Much of the street research for LondonRemembers is done by bike. 820 cyclists were killed or seriously injured in 2009 on roads in Britain. Many of these deaths are avoidable. Many of the drivers of the motor vehicles involved received minimal, if any, legal penalty.
2012 (12 mins).
This page, 'cyclist deaths', links together all the memorials that we have found for cyclists killed on London roads - too many.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Cyclist deaths
Born Lincolnshire. Royal Navy. Governor of Tasmania 1836-43. where there is also a statue. Left England in 1845 leading an expedition of 2 ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to voyage the last unnav...
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page.
Construction worker killed in the fatal accident at Crystal Palace.
Weightlifting coach and wrestler. Also known as Yakov, he was born in Poland. During WW2Â he took part in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Along with ten other team members, he was murdered by Palestinia...
Person, Sport / Games, Tragedy, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Poland
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