Coroner: Lorry driver "would not have expected" to encounter cyclist he killed

[Siclo]

Having several times been that cyclist who has ended up on highly unsuitable roads looking longingly at the parallel B road some 30 feet down a sheer embankment I thought this was interesting: https://goo.gl/maps/1KY7ijrVKM52

 

[glenn forger]

http://www.ctc.org.uk/blog/duncandollimore/coroners-careless-comments-cyclists-causation

 

[albion]

"The Elephant and Castle junction was described by PC Smith as "very complex" and by Lahyani's widow last year as a "death trap". London cycling campaigners have criticised the junction on numerous occasions. If the Coroner thought the layout of the junction contributed to Lahyani's death she should have made a Prevention of Future Deaths Report to Transport for London, requiring them to identify how they proposed to address the concerns she raised. No such report appears to have been submitted. No comments have been made about lorry design or safety issues. The one issue the Coroner believed worthy of comment, to explain the driver's apparent failure to see Lahyani, was the cyclist's choice of clothing."

The future looks bleak, a cyclists death not seeming to matter.