision and the news (unconfirmed though it is at this time, I suppose) that the driver may have been over the limit just makes my blood boil. Having said that, a lot of other cyclist/HGV collisions have occurred in which the driver was stone cold sober. The outcome has been the same.

does anyone like the LCC or Oliver Schick keep a record of who has died and where at all?

Fixed.

We keep as much information as we can, but we can't keep a full casualty register. This is because there are cases in which the family don't want the victim's name to be known, and quite often the family don't want to speak to the press or other extrenal organisations.

The official keepers of statistics (without names) are the London Accident (sic) Analysis Unit in TfL's Road Safety Unit. They publish reports every year.

We work with those cases where the family want us to.

I think it would be useful info if we were going to write to our respective representatives, just to highlight the repeated tragedies that happen with Lorries and dustcarts on our roads and to show that these aren't isolated events but situations which keep repeating themselves again and again.

My thoughts are for the rider today....so sad.
Definitely, writing to the Mayor is a good idea. Cyclist/HGV safety is not currently one of his stated priorities, and it would be fantastic if he made it one.