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

We have just heard of a rider down on Weston St SE1 by Snowsfield. The Police have closed off the road.

Fuck
sounds bad
hope they are ok

The SE1 twitter account says it's a fatality I'm afraid;

https://twitter.com/se1

RIP unknown cyclist.

Shit, I was down there the other day, usually not too busy a road.

R.I.P. rider.

Its a pretty quiet stretch there.

Sad news.

It's a rat-run. It's quiet, but occasionally you get a complete idiot tearing along. (I ride along it all the time to get to the LCC office.) Terrible news.

Confirmed. Cyclist killed by large tipper lorry going south on Weston street. The lorry is like the ones going in and out of the 'shard' building site by London Bridge Station. We have no details about the cyclist.

Terrible news. Very sad.

Shit :(

RIP

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4401

So sorry to hear this. RIP.

from the SE1 forum:
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/123569
Young lad. A 4th year medic.
The lorry went straight over him & killed him instantly.
So so sad.

Those hugh tipper trucks are driven so recklessly & I'm sure that they are not supposed to be using these side streets as runs.

Perhaps a campaign for width restrictors would help?

RIP cyclist.

That is very tragic news. I guess he was on his way to the hospital when it happened. I just don't get what these trucks are doing on these roads and where the fuck the drivers are looking. Because it obvioulsy isn't the road in front!

Terrible news. RIP.

very sad news. RIP

Terrible news. Thoughts go out to him and his family.

Wow, poor guy. My thought go out to the family and friends. It's sickening.

I often ride down that way, and it seems a really strange place for something like that to happen, of course not that it ever should. The road is pretty small, and as said before very quiet.

Seeing the pic of the Keltbray lorry makes me shudder, as I've been buzzed by them many a time, far to close for comfort on journeys east/south.

RIP

Those tipper trucks buzz me at frankly outrageous speeds on the Viccy Embankment in the mornings, sometimes inches from my right.

Horrible to hear this news. So young. R.I.P.

very sad news. RIP.

**Police are appealing for witnesses following a fatal road traffic collision in Southwark .

Police were called around 09:50 hrs on Tuesday 9 March to reports of a tipper lorry in collision with a pedal cyclist in Weston Street, Southwark, SE1.
LAS attended and the cyclist was pronounced dead at the scene. We believe we know the identity of the dead man who was 21 yrs. He has not yet been formally identified.

A post mortem examination will be held at Greenwich Public Mortuary, a date is awaited.
An Inquest will open in due course.

A man in his 30's was arrested at the scene. He has been bailed to return pending further investigation.

The incident is being investigated by the Collision Investigation Unit at Catford Traffic Garage.
Anyone who witnessed the collision is asked to contact the unit on 020 8285 1574 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 to remain anonymous.**

Oh God, so f*cking sad. I work 2 mins from there, cycle that road all the time. Those Shard lorries are a menace and really should not be allowed on roads as narrow as Weston St.

Very bad news. I cycle very close to there every day. And very close to the death on Tower Bridge Road a couple of weeks ago.

What totally devastating news. There has to be a way of marking what is going on - not just individual ghost bikes.. Oliver? Take care Crispin Glover. I was almost wiped out by one of those massive tipper trucks last month. 6th sense told me to take shelter at the last minute.

London Tonight showed film of the aftermath with unblurred and blurred shots of the bike in the road. Fucking grim.