2010-03-09 - Rider Down/Fatality, Weston St x Snowsfield

I passed this what must have been seconds after it happed as there was a queue of traffic and the lorry had just finished reversing back and then drove forward turning right to park up on the left. There were a few people milling around, this was not a pretty sight, so I don't want to write up any more than this. From memory the lorry did no look like a tipper lorry to me either, more just a general fixed chassis/non-articulated delivery lorry unless the delivery lorry was following the tipper and the tipper was parked up further along down the left of the road but I didn't like looking down that way to check.

I ride this stretch regularly and know this junction well and I am not sure how this happened as it is a pretty narrow junction which all vehicle have to creep out of.

R.I.P
We are trying to work out what happened, where was the lorry coming from and which direction the cyclist was going. The lorry involved was the Keltbray tipper shown here http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4401 , was that the one you saw turning or was it another lorry? Do you have any idea if the crash happened before the junction or after it?