Writer, jeweller and mother-of-two, daughter of typewriter magnate Adriano Olivetti. Died, aged 56, as she cycled from her home in Hampstead Heath to work in Clerkenwell. To learn more about Emma see the Guardian Obit.. She was killed instantly after being crushed between the (left-turning) cement mixer’s rear wheels and roadside railings. The driver was fined £300.
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Paul Ellis
Aged 25. London cycle courier for Olympic killed by a left-turning skip lorry. Driver acquitted. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: John Paul Ellis was born on 15 February 1964 in Ire...
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Brixton Brady
Active in the queer arts community, once photographed by Karl Lagerfeld for Vogue. Brixton was aged 41 when, cycling to work, a lorry crashed into her and she and died at the scene. According to t...
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James Foster
Ghost Bikes provides a lot of info on James. He worked at Mosquito Bikes on Essex Road and was the inspiration for the original Ghost Cycle website in the UK.
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