There is a piece in the Times today about cycling accidents - one of the paper's reporters was recently injured - since it is behind a paywall here are some extracts:
A reporter from The Times is in a critical condition in hospital after a collision with a lorry while cycling across a notoriously dangerous junction near the newspaper’s Wapping offices.
Mary Bowers, 27, a news reporter and feature writer at The Times, was only 100 yards from arriving at the News International building on the morning of November 4 when the collision happened.
Her accident comes as the number of cyclist deaths on London’s roads rose to 16 so far this year — six more than the whole of last year.
Though cyclist deaths on London’s roads have fallen in the past five years — from 19 in 2006 to 10 last year — there have been an average of 402 serious injuries per year for cyclists during that time.
Two of these accidents – the deaths of Brian Dorling, 58, and Svitlana Tereschenko, 34 – took place recently at the roundabout in Bow where the junction is crossed by the Cycle Superhighway, leading cycle campaign groups to call for greater measures to protect cyclists and to make life easier for motorists trying to avoid them.
Eleanor Carey, 22, a student from Guernsey, was killed while cycling by a lorry on Friday, December 2, at the junction of Tower Bridge Road and Abbey Street.
A reporter from The Times is in a critical condition in hospital after a collision with a lorry while cycling across a notoriously dangerous junction near the newspaper’s Wapping offices.
Mary Bowers, 27, a news reporter and feature writer at The Times, was only 100 yards from arriving at the News International building on the morning of November 4 when the collision happened.
Her accident comes as the number of cyclist deaths on London’s roads rose to 16 so far this year — six more than the whole of last year.
Though cyclist deaths on London’s roads have fallen in the past five years — from 19 in 2006 to 10 last year — there have been an average of 402 serious injuries per year for cyclists during that time.
Two of these accidents – the deaths of Brian Dorling, 58, and Svitlana Tereschenko, 34 – took place recently at the roundabout in Bow where the junction is crossed by the Cycle Superhighway, leading cycle campaign groups to call for greater measures to protect cyclists and to make life easier for motorists trying to avoid them.
Eleanor Carey, 22, a student from Guernsey, was killed while cycling by a lorry on Friday, December 2, at the junction of Tower Bridge Road and Abbey Street.