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
Killed by a tipper lorry on a Monday 8.30 am on his daily cycling commute from Hounslow to his job as a senior cost consultant at the Olympic site. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further rese...
Born Lublin, Poland. 27-year-old cycle courier killed by collision with a HGV, a 32-tonne Scania tipper truck, whilst working for Anderson Young.In November 2004 Terence Mark Fallows, driver of th...
London bicycle messenger, killed in a traffic collision in Praed Street.
Born in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India, Cheistha Kochhar was a PhD student at the London School of Economics. She had already worked in a range of roles including business start-ups and with variou...
A sea battle that took place off Cape Trafalgar on the south west coast of Spain. Nelson led the British fleet to a decisive victory which permanently removed the threat of invasion of England by t...
Claudius George Algar was the elder child of Walter Algar (b.1830) and Mary Algar née Randleson (b.1828). He was born in Heybridge, Essex and his birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1860 in ...
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