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Julie; thankyou for your contribution. It does however show how frightening the situation with HGVs is; if a driver with 20 years' experience can end up in this situation having apparently done everything right then clearly until major changes are made cyclists will continue to die. What mirrors were fitted to his vehicle? How much training or warning had he had specific to the risk of not being able to see cyclists on his left? Has the company he works for done anything at all on this issue?
Given the situation I wouldn't really ask you to answer these questions on an internet forum but they are the questions that need to be asked and answered at some point.
Your partner is the one who now has to live with the consequences of a systematic failure by government, local and national, and by private companies. To say nothing of the far greater consequences for the family of the woman who died.
Maybe the best that can come out of this is the realisation that cyclists and HGV drivers have a common interest. The more the two are able to communicate and work together the sooner some progress might be made.