Price of cyclist accidents on London s roads on the climb

The price of cycling deaths or serious injuries on London's roads has improved since 2010, according to stats from Transport for London.

The number of cyclists killed or seriously injured per million journeys was 2.37 in 2010, but increased to 3.17 by 2012.
London Assembly member Jenny Jones stated the streets were "not finding better".
The mayoris cycling commissioner said steps were being taken to enhance safety.

Cycling programme Jenny Jones, Green Party London Assembly member, said the mayor of travel germany blog (click through the next page) London, Boris Johnson, should concentrate on purchasing cycling infrastructure, from better junctions to the separation of competitors from HGVs.
"This mayor has created lots of promises to cyclists, but has under-delivered time and time again," she explained.
"He's refused to be controlled by wise guidance from regional cycling campaigners and he still is not."

The London Vacation Report 6 also showed the number of cycle journeys increased by 90,000 each day between 2008 and 2012.
Tim Gilligan, the mayoris cycling commissioner explained: "How many cyclist fatalities in 2013 was the identical as in 2012 and less than in 2011, despite a growth in routine journeys over that point.
"The increase in the number of severe incidents is the key reason why we relaunched the cycling process 10 weeks ago, a lot more than trebling spending and committing to much higher levels of supply, including several segregated lanes and junctions."

He added that most of the improvements would take longer than 10 months to provide.
'Traumatic street demise' Katharine Giles was the second cyclist to be killed in 2013 The figures emerged as a coroner discovered that a cyclist who died in Victoria last summer was killed in a crash with a tipper truck.
Katharine Giles was biking to work at University College London (UCL) when she was involved with an accident on 5 September.

It happened through the morning rush hour in the junction between Victoria Street and Development Street.
Witnesses in the inquest said the researcher and lecturer was in a HGV blind spot on Victoria Road when the incident happened.
The lorry was indicating he was sounding and its audio warning was turning left, the inquest was told.
The coroner recorded a verdict of distressing road-death.

Doctor Giles was the 2nd biker to be killed in 2013.
In total 14 competitors died on London's streets this past year, seven that required heavy goods vehicles.