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

Impressively, there are roadworks going on and all of the railings have been removed EXCEPT the one the ghost bike is attached to.

I guess the only problem with this is the possibility that the railings are being removed to stop people getting crushed by lorries turning left.

10/10 for consideration for the memorial though.

http://lcc.org.uk/articles/mother-and-friends-of-cyclist-killed-at-dalston-junction-will-walk-his-last-route-one-year-later

Christine, mother of Dan Cox who died after being struck by an HGV in Dalston, will remember the tragedy by walking her son's last cycle route on Thursday 2 February 2012, exactly one year after he died.

I joined Dan's mum and friends for part of their walk through Dalston on Thursday, stopping by the ghost bike and then on for a pub stop. Dan was the kind of guy whose life enriched all those around him.
Gallery director James Payne has written up his thoughts on Dan for the Huffington Post.

Today is the anniversary of his death in the London Hospital. His friends are meeting again to celebrate a wonderful, needlessly destroyed, life.

Just got this from Charlie.

Dan Cox was killed by a lorry in Dalston last year. The art exhibition opening this evening is a tribute to him.

The Dan Cox Library for the Unfinished Concept of Thingly Time
http://is.gd/R73q5d

The Dan Cox Library for the Unfinished Concept of Thingly Time first appeared as a consequence of the tragic death of Dan Cox in February 2011, while he was curating Andy Holden's exhibition at Kettle's Yard. Each week Dan, in his dual role of old friend and Theoretical Advisor, would visit Andy's studio and the pair would record their conversations, taking Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet as a starting point. The day before Dan's death on his bike at Dalston Junction he had proposed a title for the exhibition: Chewy Cosmos, Thingly Time. Chewy Cosmos is a slogan Dan found on the underside of a Cadbury's Starbar, conjuring up images of ponderous masticatory dialogue and the possibility of consuming the known universe. Thingly Time was to be Dan's Great Theory, drawing on Marx and observations from Andy's sculptures, of a three part-division of Time: Time as Intensive, Extensive, and Thingly. On the morning of the day of his death Dan sketched notes on his idea of Thingly Time, then set out on his bike, colliding with a lorry, and leaving the theory of Thingly Time in its embryonic, unfinished form.

CUBITT
Gallery and Studios
8 Angel Mews
London N1 9HH
T +44 (0)20 7278 8226
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Open: Wednesday-Sunday 12-6pm
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That's quite an echo. Amazing how someone can leave so much of themselves in their ideas, ethics, plans, interests, collaborations and friends.

Has anyone seen the ghost bike damage?

Anyone know when it may have happens? We're trying to work out if it was road workers or vandals as the whole thing is pretty trashed.

worth requesting cctv? That junction is covered by the councils cameras

http://www.hackney.gov.uk/Assets/Documents/100m_buffer.pdf

http://lydall.standard.co.uk/2012/06/another-hgv-driver-in-cyclist-death-crash-escapes-prosecution.html

http://lydall.standard.co.uk/2012/06/another-hgv-driver-in-cyclist-death-crash-escapes-prosecution.html

He had a mirror, missing and was indicating to turn right... FFS that is a disgrace.

sickening

There's something very wrong when such an excuse is accepted without question. Saying "SMIDSY" is a golden ticket to immunity from prosecution. It could even be in the interests of less scrupulous lorry operators to remove mirrors, the excuse is all ready then.

Some scumbag has also nicked the Memorial plaque off Dan's ghostbike after it was relocated away from Dalston Junction due to TFL.

So if you see anyone with a laser cut perspex memorial plaque on their mantle piece, pull their fingernails out for me.

Ross Lydall tweeting the driver didn't even receive the statutory fine for the missing mirror. It was his left-hand mirror, where Daniel was.

I'll say it again: Do you think such a sentence/verdict would have been given out if it were the child of the Judge?!

My deepest sympathies to Dan's family and friends for this appalling miscarriage of justice. I have asked Roadpeace for advice on how to proceed from here as I am at a total loss... All I know is that he deserved so much better than this. I continue to lobby for all CPS staff to be forced to cycle to work.

how is that even possible, sickening.

A very moving note on the bike from Dan's mum, put there three days ago on what would have been his thirtieth birthday. I've added a few tears to the spot where his bike's been moved to.

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It would be nice to have something to appeal against but as there wasn't even a court case there is nothing.

It would be nice to have something to appeal against but as there wasn't even a court case there is nothing.

That will teach me to read the article before commenting.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/london/mothers-anger-over-death-of-cyclist-as-case-fails-to-make-it-to-court-7836015.html

A Judicial Review of the decision not to prosecute would then seem to be the only way forwards.

That this even has to be considered is hugely upsetting for anyone involved. It's all so wrong.

Again, the burden of proof is with a dead person. The CPS can't prove that the driver didn't indicate, therefore ... how about the driver has to be able to prove they did?! Or that it isn't completely unacceptable for the mirror to be defective?

Fucking so upset about this.

Is anyone up for a protest?

On another note, anyone noticed TFl removing / destroying ghost bikes in the run up to the Olympics?