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Cyclist deaths

Categories: Tragedy

Much of the street research for LondonRemembers is done by bike. 820 cyclists were killed or seriously injured in 2009 on roads in Britain. Many of these deaths are avoidable. Many of the drivers of the motor vehicles involved received minimal, if any, legal penalty.

2012 documentary (12 mins).

This page, 'cyclist deaths', links together all the memorials that we have found for cyclists killed on London roads - too many.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Cyclist deaths

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Antony "Smudge" Smith

In memory, Smudge, 1971 - 2008

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Brian Dorling

Diamond Geezer posted photos of the bike on 19 April 2012.

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Megan Eileen Heffernan

Megan Eileen Heffernan

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Arthur Frederick Corking

Arthur Frederick Corking

Killed in the Moorgate tube disaster and shown incorrectly on the memorial in Finsbury Square, London, EC2 as 'CORKING, ALFRED'. We originally listed him as Alfred Corking as this is how he is rem...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Lee Rigby

Lee Rigby

Soldier. Born as Lee James McClure (he later took his stepfather's surname) in Crumpsall, Manchester. He joined the army in 2006, and was selected to be a member of the Corps of Drums, serving in C...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy

3 memorials
Neil Dowse

Neil Dowse

A sheet metal worker, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 39. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Neil Bernard Dowse was born on 4 November 1959. He was a sheet meta...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial

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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea. It was originally planned to call it just Kensington, but Chelsea was added after local prot...

Group, Politics & Administration

31 memorials
Women's Royal Naval Service

Women's Royal Naval Service

The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS; popularly and officially known as the Wrens) was the women's branch of the Royal Navy. First formed in 1917 for WW1, it was disbanded in 1919, then revived in...

Group, Armed Forces

1 memorial
Poplar Borough Council

Poplar Borough Council

In 1855, Poplar joined with neighbouring Bromley and Bow to form the Poplar District of the Metropolis. This became the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar in 1900. In 1965 it merged with the Metropolit...

Group, Politics & Administration

3 memorials
World War 1

World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

402 memorials
Francis Golding

Francis Golding

Architectural expert:  honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), head of the Royal Fine Art Commission during the late 1990s and had worked on major projects such as the ...

Person, Architecture, Cyclist, Tragedy

1 memorial