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I spoke to thelondonpaper yesterday & they have run a piece on this today (the final edition of tlp)
I thought I would make you aware of it before the who the f**k is this Mike fella who says he is representing the forum starts. I really didn't expect a direct quote let alone this.
**AN EIGHTH cyclist this year has died in the capital after colliding with a lorry, prompting calls for a road safety campaign. Crystal Brown, 26, was hit on Wednesday morning at a junction on Whitechapel Road and died later in hospital. Police said that she had recently moved to Hackney. A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said: “It looks like she and the lorry were going to turn left. The back of the lorry clipped her and she has been dragged under.”
Cyclists have expressed anger on internet forums at the number of cyclists killed by lorries, especially when turning left. A meeting is planned next week to discuss ways of making roads safer. Mike R**, of the London Fixed-Gear and Single-Speed forum, said: “Some solutions can be quite cheap and simple . We need to tell people not to go between the left of lorries and the pavement at traffic lights. “Several cyclists have been killed in this way .”