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I have cycled along St Peter's Way, once (well twice actually, once in each direction). I cycled in the offset area on the edge of the road. In a sense it might be better to cycle against the traffic if you were going to cycle here, at least you'd have a chance to take evasive action. I wonder if it happened on the roundabout itself though.
Only cycled on it the one trip - wouldn't do it again...
The roundabout connects St Peter's Way to Chertsey Road, which is also a dual carriageway, but an urban one where cycing is more viable.
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http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2120628_cyclist_badly_hurt_in_crash_with_car_in_chertsey
"The collision between the male bike rider and a black Toyota Aygo travelling in the opposite direction happened in St Peter's Way at the Addlestone Moor roundabout at around 5.45pm.
The cyclist was taken to St George's Hospital in Tooting with serious injuries, while the female driver of the Toyota was not injured."
Note: St Peter's Way is a dual carriageway off the M25 with a 50mph limit, although in practice it is treated as a 70mph by motorists.
It is not clear if the incident occurred on the roundabout or on the dual carriageway
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http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2120501_crash_death_cyclist_was_riding_to_get_morning_paper
"THE family of an elderly cyclist who died after his bike collided with a truck have paid tribute to a man who would help anybody.
Robert Cherry, known as Bob, of Cardinal Drive, Walton, has been described by his daughter Michaela Hope as a keen gardener and steam train lover who cycled everywhere.
She said last Wednesday her 79-year-old father was cycling to get his morning paper when his bike collided with a skip lorry on Rydens Road.
Bob suffered a head injury and was taken to St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south west London, where he died from his injuries later that day.
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http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Boy-cyclist-12-dies-crash-van/story-16866029-detail/story.html
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Heartbreak-National-School-Hucknall-second-pupil/story-16871976-detail/story.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-19558950"A 12-YEAR-OLD cyclist injured in a crash has died.
The accident happened in Linby Road, Hucknall, at about 7.50pm on Thursday.
The boy was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in a critical condition.
The Post understands his life support machine was switched off yesterday morning."
The death of 12-year-old Jeffrey Townley is the second cyclist from the same school, Hucknall's National Academy to die in 2 months, following the death of Harrison Carlin, 15, on July 1st.
There are some deeply inappropriate comments by the local councillor in both Nottingham Post stories given that the crash is still under investigation by the police.
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Approximate location of the collision:
His Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151183005795519&set=a.487652435518.285518.686575518&type=3
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A YOUNG cyclist who suffered fatal injuries in a road collision in Skellow, Doncaster, was last night named by police.
He was Benjamin Hydes, aged 21, from Burghwallis, who was in collision with a van on Wednesday.
It is believed a Ford Transit van, driven by a 31-year-old local man, was travelling along Skellow Road away from the A1 when it collided with Ben as he exited Mill Lane, throwing him from his bicycle and into the road.
He was taken straight to Leeds General Infirmary for treatment for serious head injuries, but died in the same hospital on Thursday morning.
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http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2119499_woman_suffers_serious_injuries_in_horsell_crash
This is local to me, though I am away currently.
From the time of day one would assume the cyclist, described as a woman in her 50s, was heading to Woking station.
The road is a 30mph limit but plagued by speeding drivers.
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Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2304619551/
This seems to be a summary:
**A nice gentle summer ride up to the vigil for Dan Harris tonight. Thanks Donnachadh McCarthy for organising and liaising with police so well!On a less positive note, a taste of things to come for the upcoming Critical Mass ride... as well as 4 or 5 police cyclists riding with us (perfectly pleasant and friendly in fairness), there was also a police helicopter tracking us from Waterloo up to the Olympic Park, and 6 police motorcyclists riding a way ahead of us (discreetly, but not quite invisibly). (also apparently several vans were at Waterloo tucked away but I didn't see those)
Then when we reached the point of the vigil, no less than 13 police vans were waiting for us, with lines and lines of police officers lining all the routes around the park. After a bit of friendly negotiation from the organisers, most of them moved away for the vigil itself, though there were still a dozen or so looking on expecting at any minute for us to storm the olympic park. Practice run for them?**
Photos:
www.demotix.com/news/1381805/vigil-mark-olympic-park-cyclist-dan-harriss-deathDoesn't look like there were even 30 cyclists.
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aha, here is the met page on tonight - http://content.met.police.uk/Event/Cycle-Ride/1400010740627/1257246745828 .
Now expired/deleted.
Content for posterity:
** Cycle Ride ** Start: Fri 10 August 2012, 18:00 PM End: Fri 10 August 2012, 21:00 PM **Description** On Friday 10th August 2012 there will be a cycle ride and vigil.The event will begin at 1800hrs from Waterloo Bridge and travel to the Olympic Park Stratford.
It is estimated that approximately 30 cyclists will be in attendance for the event.
The route is as follows:
Waterloo Bridge, Aldwych, Strand, Farringdon Street, Smithfields Market, Chartherhouse Street, St Johns Street , Old Street, Hackney Road, Cambridge Heath Road, Mare Street, Morning Lane, Homerton High Street, Homerton Road.
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You mean subdued by peer pressure exactly like happened the first time? Oh yes, I agree. And maybe someone should bring along a potato cannon again. You know, in order to demonstrate how nobody would think to subvert such a ride.
Because there's no difference between a monthly Critical Mass and a memorial ride. People behave the same at a funeral as they do at a party. Nobody is capable of behaving differently under any circumstances, we are all automata, etc.
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Unless specifically banned from doing so under a section 12 notice.
You mean the notice that the police took out two days before the event but refused to publicise until the day of the ride and then only haphazardly, because they wanted to create a confrontation involving hundreds of police and police vans and blocking all the bridges in London?
And the one that they randomly decided to use against anyone who happened to be riding a bike in the general area regardless of whether they were informed of the existence of this notice.
And regardless of the fact that the legitimacy of the notice was impossible to challenge because of the police's tactics.
Because you don't get to decide for yourself whether your actions are "legitimate". The law does.
Which is what. The law as executed by an individual police officer?
Legitimacy is a nefarious thing, Oscar Wilde was locked up for sodomy - these days he'd be a TV star.
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As I said before the other incident I wasn't enaged at all with the group or what they stood for but became interested, but this is diminishing them in my eyes massively, and I start to wonder whether they bought what happened the other night upon themselves.
There is no 'them'. There is no organisation, anyone can say 'this is Critical Mass'.
The guy on Facebook making the most noise apparently only went on his first CM ride in July.
My guess is that some people will go ahead with this. Whether they are collectively 'Critical Mass' I'm not sure.
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As someone has already pointed out, it's not proven that it was the bus drivers fault, and how many dangerous cyclists do you see every day on the roads.
I guess there were dangerous cyclists on the Lea Valley towpath (closed for Olympic security), but they weren't going to get run over by a bus there were they?
There are rules, some obey, some don't, and sadly sometimes even when they are obeyed shit goes wrong.
That implies it's just random chance. It really isn't. Road design, and decisions like those taken for the Olympics (to pay absolutely no regard to cyclists' safety whatsoever when altering the roads) are absolutely critical.
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No they didn't, unless they all had tickets to the opening ceremony.
That would be the 'riding on the roads' cause. You know the one that bicycles enjoy as of right.
Sentences like this remind me a little too much of the IRA declaring that their victims were "legitimate targets" or Israel claiming that bits of stolen land are "legitimate settlements". It's self-serving bullshit.
Because riding a bicycle is exactly the same as bombing people.
Is this a cycling forum?
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Why piss off more people at a high point for cycling in this country.
Eh, Wiggins said himself, cycling is dangerous, you need helmets and safety equipment. It doesn't sound like a high point to me. Ok we have a handful of world-beating elite riders riding in elite races with big budgets., but that is not cycling in this country.
Cycling in this country is sharing the road with cars doing 60mph+, quite a number of whom would rather you weren't there at all and pay scant respect to your safety. I don't see any high point frankly. Car drivers are not going to give way to my kids trying to get to school on their bikes in the morning (they are the only ones, most others go by Q7, X5, etc.) because Chris Hoy won gold. And it's not going to make the council fund a crossing either.
Smacks of an ill thought out and selfish agenda and it is the antithesis of cycling's great, inclusive wonder. Don't stoop, don't ride slow..
You what?
So cycling's inclusive (it's not, it's a minority activity, unlike driving), but don't ride slow, which might be a problem if you have a crap bike (oops, there goes the poor people on BSOs), or you are unfit/overweight.
I don't think it's inclusive at all. If you want to ride safely on our roads you need to be able to get up to 20mph+ sprint speed quite often in order to assert yourself in traffic, and you need the confidence to take the lane (again this comes down to speed, which is a function of having enough cash for a decent bike, as well as fitness/age).
My wife can't/won't do these things, she doesn't feel included by cycling in the slightest. She'll ride to the shops, but she won't come on main roads because of the above.
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Srsly?
I suggest you pick your fights a little more wisely.
I'm not picking any fights here. I'm just pointing out that my Sunday morning rides take place at about 12mph with men over the age of 60 and involve tea and cakes at 10:30am and a return home in time for lunch/day out with the wife and kids. I am not an agitator, not a protester, nor a police hater.
The last group I joined was the Neighbourhood Watch, not the Socialist Workers Party.
I am not affiliated with anybody, and I'm not organising anything, so I really can't say what anyone is going to be doing on any particular ride (especially as their zero chance that I will be going along), or where they might go.
I wouldn't say that the best way to pay respects is with a bunch of flowers and a white bike and then wait for the next cyclist to die in a similar fashion before repeating the tribute.
This junction is apparently poorly designed https://twitter.com/RossLydall/status/231146977805623296 and it formed part of Dan's sadly brief daily commute.
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And just to add I have not had any 'rounds with the Met'.
You seem very angry which is understandable, but your anger is misplaced.
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What utter, self serving rubbish.
Don't drag the death of a young man, unconnected with your dubious organisation, into your intended re-match with the Police. If you want round 2 with the Met, by all means chance your arm, but we will know your true motives, and shall not forgive nor forget such a grevious insult to the family and friends of the deceased.
Which dubious organisation would that be?
I am a cyclist, I am not a member of any 'organisation'.
I did try to join the CTC once (yes, the gentle geriatrics who pootle about on Sunday mornings) but I don't think the form went through. That's the extent of my 'organisation' I'm afraid.
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As someone who is pro this idea, what's your response to this comment?
There have been 10 London cyclist fatalities so far this year.
There was one memorial ride for the first reported (2nd actual) fatality of the year. .
It was organised and attended in the main by messengers as he was one of their own.Where are the other eight mid-month CMs?
As far as I can see this can be concluded one of two ways, either those 8 people were not worthy or this is little more than an a thinly veiled attempt to get their own back after the kettling of CM last week. The former is unthinkable and the latter is despicable.
That's more than a little myopic.
The CM had legitimate cause to go to the Olympic site, not to sabotage the Olympics, but because there was considerably dismay at the way that cycling in London has been made more dangerous as a result of the Olympics, in terms of road/path closures, and the Zil Lanes in which cycling is banned.
It was not an anti-Olympic protest but a protest against the damage done to cycling in the name of the Olympics.
You can see on his Runkeeper site that he was not a 'racing' cyclist: http://runkeeper.com/user/gecko84/activity/106168308 He cycled through Victoria Park rather than sticking to roads.
I think the closed Towpath was not on his route, albeit that he would have passed over it; but it underlines the indifference of the Olympic organisers to the safety of cyclists that quiet routes like this were closed.
Saying that it's just a bunch of people trying to get their own back on the police or whatever ignores the serious issues here.
Whether or not his family and friends would support the idea, I don't know, but a peaceful ride to highlight the Olympics' impact on cycling safety would seem apt to me.
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The cyclist has now died in hospital
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2120782_chertsey_crash_cyclist_dies_in_hospital
It appears to have occurred on the roundabout, but still can't quite understand the 'opposite directions' reference.