2010-05-22 - Rider Down/Fatality, Vauxhall Bridge Rd

RIP Everton Smith.

@the recent comments^
I think there is a striking difference between an LGV driver and a construction driver. I feel that a lot of contstruction vehicles are driven more dangerously, faster and with less regard for more vulnerable road users than transport goods vehicles. This is only speculation based on my experience. I am even more wary of the Conway/Clancy Docwra/London Cement/skip lorry type of drivers than I am of goods vehicle drivers.

Are construction drivers always drivers, or are they construction workers who are liscenced to drive big vehicles?
I think LGV's are more aware because their whole livelyhood is driving, and if they get points etc, they're effectively un-employable, whereas the construction drivers would have other work as primary work, and thus do not care?

I can't handle expressing commiserations every time a cyclist gets hit by a truck anymore, I want to be proactive in doing something (anything!) about it. I suspect a lot of people on here feel the same. It's an issue we've just got to keep plugging away at.