Category Archives: Road safety

Cyclist fatalities due to left-turning lorries

Posted on June 5, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Paula Jurek, a 20-year-old student from Poland, was crushed to death by a left-turning lorry at the junction of Camden Road and St Pancras Way on the 5th of April this year. The lorry driver was arrested on suspicion of … Continue reading →

Posted in Dangerous driving, London, Road safety, The judiciary | 6 Comments

The village of Cowfold moves one step closer to total car dependency

Posted on June 4, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Back in the 1960s, the Sussex village of Cowfold was a short distance – a couple of miles – from a railway station that could take its residents south to Shoreham and Brighton, or north to Horsham. That railway station … Continue reading →

Posted in Car dependence, Road safety, Town planning, West Sussex County Council | 3 Comments

Dual carriageways, and how cyclists get hit on them

Posted on June 3, 2011 by aseasyasriding

I wrote in April of the death of William Honour, a 79-year-old cyclist who was killed on a dual carriageway in Surrey after being clipped by two vehicles, and run over by a third. What was apparent from the inquest … Continue reading →

Posted in Dangerous driving, Infrastructure, Road safety, Transport policy | 9 Comments

‘Safety In Numbers’? Or ‘Numbers from Safety’?

Posted on May 17, 2011 by aseasyasriding

The CTC – among others – are quite keen on the ‘Safety In Numbers’ effect. A couple of years ago, they produced a pdf on it. It contains this graph, showing an attractive correlation between the cyclist death rate, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in CTC, Cycle Superhighways, Road safety, Safety In Numbers, The Netherlands | 15 Comments

Horsham Cycling Review – Route 1 (High Priority)

Posted on May 16, 2011 by aseasyasriding

In a recent post, I described how Horsham District Council commissioned an independent review of cycling in Horsham, back in 2008, with a view to assessing where ‘gaps’ existed in Horsham’s cycling network, and how to go about improving the attractiveness … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling policy, Horsham, Horsham Cycling Review, Infrastructure, Parking, Road safety | Leave a comment

RAC driver helpfully adds realistic road conditions to a Bikeability lesson

Posted on May 14, 2011 by aseasyasriding

My Bikeability class were practising right turns into a junction yesterday, on a reasonably quiet back street. While we were doing this, an RAC breakdown driver – sensing that the road conditions under which we were performing this manoeuvre were … Continue reading →

Posted in Cyclecraft, Horsham, Parking, Road safety | Leave a comment

Lethal Superhighway Design

Posted on May 13, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Gaz545 – who also blogs at Croydon Cyclist – has recently posted this excellent video, showing a particularly poorly thought-through section of ‘Superhighway’. Notice how the blue paint encourages cyclists to progress down the side of vehicles, at a point where the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling policy, Infrastructure, London, Road safety, Transport for London | Leave a comment

More on the ‘primary position’

Posted on May 12, 2011 by aseasyasriding

(This is a follow-up to this post.) UK cyclists are a curiously self-flagellating species. The cyclist in this recent video is subject to not one, not two, but three ‘left hooks’ in succession, from a series of motorists who cut … Continue reading →

Posted in Dangerous driving, Road safety, Transport policy | 1 Comment

It’s the UN’s ‘Decade of Action for Road Safety’, brought to you by Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button

Posted on May 11, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Today marks the start of the UN’s ‘Decade of Action for Road Safety.’ The campaign was launched in the UK by the serial speeder Jenson Button (bonus points for being caught speeding in three different countries, surely?), and the reckless … Continue reading →

Posted in Helmets, Road safety, Transport policy, UN | 3 Comments

The ‘primary position’ – putting UK cyclists between a rock and a hard place

Posted on May 9, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Don’t worry if a driver is beeping at you. In fact, it’s good. It means the driver is aware of your presence, and has seen you. I may not have the wording exactly right, but the above is the essence … Continue reading →

Posted in Cyclecraft, Cycling policy, Road safety, Transport policy | 46 Comments