Dr Giles worked at the Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling, Department of Earth Sciences, University College London. From her own website: "I am a NERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow and my research focuses on using satellites to better understand the physics of the ice covered polar oceans and how they are changing."
Aged 35, cycling to work on a Monday morning she was killed by a tipper truck at 8.25am. the driver was questioned by police at the scene but was not arrested.
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Dr Katharine Giles
Akis Kollaros was killed by a tipper truck at about 4pm on a Monday. From Roadcc: "A 34-year-old originally from Greece, Akis Kollaros was a music producer and sound engineer, and a member of the ...
Driver on the Northern Line. Killed at 5.00am when cycling to work in a collision with a car. Aged 31.
Killed at the junction of Madras Place and Holloway Road. Run over by a cement mixer while wheeling her bicycle across the Holloway Road. The traffic had stopped, she walked her bike across and the...
Graphic designer from Clitheroe, Lancashire. Cycling to work one morning was killed by a left-turning truck. The ghostbikes.org website gives more details about this cyclist and our colleague And...
