2011-03-22 - Rider Down/Fatality, Jamaica road

SE1 is reporting a Rider down (possibly fatal) on Jamaica road/Tanner street.

http://twitter.com/#!/se1/status/50207955836076032

and

http://twitter.com/#!/se1/status/50200992263843843

Doesn't seem to be much else online, but hopefully the reports are mistaken.

Fingers crossed

Best wishes to anyone affected.

Hope that report is incorrect and person is ok.

There is some info on the SE1 forum - looks like a collision with a "skip lorry". Unfortunately it does not look good, but best to wait for official reports.

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/137780

Ah hell. Thoughts are with the downed rider. Anybody who commutes Jamaica road knows it can be quite hairy at times...hope this report is inaccurate.

Hope that report is incorrect and person is ok.

+1
There have been a couple of false (no fault of poster) reports recently, I hope this is another.

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/5169

Fuck.
Still hoping its not true.

Be safe people.

:( ride this way a lot — thoughts go out.

Looks terrible. Another HGV-type vehicle too. SE1 has a haunting image of a lone bicycle and scattered belongings, which I find a little distressing. Hopefully they can remove that.

I hope it's not true, but it looks really bad. Commiserations to any friends and family of this guy.
The bike is an old silver/blue hybrid. The lorry a small skip carrier. The lorry was going left out of Jamaica road to Tanner st. The cyclist may have been aiming for the bus lane, going straight on towards Tooley st. It is a nasty junction at any time.

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/5169

awful news

RIP fellow cyclist

Horrible, horrible, horrible. RIP.

very sad.

thoughts and prayers for the rider, family and friends.

i will of course write to my mp asking for safer public thoroughfares etc.

RIP unknown brother.

RIP

Very sad news indeed.

Skip wagons are the devil's own. They terrify me.

RIP, 20 year old cyclist.

Bloody hell. This is exactly on my daily commute route.

The whole London Bridge random one way/no way WTF system is a fucking joke and I saw yesterday that Borough High St is going to be shut down again until Xmas making the side streets even more effed.

^totally

RIP

very sad we lost two riders today

thoughts and prayers for the riders, their family and friends.

I saw the personal effects of this poor person scattered along the road on my way back from a training session with my mate. Horrible especially as I can almost see this from my bedroom.

RIP

Yet monies are still getting cut for advance road training.

RIP. Thinking of the cyclists family and friends.

Horrible. Really confusing junction, wonder if this was a factor and whether it could be made safer.