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Speaking to LBC radio, the Mayor added: “Some of the cases that we’re seeing just in the past few days, they make the heart bleed, because you could see that people have taken decisions that really did put their lives in danger.
“When people take decisions on the road which are very risky — jumping red lights, cycling across fast-moving traffic to get to somewhere in a way that is completely unexpected by the motorist, and without looking to see whether traffic is coming — it is very difficult for the transport engineers to second-guess that.”
A Transport for London spokeswoman, asked whether the Mayor was suggesting that any of the cyclists to die had jumped red lights, said it was “too early to say”.