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November 2015

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Stop Killing Cyclists Die-in

TfL Offices, Blacfriars Rd, London. Fri 27 Nov 2015

  
 
 Deborah Willemen, a Belgian mother who was knocked off her bicycle a few months after moving to London,

 want's safe streets she can cycle with her children

 Professor Brendan Delaney, a doctor working in London speaks about pollution from traffic on London streets, which kills 7000 a year.

 Victoria Lebrec who was run over by a skip lorry in December 2014 and her life saved when London Air Ambulance doctors stopped
the bleeding but later had her left leg amputated at the Royal London calls for more to be done to make cycling safer.

 Peter Hartley, Chair of Westminster Living Streets calls on Westminster to do more to prevent pedestrians and cyclists
being killed - and waves a letter to the Evening Standard by a motorist opposed to safer roads for cyclists.

 Cycling campaigner Alex Raha reads a funeral poem

 

 carlett Brady Hughes, age 8, reads the names of the 21 cyclists killed on London streets in the last two years

 
 
The die-in starts 

Stewards have stopped traffic so cyclists can lie down. Police stand and watch  

There are flashing rear red lights on each of the 21 coffins in front of the TfL offices 

All traffic at the jucnction is brought to a halt 

 

 

 

 

 

Donnachadh McCarthy 

 

 

 

A skeleton 

 
   

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