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@Peter_Carter
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See below, did people know about this? I think one of the speakers, Andrei Morgan, has done Phd work on this.
See also the follow up on the 10th@ the House of Commons.
Monday, 9th November, from 1230-1400, there will be a seminar at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine that is open to the public and will include the following presentations:
1) Families bereaved by road traffic crashes (Phil Edwards)
2) Deaths of cyclists in London (Andrei Morgan)
3) Do 20 mph speed zones reduce casualties? (Rebecca Steinbach)
The recently published TRL research into London cyclist fatalities covered only 2001-2006 while I believe Andrei Morgan's presentation covers more recent years. Phil's presentation is on the economic impact of road deaths on families.
This seminar marks the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims and is co-hosted by LSHTM's Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research Unit (NPHIRU) and RoadPeace. It will take place in the Lucas Room, LSHTM.http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/location/
I would also like to ask you help in getting your MP to attend a meeting to learn more about what can be done to reduce the threat from lorries to cyclists.
On November 10, from 4-6 pm in the Grand Committee Room in the House of Commons, there is a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Justice for Road Traffic Victims, which RoadPeace coordinates. There we will launching a guide for bereaved families of cyclists killed by lorries. This guide is based on cases in London and was produced by RoadPeace, LCC and CTC with help from Leigh Day and Co.
At this meeting, we will also have the LSHTM presentation on cyclist deaths in London, a presentation by Metropolitan Workshop, where one of the victims worked, and what they are doing to and Lambeth on their HGV driver training programme. We would be grateful if you could email your MP and ask them to attend this meeting and learn about these initiatives.