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Awful news. RIP
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Rip
another tragic waste
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Rip
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More here, with a picture of flowers from well-wishers. So sad:
http://westminster.londoninformer.co.uk/2010/05/cyclist-killed-in-pimlico.html -
terrible. these deaths are almost predictable: one a month. I was thinking about this the other day:
Wish there was a magical cure for this.
The cure is cycle training. Now I haven't been on it, but have taken a lot from this forum in terms of advice and also from other cyclists elsewhere. My general rule is stay well away from big things - stay behind or get ahead, and never down the side.
But the councils aren't promoting it enough. Even the nodder commuters in my office have no idea about it. If some of the money wasted on the superjokeways was put into promoting cycle training some of this shit might stop. Leafletting at junctions? How hard would it be?
/rant
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terrible. these deaths are almost predictable: one a month. I was thinking about this the other day:
The cure is cycle training.
Cycling training is certainly important, however, I believe the lorry drivers need more training and lorry access hours need to be changed.
We shouldn't have to share the road with something that clearly can't see us.
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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:
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.
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good post Sem
Very Sad and an utter waste.. again
Cycle training wont stop it, a little less haste in some of the road users might leave a few more cyclists.RIP Everton
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also....
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'Police were called at around 11.30am to reports that** a cyclist had collided with a lorry *at the junction of Vauxhall Bridge Road and Drummond Gate.'a cyclist collided with a lorry? Or the lorry collided with the cyclist? Again, a classic case of poor journalism...........no facts......all substantiated, and if at a junction, whether the cyclist WAS along the left of the vehicle or not - a lorry turning left onto a cyclist in the wrong position is still technically a lorry colliding with a cyclist. Unless he came flying along the road straight into the back / side of the lorry? Still - not enough information to justify this statement.
Getting really weary of this.
Ride safe folks.
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I missed this completely. It's always such sad news when this happens. Condolences to those who loved him.
Reat in peace, you good man, and long may your memory live on.
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Not that this will be news to many, but it bears re-iterating ...
Yes, cycle training is important, but it is designed to prevent death and injury, not give negative explanations as to why collisions happen. Of course, apart from his riding, there are also the other factors to be considered, such as driver performance and street design.
For instance, this junction has a very stupid and fast left-turn slip:
This is a poor feature that will always present a hazard to cyclists.
While the article doesn't say this and I don't want to speculate, I would assume that he would have been heading north.
also....
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'Police were called at around 11.30am to reports that** a cyclist had collided with a lorry *at the junction of Vauxhall Bridge Road and Drummond Gate.'a cyclist collided with a lorry? Or the lorry collided with the cyclist? Again, a classic case of poor journalism...........no facts......all substantiated, and if at a junction, whether the cyclist WAS along the left of the vehicle or not - a lorry turning left onto a cyclist in the wrong position is still technically a lorry colliding with a cyclist. Unless he came flying along the road straight into the back / side of the lorry? Still - not enough information to justify this statement.
Getting really weary of this.
That annoys me every time, and I've posted about it occasionally.
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2010-05-22 - Rider Down/Fatality, Vauxhall Bridge Rd
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This link was just tweeted by @BillBuffalo :
http://www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/fulham-and-hammersmith-news/local-fulham-and-hammersmith-news/2010/05/25/fulham-cyclist-killed-after-being-hit-by-lorry-82029-26517737/
Another cyclist, another lorry. Makes 4 so far this year. Too sad. Police are looking for witnesses, were you on the 436 bus heading north on Saturday morning?
This is where it happened:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Drummond+Gate,+Westminster,+London+SW1V,+United+Kingdom&sll=51.490914,-0.134205&sspn=0.021323,0.05549&g=vauxhall+bridge+road&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FW6qEQMdh_39_w&split=0&hq=&hnear=Drummond+Gate,+London+SW1V,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.489347,-0.131911&spn=0.005331,0.013872&t=h&z=17
R.I.P Everton Smith. :o(