2011-02-02 - Rider Down/Fatality, Kingsland Road/Dalston Junction (London)

He worked at the Edinbro Castle, the Volunteer and milions of other pubs over the years. So some of you have probably met him at some point.

saw his memorial this morning, really nicely done.

Witnesses to this crash should call Detective Constable Tony Millington on 0208 597 4874.

Information from the Hackney Gazette.

RIP Dan, thoughts & prayers to you, your family & friends

Passed you & your bike at the Dalston junction.

So sorry Dan. Thoughts with your family and friends.

The Evening Standard have an article up about him now;
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23921696-friends-mourn-future-star-of-the-art-world-killed-when-his-bike-collided-with-lorry.do

Dan sounds like a cracking bloke. So sad.

Thanks for posting. I see the Journalists like to lift images of lfgss! There should be a memorial piece in the hackney Gazette printed on Thursday which his friends have collaborated on.

Here are some more photos in case anyone wants to run pieces on him: Feel free to use.

Terrible news
RIP

Didn't know him... looking at some of those photos though, I wish I had. Smiles aplenty there.

What a horrible waste.
My thoughts and condolences to friends and family.
Ride on Dan.

R.I.P.

Another article on road.cc

Please keep any mentions in any press coming as I am posting them on his memorial page.

Thanks

Someone has put up a Poster claiming Dan's bike is his?! And has left an email and phone number. Random...

what, on the ghost bike?

Yea

Take down poster, phone number and explain?

RIP Dan and condolences to all affected by this loss. :(

This is very sad news

Second hand information fail. Guy has left a stolen bike poster up with a pic of his bike. And sone flowers. Which was nice

There's a piece in the Hackney Gazette today. They didn't print our whole thing so here it is in case any ones interested:

Daniel Frank Cox, 28 was an art-theorist (and bartender), who lived on Lower Clapton Road in Hackney. He loved: Art (Baselitz), art-theory (Deleuze), philosophy (Kant), literature (Kafka, Pynchon), writing (with brackets!), football (Bristol City), music (Joanna Newsom), exercise (fighting off fatness), alcohol (any) and breakfast (with far too much butter).
Being as heathen and godless as we are, without a concept of Heaven or Hell or everlasting life, I propose this: Live your life with reckless abandon, have expensive tastes that you can't afford, work behind a bar for years to fund a Master's that is never going to make you any money, let girls bite your face, wear your door key on a length of string round your neck, and wherever you are, whatever you are doing, do it with as much enthusiasm, vigor and delight as Dan would have done and it'll be a little bit less like he's gone.

xxx, xxx, xxx and xxx are some of his closest friends,and a small portion of the people who Dan met, drank with, talked with, rode with, expanded their minds (or girths), and loved. We loved him too.

This is so sad

RIP Dan, thoughts are with family and friends

The Evening Standard have an article up about him now;
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23921696-friends-mourn-future-star-of-the-art-world-killed-when-his-bike-collided-with-lorry.do

Dan sounds like a cracking bloke. So sad.

As ever--do not read the comments on the ES piece unless you want to get really angry and leave comments to balance out the utterly stupid and offensive twaddle that gets left there. I made it about five down.

I live on Dalston junction and came home about ten minutes after the accident.
This has made me feel very sad, I can't stop thinking about it, so I can't imagine how all Dan's friends and family are feeling. Thanks for the pictures Weazlepopper.
I am sending prayers and love to you and all his friends and family.
xx

What a waste.

Nam myoho renge kyo

I've never posted here, but I read about Dan in ES, and wanted to pass on my deepest condolences to his family, friends and all who knew him. Such a tragic waste. RIP.

Didn't know him... looking at some of those photos though, I wish I had. Smiles aplenty there.

Same here. Horrible news, such a waste.

My condolences to all.