Trainee architect, 29, died after she was caught on the inside of a left-turning cement mixer as she cycled to work at Metropolitan Workshop in Cowcross Street. She was living in Bethnal Green but her home was a village near Hamburg, Germany.
October 2009: a coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. The driver, Vladas Urbanas, claimed that he had looked in his mirror and that Rebecca must have been in "a blind spot".
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Rebecca Goossen
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.
Gemmill was killed by a tipper truck while cycling to work at 9.30am on a Thursday. 55 years old, a designer, she had led the recent acclaimed re-design and refurbishment of the V&A. She had a...
Retired GP killed by a lorry while cycling, at 9.40am on a Monday. The driver stopped but was not arrested. Dr Richards lived in Whetstone, had worked as a GP at the Hornsey Rise Health Centre ...
17 year-old Olatunji was killed by a car while cycling across a pedestrian crossing. The driver, Barry Normah, aged 28, sped through a red light, drove off after the collision and then dumped the ...
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...
Welfare worker. All we can find out about her is contained in her plaque in Redcross Street where she lived. She was the manager of the Central London School for Orphans and Destitute Children at H...
Daughter of Doctor Alfred and Ada Salter. She contracted a virulent form of scarlet fever and died at the age of eight.
This plaque is at eye level on the front of the pedestal to the left of the entrance, under the Wernher bust. Apologies that we do not y...
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