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@sem
that is horrific.
this is my daily route and I would have been riding that way in to work although have started taking the first right hand turn possible off Vauxhall Bridge Rd to go around the houses as this stretch of road is just awful.
I was riding down there, but would have been earlier - around 8.35 am on saturday - so didn't see anything. Buses absolutely bomb it there though, and as you go over the bridge cars regularly run the lights and rush through the yellow box onto the bridge as the bus lane / cyclists make their way onto the bridge here:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=vauxhall+bridge+road&sll=51.508742,-0.132866&sspn=0.0531,0.154324&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Vauxhall+Bridge+Rd,+London+SW1V,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.486594,-0.125012&spn=0.013281,0.038581&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.486342,-0.124561&panoid=yuaxGiXHsJmkQOLSORO0yA&cbp=12,124.39,,0,-12.53
Nothing in the report suggests he was actually creeping up the left of the vehicle and cycle training is certainly necessary but he may well have been in front of the lorry and not seen by the driver for all we know. I had a fight with a man who was weaving to and from the curb precariously in his car on that very stretch last week. At the lights I knocked on his window to find him looking at photographs on his camera - and he laughed in my face and wouldn't roll his window down.
Lets not assume the cyclist was at fault.
Condolences to family and friends. There are no words for these tragedies :(
I hope some more information comes to light.