2013-11-13 - Rider Down/Fatality - Bow Interchange (London)

Both my girlfriend and I travel this route for our commutes. She walks it now and I use the overpass. My sincere condolences to both the rider and her family.

thoughts and prayers for the rider, family and friends.

i also pray for our leaders to find the strength and courage needed to effect the changes that are needed to our urban morphology.

such very sad news.

Desperately sad. It really feels overwhelming when there's so many in such a short time.

In reports on incidents such as this, there's often a line about the driver not being arrested. Does this mean that the police have decided there was no fault, or is there still an investigation?

Highly likely to be the latter.

i think i will go to the peaceful protest.

RIP. This junction is a travesty.

RIP rider. Can't make the protest ride but all the best to those making a stand.

i went to the gathering at bow flyover.

it was sad but i am glad i went.

well done to lcc and the police for organising us.

Thoughts with the cyclist's loved ones tonight.

I can't believe how bad this area still is.

Just horrible. It just doesn't make sense that in this day and age we still allow this to happen.

Thoughts with the cyclist's family and loved ones. So very sad tonight.

Awful....
thoughts to cyclist's loved ones..

Bow roundabout! Again?

RIP rider.

I hate to think yet another family is going through what we went through 2 years ago

• Debbie Dorling, Brian's widow, at Bow roundabout
  

Grief upon grief

R.I.P. Ride.

No more, please.

Horrible. Has it ever been as frequent? One is too many. Love to all x

My sympathies and thoughts to the rider's family and loved ones. RIP.

RIP rider. My thoughts where with you and your friends/family as I rode home last night.

RIP Venera Minakhmetova

oh venera,

we will really miss you.

we will keep thinking of you.

god bless.

Saw the tributes left for her on the way home from a ride today.
Harrowing.

her family are appealing for witnesses.

Inquest has been hold.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/dont-jump-red-lights-coroner-warns-cyclists-at-bow-roundabout-lorry-death-inquest-9250220.html

Actually, the facts presented in this article are confusing me. As far as I understand what happened, both the cyclist and the lorry were westbound on the A11. The cyclist wanted to go straight towards the City, while the lorry turned left onto the A12 towards the Blackwall tunnel.

Police says the cyclist probably jumped a red light before being hit by the left turning lorry. On the other hand, the article says the HGV was waiting 17 meters behind the ASL and was running at 13 mph.

If Verena really jumped the light, should she not have been way ahead of the lorry?

"Most likely" being the operative word, even if she had jump a light, it still doesn't make it ok for the HGV to perform a turn without checking his side mirror.