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Tweeted from City Police - Bank Junction closed due to a collision between a lorry and a cyclist.
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Police are appealing for witnesses for this multi vehicle crash this morning at 06:40am. The cyclist, a woman in her 50s, was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.
Appears to have happened near this junction:-
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I'm with bothwell on this one. That injury looks bloody nasty, and if you do believe the helmets are the d*gs whatsits gospel, I wouldn't expect to get that sort of injury with a helmet on?
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I work for a major Indian IT house and we have a vested interest in who wins, particularly on their stances on immigration and promoting business. So we have had some advisors in and they reckon a Labour/SNP coalition government as the most likely outcome.
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Now being reported as just the two riders down - assume they hit each other - no pedestrians involved and no hospital visit. No idea where some of this information comes from TBH.
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From the Ross Lydall twitter feed - "Incident on Millbank 8am: cyclist apparently in collision with two pedestrians, both of whom were taken to Royal London with head injuries"
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There is a big development going on straight across and to the left on Horseferry Road. Previously there weren't that many of those types of vehicles crossing Lambeth Bridge; they'd mainly use Vauxhall. I used to use Lambeth quite a bit but the sudden increase in tipper trucks behind you on a narrow bridge was horrid.
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Coming up on BBC Travel Alerts: :(
https://twitter.com/BBCTravelAlert/status/586089764807380993
It is narrow across there and there are more lorries as of late - I think due to the construction work off Dean Ryle Street.
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There are the usual yellow accident call for witness signs up around the junction. And a bunch of flowers tied to the fence at the traffic island; that bough a tear to my eye passing by there just now.
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This is a very nasty piece of narrow laned road which was reduced from 4 to 2 lanes as part of the Victoria Station upgrade several years back. The whole section of road is like a tunnel - both sides are enclosed by barriers and walls so there is absolutely nowhere to go if you get into a bad situation. There are also building sites on both sides of the road. I avoid it completely but if you don't know the area and just follow the main road, you can't even change your mind and stop alongside the road, and walk onto the pavement. I work just round the corner from here and have had a couple of family members call to make sure I'm okay.
Thoughts to the riders loved ones, family and friends.
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They did seem to be pulling over dodgy cars with younger drivers earlier opposite my office in Grosvenor Place, though they had security signs up and armed police. They do that here a lot.
There is still a ratty old VW parked there with 'Police Aware' on it which I assume probably wasn't taxed.
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Hope she is okay. One question though - on the Google Streetview, there is a red sign that I believe says no goods vehicles over 7.5T. Wouldn't that type of refuse container truck - which is what it looks like, rather than a household skip lorry - come under that?
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Hope she is okay.
Not a particularly controversial junction or anything, though cars and buses can be speeding round the preceding corner to approach the roundabout with the A316.
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Schools are back .....
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It is now in the Standard that a 40 year old man lost control descending Broomfield Hill. It does not say what actually killed him but it does mention that he was wearing a helmet and his estimated descent speed was 15mph.
Given this is a Standard link, probably best not to read any comments that roll in.
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Just went to get my lunch, road closed southbound outside House of Fraser, just before the Buckingham Gate junction. Buses 211 and 24 pulled up on left hand lane, Epsom Coach in right hand lane. Several police cars and ambulances. Air ambulance was landing somewhere behind Westminster City Hall. Did not want to hang around and gawp, so could be motorcyclist, cyclist, or pedestrian.
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Just confirmed on the BBC travel site that it is a motorbike rider. Apologies for the mistaken post.
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Unconfirmed reports from someone in the office and slightly second hand, that there is a cyclist down on Grosvenor Place. By the look of the traffic outside (I work further up Grosvenor Place and traffic is solid northbound, but nothing is coming down the road southbound). Possibly something happened coming off the roundabout.
I cycle down here every morning and generally don't have too many problems as there is space to overtake.
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Correct. The handle of the standard frame in theory fouls the brake cables, though lots of people do it. It isn't the bag so much as the frame.
I use a Demano bag that is designed to fit a standard height frame with the shorter S bag frame fine. Just not so much space for your hand when removing it from the bike.
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One of the main reasons I started using Lambeth Bridge is because the road surface on Bridge Street, outside Westminster Station, is totally and utterly sh*t. You're in the middle lane surrounded by taxis and coaches all wanting to turn left onto Victoria Embankment and bumping around all over the place. Not nice. I do a little back roads route from Hyde Park Corner via Vincent Square and Marsham Street and pop out onto Horseferry Road and away. Not far but the road surface is generally much more pleasant.
In the morning I cycle the other way from home and get on an empty Piccadilly Line train at LHR, then get off at South Kensington and ride along the South of Hyde Park, out and round the roundabout (takes too long going throught the two sets of cyclist lights on Wellington Arch).
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No worries will just shout hello! A ped walked out backwards into the bus lane last week without looking so her friend could take a photo of her. Moron!
You weren't on Westminster Bridge were you? Horrendous for that. Must get Big Ben in the background = must step out into cycle lane backwards without looking.
I usually ride in primary in the bus lane if I can, but at this time of year its full of those stupid open top things going slower than even me. And I'm on a 2 speed Brompton so not going very fast.
Have taken to going over Lambeth Bridge and back up by St Thomas's Hospital to get to Waterloo lately to avoid.
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A pedestrian has died after being hit by a lorry in the City.
The victim, who is in his 20s, was hit by a Travis Perkins truck on Camomile Street close to the The Gherkin at about 10.50am this morning.
Police remain at the scene and a cordon has been put in place.
Motorists are being advised to avoid the area while the incident is being investigated.
A City Police spokesperson confirmed the man had died, adding: "We are on the scene and road closures are in place".
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We were called at 10.53am to reports of a road traffic collision on Camomile Street.
"We sent two ambulance crews, a duty officer to the scene. A medical team from London's Air Ambulance in a car also attended."Our staff treated a pedestrian - a man reported to be in his 20s. He was taken as a priority to the Royal London hospital in a serious condition".
Travis Perkins has been contacted for comment.
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Down as seriously injured in the Evening Standard. Hope they are okay.