Road Peace Seminar 9th of November

Hi

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.

Andrei is on here.

I can't make this one, unfortunately.

It's me. Anyone is welcome to come to the seminar at the LSHTM - I'm also giving the same (or very similar) presentation to the APPG the next day. The data I present will be based upon an analysis of the STATS19 database that I and a few others have carried out over the past year or so: we looked at cycling fatalities in London between 1992 and 2006.

i am interested in attending both / either.

can i just show up ?

you are welcome to show up to the LSHTM one (Monday lunchtime). The Tuesday presentation will be a repeat of the same thing but is only for MPs I'm afraid - but please do write and encourage your MP to come along!! There are websites that will help you to do it (don't have time to find right now as about to run out the door).

See you Monday?

please could you say which of the 5 possible buildings the Lucas room is in??
thanks

please could you say which of the 5 possible buildings the Lucas room is in??

Of course :)

The seminar will be held in the main building of the LSHTM - on Keppel Street.

In fact, the seminar has now been moved to the Rose Room (LG6/7) as this has a bigger capacity - when you arrive, you will need to sign in and then go downstairs where I think it is signposted. However, provided you are there on time, there should be someone to meet you and show you where the meeting will be (which is a definite advantage as there is one door you need to go through that requires a security card).

i just want to say that after discussing d0cA's fascinating work on this over dinner a few weeks ago the seminar looks set to be well worth going to.. good work Andrei, well done.. i might be coming, not sure yet.

but please do write and encourage your MP to come along!

Please do.

You can find your MP here http://www.writetothem.com/, and there's a sample letter here http://www.roadpeace.org

We want as many MPs to attend as possible. We need to let them know what needs to be done to eradicate the danger lorries pose to cyclists.

Thanks for your help.

you are welcome to show up to the LSHTM one (Monday lunchtime). The Tuesday presentation will be a repeat of the same thing but is only for MPs I'm afraid - but please do write and encourage your MP to come along!! There are websites that will help you to do it (don't have time to find right now as about to run out the door).

See you Monday?

thanks,

probably but it depends on me being able to juggle work appointments.

yes i will try and do the mp thing tonight. jim fitzpatrick is my mp. he was until recently a road minister and he is a cyclist. i quite like him. becuase he is into sports. i will make him aware of the event.

keep up the good work.

will be attending this in a work capacity, will sit at the back with quality cycling attire on if anyone wants to hook up for it. be good to get another perspective on matters.

Have just invited 100 MPs... I think Parliament think I'm spam.

Good luck Andrei!
Shame I can't make it...

How did it go? Are you planning to publish your research online? Wish i could have got there.

let's see the data..

(graphs / images preferred!*)

• with the raw, to back it up..
  
  

.. although, this seems like backward-thinking, how can it help preventing cyclist deaths in future?

^^ the three studies were all academically sound- trust us. the Seminar presented the ways that writers drew up methodologies, and presented findings relative to that.

The one overwhelming fact that came out of Andreis' study was that HGV'S are disproportionately involved in cyclist fatalities.

Andrei- please report back from the presentation made to the House of Commons,
would be good to hear what response was made.