skip to main | skip to sidebar

Crap Cycling & Walking in Waltham Forest

Monday, 18 May 2009

Another London woman cyclist killed by a lorry driver

A female cyclist has died after a hit-and-run crash with a lorry at a busy junction during the evening rush hour.The unnamed woman was struck by the vehicle at 5.30pm on Friday in Greenwich, south east London. Police are searching for the driver, who did not stop at the scene.

*

The collision occurred on the roundabout beneath the Woolwich flyover. This is at the junction of Woolwich Road and the Kent-bound A102 (M) in Greenwich.
Posted by freewheeler at 13:34
Labels: fatalities, heavy goods vehicles
Newer Post Older Post Home

Top Posts

  • How a traffic-free High Road Leytonstone was subverted
  • Amnesia in local transport planning
  • 840,000 new London cycling trips (in your dreams)
  • Official: London’s ‘cycling revolution’ never happened
  • What won't bring about mass cycling (1) 20 mph zones
  • What won’t bring about mass cycling (2) ‘Shared Space’
  • What won’t bring about mass cycling (3) Strict Liability legislation
  • What won’t bring about mass cycling (4) cycle training
  • What won't bring about mass cycling (5) vehicular cycle campaigning
  • What won’t bring about mass cycling (6) ‘Safety in Numbers’
  • What won’t bring about mass cycling (7) 5% plus modal share in a vehicular cycling environment
  • What won’t bring about mass cycling (8) legislation and education to make drivers behave better towards cyclists
  • 'Cycling in London is still a minority activity'

Waltham Forest links

  • Waltham Forest Guardian
  • FixMyStreet
  • Waltham Forest Council
  • Archipelago of Truth
  • Lost and Found in E17
  • Truth Will Out
  • A Girl in Walthamstow
  • Fight the Height
  • A Grim North
  • News From Nowhere Club
  • Blackhorse Action Group
  • Anti-scrap

Cycling advocacy

  • A view from the cycle path…
  • Cycling Embassy of Great Britain
  • Copenhagenize
  • Amsterdamize

Against car-centrism

  • At War With The Motorist
  • The Alternative Department for Transport
  • Pedestrianise London
  • Joe Dunckley's Notebook
  • Road Danger Reduction Forum
  • Bristol Traffic
  • Pedestrian Liberation
  • Aberdeen Cars
  • The Urban Country

Cycling blogs

  • As Easy As Riding a Bike
  • Vole O’Speed
  • Cyclists in the City
  • Cycalogical
  • I Bike London
  • CEOGB blog
  • BicycleDutch
  • The Cycling Lawyer
  • Views of a Croydon cyclist
  • Two Wheels Good
  • London Cyclist
  • People's Front of Richmond
  • Thinking About Cycling
  • Bikes Alive
  • Kennington People on Bikes
  • Downfader's Adventures
  • People’s Cycling Front of South Gloucestershire
  • Lovelo Bicycles
  • The Grumpy Cyclist
  • 42 Bikes: Life, the Universe and Bikes
  • Lo fidelity bicycle club
  • Cycling Intelligence
  • Do The Right Thing
  • Cycle A 2 B
  • Real cycling!
  • Freedom Cyclist
  • Crap cycling in Bournemouth
  • MCR Cycling
  • Biking Brits
  • Cycle of Futility
  • Mad Manchester cycle lanes
  • David Arditti
  • Moving Target
  • I Am Not A Cyclist
  • Crap Cycle Lanes of Croydon
  • Green Bristol

Greater London links

  • Dave Hill's London
  • Boris Watch
  • Barkingside 21
  • 853
  • Tory Troll
  • ASLEF shrugged
  • Bollards of London
  • TfL transport statistics
  • TfL ‘road safety’ data
  • London Assembly Transport Reports
  • London Cycle Network Design Manual (1998)

Miscellaneous

  • Cycle facility of the month
  • UK Cycle Rules
  • (Drawing) Rings Around The World
  • RoadPeace
  • Cycling links
  • Ian Tomlinson Family Campaign
  • The Crude Awakening
  • Slower Speeds
  • greenblog
  • That Guy Hex
Web Site Hit Counters
Website Hit Counters

Blog Archive

  • ►  2012 (189)
    • ►  October (81)
    • ►  September (59)
    • ►  August (49)
  • ►  2011 (386)
    • ►  August (26)
    • ►  July (58)
    • ►  June (50)
    • ►  May (53)
    • ►  April (53)
    • ►  March (53)
    • ►  February (49)
    • ►  January (44)
  • ►  2010 (1499)
    • ►  December (72)
    • ►  November (95)
    • ►  October (113)
    • ►  September (101)
    • ►  August (168)
    • ►  July (133)
    • ►  June (143)
    • ►  May (133)
    • ►  April (122)
    • ►  March (158)
    • ►  February (108)
    • ►  January (153)
  • ▼  2009 (1610)
    • ►  December (139)
    • ►  November (160)
    • ►  October (176)
    • ►  September (152)
    • ►  August (152)
    • ►  July (143)
    • ►  June (139)
    • ▼  May (105)
      • Entropy
      • The war on the motorist
      • The cholera of our era
      • Crap air quality in Hammersmith & Fulham
      • That’s the Tories for you
      • Climate break-up – stay calm
      • Epping council is crap
      • Matthew Parris watch
      • The Alfred Hitchcock Birthplace Museum
      • Something tells me…
      • Winterson on walking
      • ‘mishaps’: Indian road safety update
      • The Judiciary
      • Splat
      • Ancient folk traditions of Waltham Forest
      • A shocking example of criminally negligent cycling
      • What is to be done?
      • The Hackney Jungle Trek Challenge
      • The Middleburg Heights dissenter, Matt Seaton, and...
      • Another classic instance
      • What are lorry sidebars for?
      • Kier employee of the month
      • Boris 4
      • Fantasy cycling in London
      • More enviro-crime exposed - the usual culprit
      • More on that Boris near-death experience
      • New church decoration
      • Toby Young gets knocked off his bicycle
      • Boris: the video
      • Electrification and sewage at the Olympic Park
      • Crap cycling in Toronto
      • Cracking down on ‘rogue cyclists’
      • Boris Johnson cycling group in lorry near-miss
      • Cyclists not welcome here
      • Another design classic
      • 4X4 owners left feeling deflated
      • The news from China
      • The judiciary
      • Elderly pedestrians can wait
      • More from the archives
      • The hideous menace posed by modern youngsters
      • Tesco, for that little extra
      • Vanishing point
      • ‘Transport for London’ censors this blog
      • Short epic
      • How many years does it take a cycling officer to c...
      • Building collapses on Wood Street E17
      • Death in Greenwich
      • ‘Go Green’
      • New 'realistic' cycling posters
      • Dual-use trap
      • Another London woman cyclist killed by a lorry driver
      • Spanish lorry driver
      • Because you're crap
      • Greenwash
      • Bike race sabotage update
      • Charity cycle ride sabotaged
      • Taxi driver
      • Boris Johnson flies to South Korea to curb his emi...
      • The massacre continues
      • Another killer lorry driver breezes out of court
      • Climate catastrophe and the medical profession
      • The hypocrisy of Colin Barrow
      • Rat watch
      • The menace of speeding cyclists
      • The beginning of the end
      • Just another ‘accident’
      • A very tasty cycle lane
      • Mountain bike essential
      • The most dangerous road for Edinburgh's cyclists
      • How safe is London for cyclists?
      • The ugly side of Boris Johnson’s car supremacist p...
      • Stalin, Sustrans and the Olympic Greenways
      • A neglected greenway network
      • Obstruction of a cycle crossing facility
      • Drivers using hands-free mobile phones
      • The killing of Eilidh Cairns
      • Limo dependency
      • Excuse me for not being immensely excited
      • A tale of two punishments
      • A dangerous distraction?
      • Another lawless Loomis lout
      • Cyclist's stare 'threatened' 4X4 driver
      • Another scandalous injustice
      • RSPB against cycling
      • Cycling getting safer?
      • Policing in Canterbury
      • Junior VĂ©lib scheme pioneered by Waltham Forest
      • Advertising the Council's indifference to walking ...
      • The CTC and safety
      • Cycle lanes for the blind
      • Waltham Forest Council in new bid to discourage cy...
      • You can’t be too careful
      • The Met’s priorities
      • The passive and the active
      • Kill a pedestrian and be absolved of all blame
      • another J B Riney completed project
      • 102 mph
      • Car-nage in Bristol
      • Cop this
    • ►  April (125)
    • ►  March (106)
    • ►  February (99)
    • ►  January (114)
  • ►  2008 (786)
    • ►  December (108)
    • ►  November (121)
    • ►  October (110)
    • ►  September (86)
    • ►  August (52)
    • ►  July (31)
    • ►  June (42)
    • ►  May (33)
    • ►  April (39)
    • ►  March (49)
    • ►  February (46)
    • ►  January (69)
  • ►  2007 (81)
    • ►  December (25)
    • ►  November (9)
    • ►  October (13)
    • ►  September (19)
    • ►  August (15)

Labels

  • 20 mph zones (1)
  • abusive drivers (13)
  • ASL (73)
  • bike hire (16)
  • bike theft (30)
  • Biking Boroughs (4)
  • blue badge abuse (3)
  • Bogota (1)
  • Bristol (1)
  • British Cycling (2)
  • buses (50)
  • car dependency (417)
  • car free day (6)
  • CBT (2)
  • contractors (87)
  • contraflow lane (12)
  • Critical Mass (12)
  • Crooked Billet underpass (18)
  • CTC (64)
  • cycle lane obstruction (205)
  • cycle stand damage (9)
  • cycle stand siting (17)
  • Cyclenation (7)
  • Cycling England (1)
  • cycling noise (1)
  • dangerous cycle lanes (37)
  • DfT (1)
  • dropped kerbs (14)
  • drunken driving (46)
  • electric cars (4)
  • fatalities (299)
  • fish safety (1)
  • flyposting (1)
  • footway obstruction (266)
  • Forest Road (51)
  • ghost bikes (18)
  • going Dutch (66)
  • Green Charter (30)
  • Greenways (1)
  • grey fleet (5)
  • handheld mobile phone drivers (130)
  • hazardous cycling (320)
  • hazardous cycling surface (77)
  • hazardous cycling. (2)
  • hazardous walking surface (86)
  • heavy goods vehicles (243)
  • hit and runs (1)
  • impending climate catastrophe (180)
  • inadequate cycle stand provision (99)
  • Ipswich (1)
  • LCC (81)
  • Lea Bridge Road (9)
  • London Cycle Network (63)
  • LVRPA (3)
  • Manchester (1)
  • media (196)
  • motorcyclists (9)
  • naked cycling (23)
  • NHS (32)
  • Norwich (3)
  • obstructed cycle stand (188)
  • Olympics (22)
  • one-way streets (23)
  • Oxford (1)
  • PACTS (2)
  • parking enforcement (42)
  • pavement cycling (8)
  • pavement parking (94)
  • policing (315)
  • pollution (52)
  • poor design (225)
  • poor maintenance (153)
  • potholes (29)
  • public footpaths (27)
  • rats (22)
  • road rage (72)
  • road safety (265)
  • scaffolders (1)
  • shared space (3)
  • signing (95)
  • Sky Ride (6)
  • speed cushions (12)
  • speeding (216)
  • squalor (202)
  • statistics (162)
  • Sustrans (30)
  • TfL (72)
  • the judiciary (244)
  • vehicles in pedestrian areas (40)
  • Waltham Forest Design Awards (67)
  • weaving (1)
  • William Morris (80)
  • York (32)