2012-10-29 - Rider Down/Fatality, Bethnal Green Road (London)

At the cyclist / lorry safety event this morning the police gave out a summary of recent serious crashes.

... There were two cars parked opposite a central traffic island narrowing the single westbound lane. A skip lorry was in a line of slow moving traffic when the cyclist attempted to overtake on its nearside through the gap between the lorry and the parked car. As he neared the car door mirror he steers to avoid it and falls to his right, hitting the lorry before falling under it's rear wheels sustaining leg and pelvic injuries and internal bleeding. ...
I don't think this extract tells the whole story of what actually happened.